Writing is something we both love but we also struggle with it at times. If you read our last blog post, you will know that we have decided to write 52 short stories this year. One. Per. Week. That seems doable, right? Your writing doesn’t need to be a short …
So long, 2021! We dealt with a lot of reading slumps, but that didn’t stop us from adding more books to our TBR list. Our reading goals for 2022 are going to look a little different, and they’re definitely going to involve the books we already own. Our writing goals …
Remember when we thought 2020 was the worst of it? Wow, we were ever wrong! Reading slumps, writing slumps, life slumps… Not really sure what 2022 will bring us but hopefully it’s better than this past year. *Knocks on wood.* Like many people, I turned to all things Marvel to …
If you’ve been following the podcast for awhile, you’ll know that we love memoirs. Back in January, Jette wrote about her Top 5 Memoir Books, so I decided I should add to that list with my own top five. Like Jette, I tend to be drawn to memoirs that will …
It’s time for another book club episode! Gen and Jette talk about their March/April book club selection—We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby. We talk about Irby’s pull-no-punches writing style, her ability to put herself out there in her writing, and how we could turn some of …
Gen and Jette talk about all kinds of writing with a wonderful guest. Kattie Thorndyke is a podcaster, engineer (with TWO Masters degrees), tea lover, technical writer, blogger, mom, and so many more things! Jette has been on Kattie’s podcast (The Otherwise Intelligent Woman) and now Kattie is returning the …
If you’re anything like us, your ‘to be read’ list is always growing, and the new year means a new stack of potential favourites. For 2021 we wanted to build on our reading and writing habits from 2020, so we set up a reading challenge for ourselves. (This blog post …
Looking back at 2020, I just kind of sigh and think, “Well, that happened.” It’s been a weird one, not just because of the obvious challenges, both personal and collective, that we’ve all faced this year, but because it also had some really good moments tucked in amongst the bad. …
In Episode 56 Gen and Jette talk all things writing for National Novel Writing Month! We talk about books that inspire us, discovering what we like to write, and how making this podcast has helped us grow as writers. Congrats to the all the NaNoWriMo 2020 writers who hit their …
I deleted this first sentence at least ten times before settling on this one. Sometimes the words just don’t want to come. You can’t get them to arrange in a way that is satisfying. Sure, you can go back during edits to fix all the bits that came out stilted …
