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On this episode, Kaitlyn is off on an important mission, and it's just Ellie and Melissa today talking Dark Fantasy.

On this week's episode, we take a stroll down memory lane as we reflect on our first projects - and remember just how bad they were. We discuss how we got better at writing, we discuss why its okay for you to cringe at your first projects, and we talk about what we learned from those first projects.

On this week's episode, we talk how to write Character Motivation through Action. A character doesn't simply speak the truth (rarely does anyone), but a character does show who they are through their actions. We discuss different techniques, use examples of when motivation was shown brilliantly, and dig into why showing the character's internal motivations through actions is preferable to making statements in dialogue or internal monologues.

On this week's episode of Royalty Free, we deep dive into a concept Ellie learned called Writers Mythos. Every writer draws upon personal experience, themes, and subconscious childhood informative years as to what, and how, we write. She asks the hard questions and we have to identify what is deep inside us as to what has informed our writing over the years, and we learn a few things about ourselves along the way. Join us as we discuss how the writer's mythos can be used to better your writing, and how it can be abused if it isn't reined in.

In this week's episode, we will be discussing character deaths. We talk about why you would want to kill a character, how to do it right, and also, how not to kill a character that will leave your readers angry, confused, or betrayed by your work. Meaningful deaths vs. meaningless deaths, and how to use both because both are useful techniques, you just need to know when to use them.

In this week's episode, we are recording at Authorpalooza in front of a live audience! So exciting. Authorpalooza is an event our public library hosts with local authors giving readers and local writers a chance to interact and talk with each other. Today we will be discussing how identify your unique writing ability and harness it to create, then we take questions from the audience and cover everything from marketing, audience expectations, and branding. We had a blast at Authorpalooza, and our live audience was a dream to speak in front of. Thank you to everyone at the event, and remember, keep writing!

The dreaded writers block. According to Wikipedia it is a nonmedical condition, primarily associated with writing. But it can be so much more than that. The three of us decide to tackle all our top tips and tricks in overcoming writers block, as well as having emotional epiphanies regarding why writers block can be a chronic problem as well.

On this week's episode, we discuss how each of us create characters. We explain what kind of writers we are and how that translates to the different ways each of us create compelling characters. Do we stay 100% on topic? Eh, debatable. But, we do delve into how our unique needs as Discovery, Architect, and Gardener writers who each have varying needs craft characters from scratch and through hard rewrites, instinct, and fine-tuning, and not all in the same order. Take a peek into how you too can write characters you resonate with and will bring readers back for more. Does one type of writer resonate with you? Let us know!

On this week's episode, we shall discuss our literary family trees and how writers are shaped through the media they consume and how it influences the way people create. We begin by waxing poetic about J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, because we believe in honoring our grandparents first before beginning the climb up through the branches that shaped our unique writing talents and perspectives, and we discuss why it's important to write what you are drawn to.

Welcome to Royalty Free : A Writing Podcast with your hosts Kaitlyn King, Ellie Lerum, and Melissa M. Rivers. On this week's episode, we introduce ourselves: two published authors and a passionate (unpublished) writer who reminisce on how we met, the importance of a writing community, and memories of just how much the goblin digs through drawers to turn puns into gold. We are excited to begin our journey with you all in discussing how to write, how to become a storyteller, and definitely not how we thought all of us were weird when we first met each other. We hope to get to know you just as well along the way.