001 - What is the Indie Writers Club?
Manage episode 438496680 series 3594590
Summary
In this episode, hosts Cara Clare and James Blatch introduce themselves and the purpose of the podcast. They discuss their backgrounds as authors and their experiences in the publishing industry. They also explain how listeners can get involved in the podcast through the Discord server and Facebook group. The hosts emphasize that the podcast will cover a wide range of topics related to writing, including craft, marketing, and mental wellbeing.
Keywords
Indie authors, podcast, introduction, publishing industry, writing craft, marketing, mental wellbeing.
Takeaways
- The Indie Writers Club podcast is a platform for indie authors and anyone interested in writing.
- The hosts, Cara Clare and James Blatch, have backgrounds in writing and publishing.
- Listeners can get involved in the podcast through the Discord server and Facebook group.
- The podcast will cover various topics related to writing, including craft, marketing, and mental wellbeing.
Titles
- Introducing the Indie Writers Club Podcast
- Covering a Wide Range of Writing Topics on the Podcast
Sound Bites
- "Hello, welcome to the Indie Writers Club."
- "I had this one novel, which I'd done a NaNoWriMo to get it going and had, I think I had something like 106,000 words a bit, but it was a complete mess."
- "Writing a novel is a strange thing. It's a complicated thing, writing novels."
Chapters
00:00Introducing the Indie Writers Club Podcast
01:41Writing Journeys: From NaNoWriMo to Published Novels
03:03The Complicated Process of Writing Novels
08:06Cara Clare's Journey into Writing and Self-Publishing
09:47The Democratization of Publishing and Indie Authors
13:52Exploring Various Writing Topics on the Podcast
10 episoder