Steps to Story
The Steps to Story podcast with your host Nicole Meier, delivering weekly episodes (in short and accessible recordings!) that provide fiction writers with essential steps and strategies, so they can get clear on their big story idea, complete their manuscripts, and follow their novel writing dreams.
If you’re an emerging author seeking guidance, this podcast is for you!
Podcasting since 2024 • 38 episodes
Steps to Story
Latest Episodes
37. Strengthening Your Story's Bones: Customized Support for Story Structure
In today's episode of Steps to Story, we're diving into one of the most crucial aspects of storytelling, your story's structure. For those of you who follow me, you'll know that my mission is to help you blend story structure with the ...
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Episode 37
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36. Level Up Your Thriller, Mystery & Suspense with Samantha Skal & Kerry Savage
Suspense, mysteries and thrillers, oh my! Welcome to spooky season! Inside this episode of Steps to Story I'm talking with book coaches Samantha Skal and Kerry Savage about:The ideation of twistsKnowing your villain
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Episode 35
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35. Embrace the Drift: How Distraction Can Help Your WIP
Today I'm exploring how you can strategically allow yourself to be distracted and how those moments can open up new avenues in your novel writing. I'm uncovering six strategies that will not only give your brain a creative break, b...
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Episode 35
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34. [✨Big Announcement!] Author Platforms with Gretchen Schaffer
Are you an emerging author who's starting to think about your author platform? Or perhaps you're just dipping your toe into the world of publisher pitches and agent queries. 📚And let's be real, it can be a complicated journey. Right?<...
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Episode 34
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33. Recovering From Creative Burnout with Emily Golden & Rachel May
Do you know how to recognize the signs and symptoms of creative burnout? The state of physical, mental and emotional exhaustion that affects your creative work?Are you feeling like you need to step back and refill your creative well? ...
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Episode 33
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