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The Snark | When the Farmer Didn’t Look Up... The First Forrest Gump
Sometimes the most mythic moment in your book should be the leg of a drowning mythological figure waving from a distant corner.
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3 days ago3 min read
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The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Take Me to Your Writer | Part 3, The Weirdness Beneath Our Skin"
We go to places where reality, science, and horror collide in the weirdest ways. You won’t get this kind of weird anywhere else. Trust me.
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Mar 205 min read
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The Snark | The Ultimate Committee Work Triumph
The beauty of language doesn’t always come from sitting in your chair, sipping a nice tea, and waiting for divine inspiration to strike.
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Mar 174 min read
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The Snark | The Man Who Knew... Everything?
The beauty of fiction is that we get to explore those gaps, to discover the things we didn’t know we didn’t know.
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Mar 105 min read
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Podcast | Take Me to Your Writer | Part 3, The Weirdness Beneath Our Skin
Tim & LeeAnna dive into the “weirdness beneath our skin”—because, honestly, who doesn’t love a good rabbit hole?
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Feb 271 min read
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The Snark | Plot Twist: Your Story Needs More Exploding Kids
Here’s the deal: you can either play it safe, writing characters who are as boring as wet toast, or you can let your imagination run wild.
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Feb 243 min read
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The Snark | What the Egg? The Great Egg Surcharge of 2025
Find the "egg fee" in your next story, and see where it takes you.
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Feb 103 min read
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The Snark | Florida Man’s Beef, Butter, and Brain Fog
How could someone take a perfectly reasonable idea and turn it into something wildly, explosively, spectacularly out of hand?
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Feb 34 min read
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Writer's Prompts | When Reality Met Fiction: The Meet Cute
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "When Reality Met Fiction: The Meet Cute"
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Jan 301 min read
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The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "When Reality Met Fiction: The Meet Cute"
In the end, whether it's love or creative writing, the unexpected is what keeps us hooked.
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Jan 303 min read
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The Snark | Supercentenarians Aren’t Super... They’re Just Dead
The next time you're stuck for a plot, remember the absurdity of it all. The mistakes, the greed, the human error...
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Jan 273 min read
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The Snark | Chicken for Dessert?
Serve the Weird (it's okay, you'll see what I mean)
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Jan 223 min read
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