Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation

By Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar

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Join an internationally bestselling children's book author and her down-home husband and their dogs as they try to live a happy, better life by being happier, better people . You can use those skills in writing and vice versa. But we’re not perfect, just like our podcast. We’re cool with that.

Episode Date
Monotony Must Die: How to Keep Your Sentences Surprising
Feb 12, 2025
Keep Writing
Feb 05, 2025
Why Are People Mean? And The Lowdown on Three Super Common Grammar Mistakes.
Jan 29, 2025
Let’s Talk The Sexy One-Sentence Summary
Jan 23, 2025
It’s Okay To Dwell in the Negative Space
Jan 15, 2025
Do Our Brains Hurt Too Much to Think & Read?
Jan 07, 2025
Happy Holidays!
Dec 25, 2024
Flirt Your Eyelashes Off, Writers
Dec 19, 2024
We improvised this podcast and you can tell
Dec 12, 2024
Every Day Is a Whole New Life, Writers and Other Humans
Dec 05, 2024
How to Write Good Dialogue, Wallabies, and the Three-Beat Rule
Nov 12, 2024
Don’t hiss “I Love You.” Dialogue tag help and also throwing tacos isn’t cool
Nov 06, 2024
Do You Need a Beta Reader? Also, Georgia Police Say Don’t Copulate Outside McDonalds.
Oct 29, 2024
Why Fractured Families Drive Bestseller Success and He Sniffs Shoes!
Oct 17, 2024
Some features of the top selling novels
Oct 09, 2024
Want to be popular? Try a fish out of water
Oct 03, 2024
America as Paradise? Part of Making A Bestselling Novel?
Sep 27, 2024
Tick…Tick…Tick…Using Time to Make a Hit Novel
Sep 18, 2024
The Absolutely Simplest Plot Structure Ever
Sep 04, 2024
Show, Don’t Tell, Baby Face Cutie Pie Cutie
Aug 28, 2024
What Do Readers Want and the Kentucky Meat Shower Incident
Aug 20, 2024
The Elements of Storytelling: The Atomic Bomb Test
Aug 14, 2024
Five Quick Ways To Get Story Ideas
Aug 01, 2024
Setting Is SO FREAKING Important
Jul 25, 2024
Why Are Publishing Imprints Closing?
Jul 17, 2024
How To Write a Book Description That Gets Readers Tingling All Over
Jul 10, 2024
Pinch, there it is; googly eyes on the train, and yes, we are on our 37th career this year
Jul 02, 2024
Pinch Me, Baby, Talking Sexy to Writers
Jun 26, 2024
Just an Hour a Day Makes You More Bad Ass
Jun 18, 2024
Fighting, Commerce, and Ten-Cent Beer: Welcome to America and How to Frame Stories
Jun 06, 2024
Pot Plants Invade Wisconsin and Alternate That Plot Structure
May 30, 2024
No cow cuddles, no brain worms: Do you want to be happy?
May 16, 2024
Celestial Bodies, Sexy Knees and Story Structure via Robert McKee
May 08, 2024
Strangeness Free-for-all
May 04, 2024
How Not to be a Butt-Hole in Real Life and on the Page
May 01, 2024
Someone was sleeping outside her tent right next to her and how to make good writing habits
Apr 24, 2024
Strange Things In the Woods
Apr 20, 2024
Overcoming Negativity Bias & Toilet Rats
Apr 16, 2024
Why it is okay to read books you’ve already read and sometimes there’s an alligator in your kitchen
Apr 09, 2024
The Spiral of Ick and Quiet Winners: You Don’t Have to Flaunt Yourself to Succeed
Apr 04, 2024
Shaun went off the rails, but this was supposed to be about how do you sustain a career as an author
Mar 26, 2024
The Info Dump from Hell and How to Avoid Them and Also UFOs
Mar 19, 2024
Control Your Tells, Don’t Give In To the Passive
Mar 12, 2024
Author to Author: Chris Lynch Interview
Mar 05, 2024
LET’S SHOW YOU HOW SHOW VS TELL WORKS! Florida Man Poops on a Possum. We won’t show you that
Feb 27, 2024
RELATED TO MONSTERS AND WRITERS, GET INTO THE READER’S BRAIN IF YOU WANT TO SHOW AND NOT TELL
Feb 20, 2024
THE PROBLEM WITH ADVERBS & BEARS IN THE DOGGY DOOR: Let’s Show, Not Tell.
Feb 13, 2024
Show Us Your Wounds Writers and Stealing Seven King Cakes
Jan 30, 2024
Promises, Promises, Writers Promise Readers a Lot Plus a Screech Owl Chilling With Board Games
Jan 23, 2024
TROPE ME OUT, BABY: THE JUMP SCARE AND JANUARY IS A BLISSED OUT MONTH
Jan 16, 2024
Hate Hard, the Beer Poems, and Building the Life You Want
Dec 21, 2023
Dig Deep and Baby Owl in the Christmas Tree
Dec 15, 2023
WHY YOU WANT TO NOT USE ING VERBS AND IF I WERE A FISH IS THE BEST SONG EVER
Dec 08, 2023
Random Life Advice: Let’s Look At Each Other
Nov 30, 2023
A Simple Trick to Write Better: Get Rid of the Nods
Nov 16, 2023
Dive Into The Conflict and Make Your Book Blurb Sing
Nov 09, 2023
Baby bears are the new bison and how to write a book blurb
Nov 02, 2023
How to Make Your Book Blurb and Trippy Art About Dragon Intimacy How to Make a Shart Tantalizing?
Oct 27, 2023
Smuggling Giraffe Poop and Tell Me Lies, Tell Me Sweet Little Lies: Character Misbelief is Hot When You Write Novels
Oct 19, 2023
Happily Ever After or Happy For Now
Oct 12, 2023
Neither of Us are Lookers, Seventh Grade Insults and Character Misbeliefs
Sep 28, 2023
YOUR BIG LIE OR CHARACTER’S MISBELIEF
Sep 21, 2023
Strange Storm Things
Sep 16, 2023
Repurpose Spider Hairs, Licking Rocks, and Counting Dead People’s Nose Hairs: Logic Matters and so do the Ig Nobles
Sep 14, 2023
Is Your Life a Stand Alone or A Series?
Aug 29, 2023
Young Woman at the Cocktail Party
Aug 28, 2023
A Deep Dive Into The Strange
Aug 19, 2023
Brave Fart and Florida Man, Let’s Talk About How Anger is Not The Enemy for Writers and Other Humans
Aug 15, 2023
How to Stay Motivated Even If You’re a Writer
Aug 01, 2023
Feel the Awe and Get Through the Tough Times
Jul 25, 2023