Carter Wilson's Making It Up

By Carter Wilson

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Making It Up is an unscripted conversation series about the messy reality of being a writer.


Each episode is a deep, unplanned conversation with writers at every stage of the journey. New York Times bestselling authors. Award winners. Debut novelists just getting started. No prepared questions. No talking points. Just two people following the conversation wherever it leads.


We talk about where stories really come from. Childhood influences. Fear. Luck. Loss. Discipline. Doubt. The highs, the lows, and the long stretches in between that rarely get talked about.


At the end of every episode, we put the philosophy into practice. We choose a random sentence from a random book and use it to create an impromptu short story. No prep. No outline. Just making something out of nothing.


Because that is the job.
And that is the point.


 Visit Carter at www.carterwilson.com.


Episode Date
Making It Up with Radha Lin Chaddah, author of And the Ancestors Sing
Aug 11, 2026
Making It Up with Steve Cavanagh, author of the Eddie Flynn novels
Aug 06, 2026
Making It Up with Eriq La Salle, author of Laws of Annihilation
Jul 28, 2026
Making It Up with Andromeda Romano-Lax, author of What Boys Learn
Jul 25, 2026
Making It Up with Corinne Sullivan, author of Yours Always
Jul 15, 2026
Making It Up with Rachael Ramas, author of Objects in Lakes
Jul 06, 2026
Making It Up with Ellery Adams, author of Invasive Species
Jul 03, 2026
Making It Up with Angie Kim, author of Happiness Falls
Jun 25, 2026
Making It Up with Lauren Nossett, author of The Resemblance
Jun 16, 2026
Making it Up with Katrina Denza, author of Burner and Other Stories
Jun 08, 2026
Making it Up with Tracy Clark, author of the Detective Harriet Foster series
Jun 02, 2026
Making it Up with Lee Goldberg, author of Murder By Design
May 28, 2026
Making It Up with Kate White, author of I Came Back For You
May 17, 2026
Making It Up with Emily Carpenter, author of A Spell for Saints and Sinners
May 11, 2026
Making It Up with Jeffrey James Higgins, author of the Nathan Burke thriller series
May 04, 2026
Making it Up with Daniel G. Miller, author of The Orphanage By The Lake
Apr 27, 2026
Making it Up with Marlee Bush, author of Whispers of Dead Girls
Apr 21, 2026
Making It Up with Lisa Unger, author of Served Him Right
Apr 13, 2026
Making It Up with Michael Kardos, author of Quick Change
Apr 05, 2026
Making It Up with Amy Meyerson, author of The Water Lies
Mar 27, 2026
Making It Up with Ryan Steck and Simon Gervais, authors of The Second Son
Mar 23, 2026
Making It Up with Jen J. Danna/Sara Driscoll, author of the FBI K-9s thriller series
Mar 15, 2026
Making It Up with Clémence Michallon, author of The Quiet Tenant
Mar 07, 2026
Making It Up with Joseph Finder, author of The Oligarch's Daughter
Mar 02, 2026
Making It Up with Gregg Hurwitz, author of the Orphan X series
Feb 20, 2026
Making It Up with Wendy Walker, author of Blade
Feb 13, 2026
Making It Up with Matthew Sullivan, author of Midnight in Soap Lake
Feb 07, 2026
Making It Up with Tod Goldberg, author of Only Way Out
Jan 30, 2026
Making It Up with Jennifer Fawcett, author of Keep This for Me
Jan 23, 2026
Making It Up with Danielle Girard, author of Pinky Swear
Jan 16, 2026
Making It Up with Courtney Psak, author of The Hostess
Jan 11, 2026
Making It Up with Chris Pavone, author of The Doorman
Jan 07, 2026
Making It Up with I.S. Berry, author of The Peacock and the Sparrow
Jan 05, 2026
Making It Up with Kika Dorsey, author of As Joan Approaches Infinity
Dec 31, 2025
Making It Up with Casey Sherman, author of Blood in the Water
Dec 27, 2025
Making It Up with Alma Katsu, author of Fiend
Dec 23, 2025
Making It Up with Andrew Bourelle, author of Shot Clock
Dec 19, 2025
Making It Up with Christina Baker Kline and Anne Burt, author of Please Don't Lie
Dec 15, 2025
Making It Up with Cynthia Swanson, author of Anyone But Her
Dec 04, 2025
Making It Up with Elena Taylor, author of The Haunting of Emily Grace
Nov 30, 2025
Making It Up with Harry Hunsicker, author of The Life and Death of Rose Doucette
Nov 21, 2025
Making It Up with Aime Austin, author of the Casey Cort series
Nov 14, 2025
Making It Up with Scott Graham, author of Grand Canyon Sacrifice
Nov 07, 2025
Making It Up with Andrea Bartz, author of The Last Ferry Out
Oct 31, 2025
Making It Up with Lindy Ryan, author of Dollface
Oct 24, 2025
Making It Up with Jeffrey Konvitz, author of The Circus of Satan
Oct 09, 2025
Making It Up with Michelle Jabès Corpora, author of His Face is the Sun
Oct 03, 2025
Making It Up with Joe Hart, author of Wyndclyffe
Sep 26, 2025
Making It Up with Dwayne Goetzel
Sep 20, 2025
Making It Up with Leigh Dunlap, author of Bless Your Heart
Sep 12, 2025
Making It Up with Lori Roy, author of The Final Episode
Sep 04, 2025
Making It Up with Robert Bailey, author of The Boomerang
Aug 29, 2025
Making It Up with Mailan Doquang, author of Blood Rubies
Aug 22, 2025
Making It Up with Kaira Rouda, author of We Were Never Friends
Aug 15, 2025
Making It Up with Laura Resau, author of The Alchemy of Flowers
Aug 01, 2025
Making It Up with Bryan Gruley, author of Bitterfrost
Jul 24, 2025
Making It Up with Ellen Birkett Morris, author of Beware the Tall Grass
Jul 17, 2025
Making It Up with A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
Jul 10, 2025
Making It Up with Matt Goldman, author of The Murder Show
Jul 03, 2025
Making It Up with Joshua Moehling, author of A Long Time Gone
Jun 21, 2025
Making It Up with Traci Abramson, author of Royal Intrigue
Jun 13, 2025
Making It Up with Cynthia Pelayo, author of Vanishing Daughters
Jun 06, 2025
Making It Up with Bob Johnson, author of The Continental Divide
May 30, 2025
Making It Up with G.T. Karber, creator of Murdle
May 24, 2025
Making It Up with Emily Carpenter, author of Burying the Honeysuckle Girls
May 16, 2025
Making It Up with Lori Brand, author of Bodies to Die For
May 08, 2025
Making It Up with Lisa Williamson Rosenberg, author of Mirror Me
Apr 25, 2025
Making It Up with Douglas Brunt, author of The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel
Apr 18, 2025
Making It Up with James L'Etoile, author of River of Lies
Apr 11, 2025
Making It Up with Tess Gerritsen, author of The Surgeon
Apr 04, 2025
Making It Up with Andrew DeYoung, author of Stay Away From Him
Mar 29, 2025
Making It Up with Sydney Leigh, author of Peril in Pink
Mar 20, 2025
Making It Up with Meredith Lyons, author of A Dagger of Lightning
Mar 17, 2025
Making It Up with Allyson Ryan and Patrick Zeller, audiobook narrators for Tell Me What You Did
Mar 07, 2025
Making It Up with Charlotte Vassell, author of The In Crowd
Feb 27, 2025
Making It Up with Kyle Prue, author of How To Piss Off Men
Feb 21, 2025
Making It Up with Chad Boudreaux, author of Homecoming Queen
Feb 13, 2025
Making It Up with Midge Raymond and John Yunkers, authors of Devils Island
Feb 08, 2025
Making It Up with Barbara Nickless, author of The Drowning Game
Jan 31, 2025
Making It Up with Sandra Block, author of The Bachelorette Party
Jan 23, 2025
Making It Up with Emily Jon Tobias, author of Monarch: Stories
Jan 17, 2025
Making It Up with Pamela Statz, author of Thorn City
Jan 09, 2025
Making It Up with Alex Kenna, author of Burn this Night
Jan 03, 2025
Making It Up with Georgia Jeffries, author of The Younger Girl
Dec 27, 2024
Making It Up with Rebecca McKenna, author of Don't Forget the Girl
Dec 20, 2024
Making It Up with Elise Hart Kipness, author of Dangerous Play
Dec 12, 2024
Making It Up with Brad Parks, author of The Boundaries We Cross
Dec 06, 2024
Making It Up with Edward Hamlin, author of Sonata in Wax
Nov 22, 2024
Making It Up with Libby Cudmore, author of Negative Girl
Nov 14, 2024
Making It Up with Jen Ruiz, author of 12 Trips in 12 Months
Nov 07, 2024
Making It Up with Gina DeMillo Wagner, author of Forces of Nature
Nov 03, 2024
Making It Up with Barbara Feigin, author of My American Dream: A Journey from Fascism to Freedom
Oct 25, 2024
Making It Up with Karen Dionne, author of The Marsh King's Daughter
Oct 17, 2024
Making It Up with Lisa Gardner, author of Still See You Everywhere
Oct 10, 2024
Making It Up with Erin Adams, author of Jackal
Oct 03, 2024
Making It Up with J.D. Barker, author of Behind A Closed Door
Sep 26, 2024
Making It Up with Lauren Thomas, author of You Shouldn't Be Here
Sep 19, 2024
Making It Up with Elka Ray, author of A Friend Indeed
Sep 12, 2024
Making It Up with John DeDakis, author of Enemies Domestic
Sep 06, 2024
Making It Up with Lori Roy, author of Lake County
Aug 30, 2024
Making It Up with Mary Bly (Eloisa James), author of Viscount in Love
Aug 22, 2024
Making It Up with Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh, authors of Echo Road
Aug 16, 2024
Making It Up with Erica Wright, author of Hollow Bones
Aug 09, 2024
Making It Up with Jeffery Deaver and Isabella Maldonado, authors of Fatal Intrusion
Aug 03, 2024
Making It Up with Marc Guggenheim, author of In Any Lifetime
Jul 25, 2024
Making It Up with Mary Adkins, author of Palm Beach
Jul 18, 2024
Making It Up with Dean Monti, author of The Monosexual
Jul 04, 2024
Making It Up with Victoria Helen Stone, author of Follow Her Down
Jun 27, 2024
Making It Up with Aimie Runyan, author of Mademoiselle Eiffel
Jun 21, 2024
Making It Up with Kimberly Giarratano, author of Devil in Profile
Jun 13, 2024
Making It Up with Matt Scott, author of the Surviving the Lion's Den trilogy
Jun 06, 2024
Making It Up with Louise Doughty, author of A Bird in Winter
May 25, 2024
Making It Up with Tim Booth, author of When I Died for the First Time
May 15, 2024
Making It Up with Christopher Reich, author of Matterhorn
May 10, 2024
Making It Up with Danny Cherry Jr., author of The Pike Boys
May 04, 2024
Making It Up with Peter Blauner, author of Picture in the Sand
Apr 28, 2024
Making It Up with Caroline Cleveland, author of When Cicadas Cry
Apr 19, 2024
Making It Up with Diego Báez, author of Yaguareté White
Apr 12, 2024
Making It Up with Jeff Hoffmann, author of Like It Never Happened
Apr 04, 2024
Making It Up with Peg Tyre, author of Strangers in the Night
Mar 29, 2024
Making It Up with Araminta Hall, author of One of the Good Guys
Mar 21, 2024
Making It Up with Joe and Kasey Lansdale, authors of The Case of the Bleeding Wall
Mar 15, 2024
Making It Up with L.R. Jones, author of The Wedding Party
Mar 07, 2024
Making It Up with Matt Coyle, author of the Rick Cahill series
Mar 01, 2024
Making It Up with Audrey Gale, author of The Human Trial
Feb 24, 2024
Making It Up with Katherine Howe, author of A True Account
Feb 16, 2024
Making It Up with Boyd and Beth Morrison, authors of The Last True Templar
Feb 08, 2024
Making It Up with Sara DiVello, author of Broadway Butterfly
Feb 02, 2024
Making it Up with Hailey Piper, author of Cruel Angels Past Sundown
Jan 24, 2024
Making It Up with Abbott Kahler, author of Where You End
Jan 17, 2024
Making It Up with Kathleen Willett, author of Anything For A Friend
Jan 12, 2024
Making It Up with Emily Smith, author of You Always Come Back
Jan 05, 2024
Making It Up with Elise Hart Kipness, author of Lights Out
Dec 29, 2023
Making It Up with Martin Clark, author of The Plinko Bounce
Dec 22, 2023
Making It Up with Erin Hoover, author of No Spare People
Dec 15, 2023
Making It Up with Stephen Michaud, author of Robert’s Story
Dec 07, 2023
Making It Up with Edward Cahill, author of Disorderly Men
Dec 01, 2023
Making It Up with Hannah Nicole Maehrer, author of Assistant to the Villain
Nov 16, 2023
Making It Up with Carol Dunbar, author of A Winter’s Rime
Nov 03, 2023
Making It Up with Heather Levy, author of Hurt For Me
Oct 26, 2023
Making It up with Amy Weinland Daughters, author of Dear Dana
Oct 12, 2023
Making It Up goes live, with R. Alan Brooks, Emily Littlejohn, Erika T. Wurth
Oct 09, 2023
Making It Up with Michael Katz Krefeld, author of Darkness Calls
Sep 29, 2023
Making It Up with Carl Vonderau, author of Saving Myles
Sep 21, 2023
Making It Up with Chris Riley, author of The Broken Pines
Sep 14, 2023
Making It Up with Lindsay Cameron, author of No One Needs to Know
Sep 07, 2023
Making It Up with Javier Castillo, author of The Snow Girl
Aug 31, 2023
Making It Up with Del Chatterson, author of Merger Maniac
Aug 17, 2023
Making It Up with M.P. Woodward, author of Dead Drop
Aug 11, 2023
Making It Up with Aimie Runyan, author of A Bakery in Paris
Aug 03, 2023
Making It Up with Eliza Knight, author of Starring Adele Astaire
Jul 27, 2023
Making It Up with Bryn Turnbull, author of The Paris Deception
Jul 13, 2023
Making It Up with A.G. Riddle, author of The Extinction Trials
Jul 06, 2023
Making It Up with Alisa Valdes, author of Hollow Beasts
Jun 29, 2023
Making It Up with Rachael Herron, author of Hush Little Baby
Jun 26, 2023
Making It Up with Christopher Flory, author of The Savior
Jun 19, 2023
Making It Up with Don Bently, author of Forgotten War
Jun 08, 2023
Making It Up with Kara Thomas, author of Out of the Ashes
Jun 05, 2023
Making It Up with Tessa Wegert, author of The Kind to Kill
May 25, 2023
Making It Up with Lauren Thoman, author of I’ll Stop the World
May 18, 2023
Making It Up with Rebecca Ann Keller, author of You Should Have Known
May 11, 2023
Making It Up with Ciera McElroy, author of Atomic Family
May 04, 2023
The Gentle Novelist Writing Retreat
Apr 20, 2023
Making It Up with Nancy Stohlman, author of After the Rapture
Apr 20, 2023
Making It Up with Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of The House Guest
Apr 17, 2023
Making It Up with Samantha M. Bailey, author of Watch Out for Her
Apr 06, 2023
Making It Up with Kimberly Giarratano, author of Death of A Dancing Queen
Mar 30, 2023
Making It Up with Veronica Henry, author of The Foreign Exchange
Mar 27, 2023
Making It Up with Tracy Clark, author of Hide
Mar 16, 2023
Making It Up with Kimberly Belle, author of The Personal Assistant
Mar 09, 2023
Making It Up with Rebecca Kelley, author of No One Knows Us Here
Mar 03, 2023
Making It Up with David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of Winter Counts
Feb 23, 2023
Making It Up with Lexie Elliott, author of Bright and Deadly Things
Feb 16, 2023
Making It Up with Chad Boudreaux, author of Scavenger Hunt
Feb 09, 2023
Making It Up with Mark Stevens, author of The Fireballer
Feb 02, 2023
Making It Up with Nuzo Onoh, author of A Dance for the Dead
Jan 26, 2023
Making It Up with Ronald Kelly, author of Southern Fried & Horrified
Jan 12, 2023
Making It Up with Jennifer Givhan, author of River Woman, River Demon
Dec 29, 2022
Making It Up with Carla Damron, author of The Orchid Tattoo
Dec 15, 2022
Making It Up with Katie Sise, author of The Break
Dec 01, 2022
Making It Up with Barbara Nickless, author of Dark of Night
Nov 18, 2022
Making It Up with Jeffrey Wilson, author of Dark Fall
Nov 10, 2022
Making It Up with Samuel Octavius, author of The Echo Chamber
Nov 03, 2022
Making It Up with Jonathan Woods, author of Hog Wild
Oct 27, 2022
Making It Up with Kelly Ford, author of Real Bad Things
Oct 20, 2022
Making It Up with Sam McAlister, author of Scoops
Oct 13, 2022
Making It Up with Wendy Walker, author of American Girl
Oct 07, 2022
Making It Up with Leanne Sparks, author of The Wrong Woman
Sep 29, 2022
Making It Up with Laurie R. King, author of Back to the Garden
Sep 26, 2022
Making It Up with David Ellis, author of Look Closer
Sep 08, 2022
Making It Up with Russell James, author of Quest for the Queen’s Temple
Sep 01, 2022
Making It Up with James Byrne, author of The Gatekeeper
Aug 25, 2022
Making It Up with Pip Drysdale, author of The Next Girl
Aug 18, 2022
Making It Up with Faye Snowden, author of A Killing Rain
Aug 11, 2022
Making It Up with Clare Mackintosh, author of The Last Party
Aug 04, 2022
Making It Up with Joey Hartstone, author of The Local
Jul 28, 2022
Making It Up with Ashley Winstead, author of The Last Housewife
Jul 21, 2022
Making It Up with Hannah Mary McKinnon, author of Never Coming Home
Jul 11, 2022
Making It Up with Hilde Lysiak, author of Hilde on the Record
Jun 27, 2022
Making It Up with Elle Marr, author of Strangers We Know
Jun 20, 2022
Making It Up with Jess Montgomery, author of The Echoes
Jun 06, 2022
Making It Up with D.P. Lyle, author of Double Blind
May 28, 2022
Making It Up with Ananda Lima, author of Mother/land
May 23, 2022
Making It Up with Katrina Monroe, author of They Drown Our Daughters
May 12, 2022
Making It Up with Katie Lattari, author of Dark Things I Adore
May 04, 2022
Making It Up with Erica Ferencik, author of Girl In Ice
Apr 20, 2022
Making it Up with J.T. Ellison, author of Her Dark Lies
Apr 06, 2022
Making It Up with Lara Elena Donnelly, author of Base Notes
Mar 23, 2022
Making It Up with Aaron Philip Clark, author of Under Color of Law
Mar 07, 2022
Making It Up with Alex Finlay, author of Every Last Fear
Feb 21, 2022
Making It Up with Daniel Jude Miller, author of Monsters in Manhattan
Feb 14, 2022
Making It Up with Allen Eskens, author of The Stolen Hours
Feb 07, 2022
Making It Up with Lynne Griffin, author of The Dangers of an Ordinary Night
Jan 31, 2022
Making It Up with Amanda Kabak, author of Upended
Jan 24, 2022
Making It Up with Gabrielle St. George, author of How to Murder a Marriage
Dec 21, 2021
Making It Up with Yasmin Angoe, author of Her Name Is Knight
Dec 13, 2021
Making It Up with Dr. Ian Smith, author of Wolf Point
Dec 06, 2021
Making It Up with Drew Magary, author of The Night the Lights Went Out
Nov 29, 2021
Making It Up with Alverne Ball, author of Blue Religion
Nov 22, 2021
Making It Up with Farrah Rochon, author of The Boyfriend Project
Nov 15, 2021
Making It Up with Robert Dugoni, author of The World Played Chess
Nov 08, 2021
Making It Up with Matthew FitzSimmons, author of Constance
Nov 03, 2021
Making It Up with SF Kosa, author of The Night We Burned
Oct 25, 2021
Making It Up with Maureen Johnson, author of the Box in the Woods
Oct 18, 2021
Making It Up with Lemony Snicket, author of Poison for Breakfast
Oct 11, 2021
Making It Up with SA Cosby, author of Razorblade Tears
Oct 04, 2021
Making It Up with Stuart Turton, author of The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Sep 21, 2021
Making It Up with Adrian Goldsworthy, author of The Fort
Sep 14, 2021
Making It Up with Barb Webb, author of Getting Laid
Sep 06, 2021
Making It Up with Brad Parks, author of Unthinkable
Aug 27, 2021
Making It Up with Xio Axelrod, author of The Girl With Stars In Her Eyes
Aug 19, 2021
Carter's Monthly Newsletter - Audiobook Edition!
Aug 12, 2021
Making It Up with Clare Whitfield, author of People of Abandoned Character
Aug 12, 2021
Making It Up with Sabrina Jeffries, author of Undercover Duke
Aug 05, 2021
Making It Up with Mark Sullivan, author of The Last Green Valley
Jul 29, 2021
Making It Up with Erika Engelhaupt, author of Gory Details
Jul 23, 2021
Making It Up with Emily Bleeker, author of What's Left Unsaid
Jul 13, 2021
Making it Up with Julia Heaberlin, author of We Are All the Same in the Dark
Jul 04, 2021
Making It Up with Graham Hurley, author of Last Flight to Stalingrad
Jul 04, 2021
Making it Up with Steven James, author of Synapse
Jun 28, 2021
Making It Up with Mark Stevens, author of The Melancholy Howl
Jun 21, 2021
Making it Up with Lynne Constantine, author of The Silent Conspiracy
Jun 11, 2021
Making It Up with K.J. Howe, author of Skyjack
Jun 06, 2021
Making It Up with Sean Eads, author of Lord Byron's Prophecy
May 30, 2021
Making it Up with David Bell, author of Kill All Your Darlings
May 21, 2021
Making it Up - Official Trailer
Apr 27, 2021
Making it Up with Julie Clark, author of The Last Flight
Apr 12, 2021
Making It Up with Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls
Apr 12, 2021
Making it Up with Joe Clifford, author of The Shadow People
Apr 11, 2021