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Good stories don’t magically appear on the page. Someone grinds them out. In this encore edition of Doing What Works I tell you how I wrote my second book, why I didn’t want to, and why I’m glad I did.
Here are your show notes…
Left for Dead: A Second Life after Vietnam is the memoir of Jon Hovde.
Staying the Course: A Runner’s Toughest Race is the memoir of Dick Beardsley.
Platoon helped me get in the mood to write Left for Dead.
There’s a difference between a story and a sequence of events; the writers of South Park know!
There’s no such thing as writer’s block.
The Summer of Ordinary Ways “wrings intensity,” as one person put it, “from the seemingly mundane.”
  continue reading

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Manage episode 503836636 series 2775812
Content provided by Doing What Works. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by Doing What Works or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://podcastplayer.com/legal.
Good stories don’t magically appear on the page. Someone grinds them out. In this encore edition of Doing What Works I tell you how I wrote my second book, why I didn’t want to, and why I’m glad I did.
Here are your show notes…
Left for Dead: A Second Life after Vietnam is the memoir of Jon Hovde.
Staying the Course: A Runner’s Toughest Race is the memoir of Dick Beardsley.
Platoon helped me get in the mood to write Left for Dead.
There’s a difference between a story and a sequence of events; the writers of South Park know!
There’s no such thing as writer’s block.
The Summer of Ordinary Ways “wrings intensity,” as one person put it, “from the seemingly mundane.”
  continue reading

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