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Podcast | Love Unscripted | Love in Full Color: The Emotional Landscape
This week on Alchemy, Tim and LeeAnna crack open the hood of modern romance to show us what love looks like when it’s firing on all cylinders… or stalling dramatically on the freeway of emotional dysfunction.
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5 days ago1 min read
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Writer's Prompts | Love in Full Color: The Emotional Landscape
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Love Unscripted | Love in Full Color: The Emotional Landscape"
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5 days ago2 min read
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The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Love Unscripted | Love in Full Color: The Emotional Landscape"
Tim advises writers to build characters who are emotionally complex, full of contradictions, and hopefully not emotionally totaled by chapter three. He urges you to give your characters engines too - emotional ones, with inputs and outputs. Let them stall, restart, sputter, maybe explode.

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5 days ago4 min read
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The Snark | Karol Nawrocki's Masterclass in Political Fiction
The more improbable the situation, the more it often rings true to life.

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May 54 min read
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The Snark | When Confidence is Really Just a Cheap Disguise
Look, let’s be honest. Life’s full of narcissists, co-dependents, and all their messy, twisted relationships.

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Apr 284 min read
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The Snark | Wake Up, You Snowflakes: Torture Your Readers
In short: torture your readers—they’ll love you for it.

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Apr 214 min read
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The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Join Club Confusion… Contradictions and the Human Condition"
So here’s the challenge: create characters who have no idea how to live with their paradoxes—because, spoiler alert, neither do we!

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Apr 174 min read
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Podcast | Welcome to Club Confusion… Contradictions and the Human Condition
Get ready for a wild ride of snark, bad decisions, and surprisingly insightful moments (we promise, they’re in there somewhere).
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Apr 171 min read
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Writer's Prompts | Welcome to Club Confusion… Contradictions and the Human Condition
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Welcome to Club Confusion"
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Apr 172 min read
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The Snark | An Emotional Autopsy in Three Minutes and Fifty Seconds
Because at some point in life, we all stand in a metaphorical phone booth, trying to make peace with a past that doesn’t give a shit if we’re ready.

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Apr 125 min read
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Writer's Prompts | Panic Mode: Activated
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Panic Mode: Activated!"
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Apr 102 min read
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The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Panic Mode: Activated"
Embrace the panic, and remember: chaos makes for unforgettable stories.

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Apr 104 min read
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Short n' Sweet Podcast | Panic Mode: Activated
In this Alchemy Short n’ Sweet episode, Tim and LeeAnna delve into the joy of a crisis made so much worse by the person who panics!
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Apr 101 min read
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The Snark | Codependency, Clarity, and One Hell of a Legacy
Write your mess. Write your truth. Write what hurts. Someone out there needs it more than you know

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Apr 74 min read
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The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Small Talk, Big Deal"
“Small Talk, Big Deal” turns the tiniest human interactions into a beautiful mess of psychology, awkwardness, danger, and longing.

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Apr 34 min read
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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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Mar 313 min read
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Writer's Prompts | Enter Stage Left
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Enter Stage Left"
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Feb 272 min read
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Writer's Prompts | Pressure Makes Diamonds... Or Dust
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Pressure Makes Diamonds... Or Dust"
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Feb 132 min read
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The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Pressure Makes Diamonds... Or Dust"
Fiction should be a mirror to our world’s darkest and lightest moments.

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Feb 133 min read
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Podcast | Pressure Makes Diamonds... Or Dust
The messy, chaotic world of people cracking under pressure—because let’s face it, life’s a pressure cooker, and sometimes the lid just pops!
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Feb 131 min read
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