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

Carrie Jones and Shaun Farrar

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

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.

Language: English
Type: podcast

Latest episodes(50)

1 Monotony Must Die: How to Keep Your Sentences Surprising
12 Feb 202515m
No Flat Writing A lot of writers will worry that their stories seem flat. There’s a reason that they are worrying about that and it’s one of the core elements of good writing. Ready? A lot of the…
2 Keep Writing
5 Feb 202514m
This week? This week has been a bit rough for me. But I am still writing. And we are still podcasting! Gasp! I am still doing this because I think that writers write. That’s it. That’s all there is to…
3 Why Are People Mean? And The Lowdown on Three Super Common Grammar Mistakes.
29 Jan 202520m
In our Random Thought, we talk about why people are mean. The link to our source is at the end of these notes. All you all, I (Carrie) am the WORST copyeditor for my own work. I’ll admit it and that’s…
4 Let's Talk The Sexy One-Sentence Summary
23 Jan 202511m
THE ONE SENTENCE SUMMARY Let’s be honest, here. Sometimes I throw the word “sexy” into a podcast title just to get Shaun to pay attention. But the one-sentence summary is kind of sexy. Over on the…
5 It's Okay To Dwell in the Negative Space
15 Jan 202518m
Wendy MacNaughton on her Substack Draw Together talked about negative space this week and she wrote, “Negative Space performs many functions: it focuses our eyes on the subject, it moves our eyes…
6 Do Our Brains Hurt Too Much to Think & Read?
7 Jan 202521m
And how we've blown off writing maxims to be successful There’s a feeling among many writers/bloggers/content creators that our brains are too overwhelmed by a high cognitive overload to want to read…
7 Happy Holidays!
25 Dec 20242m
Hey! It’s a quick happy holiday greeting from us. We took a quick pause in our celebrations to make the shortest podcast episode ever. We hope that you are having a wonderful holiday season. It snowed…
8 Flirt Your Eyelashes Off, Writers
19 Dec 202420m
SHAUN IS SICK! Gasp! He is never sick. But he is, so I've made the executive decision to replay/republish one of our most popular episodes from three years ago. Ready? Let's go! A quick web search for…
9 We improvised this podcast and you can tell
12 Dec 202416m
We improvised this podcast and you know what? You can kind of tell. It's all about making mistakes (a tiny bit about what holds some of us back about making people pay for our work) and we quickly…
10 Every Day Is a Whole New Life, Writers and Other Humans
5 Dec 202415m
So, recently, Vitaliy Katsenelson, CFA, who is a writer and investor had a Substack post that really resonated with me. And by recently, I mean yesterday. Anyway, in it Vitaliy said that “Each Day Is…

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