SWRT 258 | Love & Writing

June 16, 2022

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This week on the Story Works Round Table, Alida, Kathryn, & Robert discuss Love & Writing. How many ways can you write love and all its complications into your stories? We aren’t talking about romance here, just love in its many complex forms.

Story Works Round Table will now be coming out biweekly. Don’t worry, we aren’t going away, just changing the schedule. Use our off weeks to explore the catalog of over 250 conversations about craft at www.storyworkspodcast.com!

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What we talked about:

Why are we talking about love and writing? (1:30)

What types of love relationships have we tried? (2:55)

The obstacles of love. (5:17)

Like versus love. (7:05)

How do you write a family drama? (10:55)

The friendship stories. (15:15)

What about toxic love? (17:09)

Have we written without love? (18:35)

LINKS

Get Alida’s Writing Tips here.

Things we mentioned:

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
I Am Not A Serial Killer by Dan Wells
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Have thoughts, questions, other examples? Join the conversation at the Story Works Writers Facebook group.

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About Your Hosts

Alida Winternheimer is an award-winning author with an MFA in writing from Hamline University. She pursues her fervor for all things story as a writing coach, developmental editor, and teacher. Two of her short stories were nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She is the author of The Story Works Guide to Writing Fiction Series. Alida lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her Golden Retriever, Seva the Wonder Dog. She camps, bikes, and kayaks in her free time. Unless it’s winter, in which case she drinks chai by the fire. You can find more at www.alidawinternheimer.com.

Kathryn Arnold writes fantasy and anything else that sparks her creativity from her home in Kingston, Washington. She currently earns her living as an insurance underwriting assistant, where she also creates marketing and web copy. When not writing, she plays (and teaches) piano and keyboard in a band (or two), and is working on starting a ministry team with her husband. You can find Kathryn at www.skyfirewords.com.

Robert Scanlon was born in Australia, but whisked off to England when only a baby. After many years complaining about the weather, he did the sensible thing and moved back to Australia. Despite a career in the music industry, followed by decades teaching public speaking, Robert is an introvert who adores reading. Robert grew up on a diet of sci-fi masters, eventually discovering he had read the library’s entire science fiction section. Now he has to write his own. Robert is the author of Constellation, book one of the Blood Empire space opera series. Find out more at www.RobertScanlon.com