My Imaginary Friends With L. Penelope

Yet another writing retreat, and celebrating the wins! Sponsor: YOU CAN HIDE by Rebecca Zanetti Mentioned: -  My signed paperback sale with coupon code: WINTER22 - https://shop.lpenelope.com - Apollycon 2022 preorder link - Devon House Jamaica - https://www.devonhouseja.com/ - DeepStash app - https://deepstash.com/ - Measure the gain instead of the gap - https://deepstash.com/idea/14774/measure-the-gain   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - https://myimaginaryfriends.net Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakim

Mentioned: - One Stop for Writers - Conflict Thesaurus - https://onestopforwriters.com/ - Michael Hauge’s 6 Stage Plot Structure (Character Journey) - https://writershelpingwriters.net/2018/08/the-six-stages-of-your-heros-character-arc/ - Write Your Novel from the Middle by James Scott Bell – https://amzn.to/35eBwLu - The Story Grid Foolscap Method - https://storygrid.com/using-the-foolscap-to-draft-your-next-novel/ - Enneagrams - https://www.crystalknows.com/enneagram/types - The Science of Storytelling by Will Storr – https://amzn.to/3wywbLf - HB90 Bootcamp registration open until December 11 - Plan your quarter in 2023 - https://heartbreathings.teachable.com/courses/hb90-bootcamp?affcode=145068_ffrxnd9f  The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscri

Mentioned: - Jane Friedman Electric Speed newsletter - https://janefriedman.ac-page.com/jf-espeed-30 - Opal HD web camera - https://opalcamera.com/ - Save the Cat Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody – https://amzn.to/3xf7TFV  - Whimsical - online whiteboard software - https://whimsical.com/ - My Save The Cat Whimsical template - https://lpen.co/stc-whimsical - Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers - http://www.bsfwriters.com/ - Galaxy's Edge magazine - https://galaxysedge.com - Becca Syme kickstarter (ended) - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/beccasyme/the-author-stuck-list - Canva AI image generator: https://www.canva.com/features/ai-image-generator/ - Midjourney AI image generation - https://www.midjourney.com/ - My Canva images from text "A green dragon flying over a post-apocalyptic city near the water during sunset."  - Artbreeder - https://www.artbreeder.com/ - Lab grown meat - https://www.freethink.com/science/lab-grown-chicken-upside-foods - our science fictional future is upon us - Imaginary Worlds po

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/e9wAyW2mtw4 Mentioned: - Black Panther Wakanda Forever - My course survey - https://lpen.co/coursesurvey - HoSaS ebook giveaway - https://lpen.co/hosas - until Nov 20 - What I Wish Every Author Knew About Productivity (Quitcast 418) - https://youtu.be/Eh085bQ5p4k - The Conflict Box - https://bob-mayer.medium.com/writer-wednesday-conflict-the-fuel-of-your-story-and-the-conflict-box-920aa0592763  - Ancient Greek weddings - https://www.athensinsiders.com/blog/ancient-greek-wedding - DeepStash app - https://deepstash.com/ - ProWritingAid Black Friday sale 50% OFF lifetime and yearly plans! - https://lpen.co/prowritingaid   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcas

Mentioned: - My Course Survey - https://lpen.co/coursesurvey - SFF Addicts - Heists and Capers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhyKtaEU-9s & https://linktr.ee/SFFAddicts - Kindlepreneur course software review - https://kindlepreneur.com/thinkific-vs-teachable/ - Author Roni Loren - https://roniloren.com/ - Daily Writing Tips - https://www.dailywritingtips.com/ - Between the Reads podcast - https://www.betweenthereads.com/ - Ray Bradbury’s creative formula - https://austinkleon.com/2022/11/01/ray-bradbury-on-feeding-your-creativity - Oliver Burkeman - Everyone’s Still Winging It - https://ckarchive.com/b/r8u8hoh2v34p3   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newslett

Mentioned: - Atlanta episode "The Goof Who Sat by the Door" - Book Exploder with George Saunders - https://bookexploder.com/episodes/george-saunders - Black Adam - Vampire Academy on Peacock   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM Affiliate Disclosure: I may receive com

Mentioned: - Highlights Foundation Retreats - https://thebarnatboydsmills.com/highlights-foundation-workshops-retreats/  - Becca Syme - https://betterfasteracademy.com/ - Erin Bowman: Enjoyability over all else - https://erinbowman.substack.com/p/enjoyability-over-all-else - Stephanie Perkins: Love lists - http://betweenfactandfiction.blogspot.com/2011/01/happy-writers-society-love-lists-by.html - Calendly appointment scheduling - https://calendly.com/ - Reclaim.ai - https://reclaim.ai/r/s/TpyPY  (referral link) - Time blocking - https://todoist.com/productivity-methods/time-blocking - October 27, 2022 - Black Voices of the Future: Spirits of the City with Leslye Penelope & Alex Jennings  - https://hachette-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_bifaPrM-R6KCG4_zwAsFRw#/registration   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the

Mentioned: - The Soul of Good Character Design -  https://youtu.be/SM3IQFgP-d8 - The "Done" Planner: Combating the Dark Side of the Traditional To Do List - https://roniloren.com/blog/2018/9/17/the-done-planner-combating-the-dark-side-of-the-traditional-to-do-list - NPR Codeswitch "Black reality in a world of fantasy" - https://www.npr.org/2022/10/11/1128226741/tochi-onyebuchi-leslye-penelope-black-science-fiction-fantasy - Washingtonian magazine - "'The Monsters We Defy' Is a Historical Ghost Novel Set in DC" - https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/10/12/the-monsters-we-defy-dc-novel/   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support th

Mentioned:  - Capclave - https://www.capclave.org/capclave/capclave22/ - Freewrite Alpha - https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/freewrite-alpha-distraction-free-writing-anywhere#/ -  My Freewrite reviews on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPWpOldzxmoFtoJMjg6iSUuxU1kDichvn - Kindle Scribe - https://amzn.to/3CeFBzc - Remarkable - https://remarkable.com/ - Does pursuing success make authors unhappy? - https://erinbowman.substack.com/p/does-pursuing-success-make-authors - And Neil Gaiman on why stories matter - https://at.tumblr.com/neil-gaiman/hey-mr-gaiman-i-keep-seeing-this-a-was-just/v6lggtv5s7yt   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http:/

Sponsor: A Ghost in Shining Armor by Therese Beharrie https://www.kensingtonbooks.com/9781420153408/a-ghost-in-shining-armor/ Mentioned: - Inkarnate map software - https://inkarnate.com/ - Whimsical - https://whimsical.com/ - Miro - https://miro.com/ - EdrawMax - https://www.edrawsoft.com/edraw-max/ - Author Naomi Novik - https://www.naominovik.com/ - On Aphantasia "What It's Like to Be 'Mind Blind'" - https://time.com/6155443/aphantasia-mind-blind/ - 750words.com - https://750words.com/   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Fac

Mentioned: - The Woman King film (5 stars from me!) - Once Upon a Forbidden Desire - https://books2read.com/forbiddenfairytales - My TikTok - https://tiktok.com/@leslyepenelope - TikTok Sells Books course - https://tiktoksellsbooks.com/ - TikTok warning - https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1559896054514028546   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommo

Mentioned: - B2Weird book club - https://www.instagram.com/b2weird/ - Rings of Power - House of the Dragon - She-Hulk - Once Upon a Forbidden Desire releases Sep. 13 - https://books2read.com/forbiddenfairytales - "Her Majesty's Wolf" excerpt - https://lpenelope.com/2022/09/her-majestys-wolf-excerpt/ - My newsletter - https://lpenelope.com/newsletter/ - Hidden Black towns beneath America's lakes - https://www.instagram.com/p/CiTAeKvLbSx/ - Beyond Tulsa: The Secret History of Flooding Black Towns to Make Lakes | The Amber Ruffin Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3D4hSQcWbk - Margaret Pinard's September #AuthPanel on THE BACKLIST - https://youtu.be/5KrwzZqEy7o - Huberman Lab podcast - Optimize Your Focus - https://hubermanlab.com/focus-toolkit-tools-to-improve-your-focus-and-concentration/ - Publishing Will Never Be Fair - https://unherd.com/2022/07/publishing-will-never-be-fair/   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional

Mentioned: - The National Book Festival - https://www.loc.gov/events/2022-national-book-festival/ - B.L. Blanchard - blblanchard.com - Tochi Onyebuchi - tochionyebuchi.com - NPR Codeswitch - https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510312/codeswitch - The Hot Sheet newsletter - https://hotsheetpub.com/ - "Notes from Across the Pond" Banished newsletter (paywall) https://banished.substack.com/p/notes-from-across-the-pond - Purple Hearts on Netflix - Susan Dennard - The Luminaries Street Team - https://luminerds.substack.com/p/hunter-trials-challenge-1   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay i

10 Things I Learned from Junot Diaz: 1. “Unless it’s breaking you, why would anyone else care?” 2. Give readers a chance to interact with the work - don’t chew it up and put it in their mouths. Let them come to different conclusions. Give them choices to let them decide what to think.  3. Writers cannot be "in cahoots" with the story - safeguard a space for the reader in the story. The story shouldn’t be dictated by the author. 4. Memory is contained and not dangerous. Memory work disrupts the immersion of the story because the character is not immersed in remembering 5. 1st POV should not try to discharge the function of 3rd POV 6. Withholding information is not developing character or plot. Non-information creates disinterest. 7. With characters, take away the one thing you think is important and see what you have left. Allow them to interact with others to let the reader see who they really are. Scaling with at least 2 others allows you to triangulate. 8. We look away to spare ourselves from feeling the pa

Mentioned: - Mama Day by Gloria Naylor - https://amzn.to/3ceURU4 - Author Marie Force - https://marieforce.com/ - The Sandman on Netflix - Day Shift on Netflix - Graveyard Shift by Michael F. Haspil - https://amzn.to/3R4I7y9   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/SZkVShypKgM Affil

- Sistah Scifi interview replay - https://www.instagram.com/p/ChGaUAooXat/ - Miro - online whiteboard & stickies - https://miro.com - Turning points article - https://leeallenhoward.com/2020/06/04/scene-structure-understanding-turning-points/ - The Sandman on Netflix - The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - https://amzn.to/3QJZPXg - Brandon Sanderson's Laws of Magic - https://faq.brandonsanderson.com/knowledge-base/what-are-sandersons-laws-of-magic/ - Confrontation at Nuxvar by Judith Moffitt - https://amzn.to/3Amt798 - Maggie Wells romance - https://maggie-wells.com/   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support th

Mentioned: - The Monsters We Defy is out on Tuesday! https://lpen.co/monsters - Zelda twitter thread for Albinism Awareness Day - https://twitter.com/leslyepenelope/status/1536405352228474880 - New Moon Daughter by Cassandra Wilson - https://open.spotify.com/album/7jV22JIrWgtCKCX34cJrzA?si=yjp1JccuRcW2zLgFZA0pwA - The Monsters We Defy playlist - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2pHG7NlC3I2dwQuko0He8w?si=a58d8a83f0d04b38 - Leslye's upcoming events: https://lpenelope.com/calendar/ - Manila Village - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_Village - Donald Maas "Tension All the Time" from The Fire in Fiction - https://amzn.to/3p0RYsB - Galaxy's Edge magazine "Longhand" column - http://www.galaxysedge.com/ - Book exploder podcast - https://bookexploder.com/episodes/susan-orlean   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writin

Mentioned: - Apollycon - https://jenniferlarmentrout.com/apollycon/ - Try This: Beat Yourself Up Or Write Yourself Upbeat -  Chuck Palahniuk: https://chuckpalahniuk.substack.com/p/try-this-beat-yourself-up-or-write - Ran Walker - https://www.ranwalker.com/ - The Monsters We Defy - https://lpenelope.com/monsters-preorder The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http://lpen.co/footnotes Support the show - http://frolic.media/podcasts! Stay in touch with me! Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook Music credit: Say Good Night by Joakim Karud https://soundcloud.com/joakimkarud Creative Commons — Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported— CC BY-SA 3.0 http://creativecom

Mentioned: - Black Panther: Wakanda Forever teaser - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlOB3UALvrQ - How to use a comptometer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf4nYUXJHnk - America’s Next Great Author - https://writerbeware.blog/2022/07/15/americas-next-great-author-the-author-reality-show-idea-rides-again/ - The Hot Sheet - https://hotsheetpub.com/ - Paul Bogaards Substack - https://paulbogaards.substack.com/p/introducing-kill-your-darlings-oh - Deadline City podcast - https://deadlinecity.com/ - Africa Brooke interview https://youtu.be/q6KGsI6QzD4?t=5080 - Apollycon - https://jenniferlarmentrout.com/apollycon/   The My Imaginary Friends podcast is a weekly, behind the scenes look at the journey of a working author navigating traditional and self-publishing. Join fantasy and paranormal romance author L. Penelope as she shares insights on the writing life, creativity, inspiration, and this week's best thing. Subscribe and view show notes at: https://lpenelope.com/podcast | Get the Footnotes newsletter - http:/

Mentioned: - Plottr software - https://plottr.com?ref=136 (affiliate link) - The Story Grid - https://storygrid.com/ - Scene and Sequel chart - Scene turning points - https://leeallenhoward.com/2020/06/04/scene-structure-understanding-turning-points/ - Writing Excuses Podcast - https://writingexcuses.com/ - Save the Cat - https://savethecat.com/ - One Stop for Writers Character Builder - https://onestopforwriters.com/about_cbt - Enneagram relationships - https://www.crystalknows.com/enneagram/types - Leftie Aubé’s Writing podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/leftie-aubes-writing-podcast/id1634709729 - Authortube Writing Conference - check out the replays - https://www.authortubewritingconference.com/schedule2022 - Nettle and Bone by T. Kingfisher - https://amzn.to/3cqEqDy - Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher - https://amzn.to/3oeEn0C - Alice Coldbreath Vawdrey Brothers series - https://amzn.to/3aQbWTt - An Inconvenient Vow by Alice Coldbreath - https://amzn.to/3zcCbNm - The Hating Game by Sally Thorn