Tim and Art reveal the benefits of participating in the SmokeLong Quarterly March Micro Madness workshop, specifically in how it has impacted the style and quality of their feedback. Then Art poses three questions to consider when giving feedback to ensure the feedback is useful both for the receiver and the giver. Finally, the guys discuss three "dualities" that work well together for ready-made feedback topics:

• Quality of Writing vs Quality of Story
• Idea vs Execution
• Intent vs Result (to spark a dialogue with the writer)

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Art explores a recent epiphany and how it can apply to your work in narrative distance at the sentence level.

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Tim and Art welcome acclaimed writer and editor Eric Scot Tryon to the corner booth to talk about his writing process, his new novel I'm The Undertow (available now for pre-order), and a peek behind the curtain of his literary journal Flash Frog.

Eric Scot Tryon's short fiction has appeared in literary journals such as Mid-American Review, Indiana Review, Ninth Letter, Florida Review, Glimmer Train, The Los Angeles Review, and others. His work has also been selected for the Wigleaf Top 50 and the Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction anthologies. He is also the founding editor of the literary magazine Flash Frog. Eric is represented by Carleen Geisler.

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Art describes his participation in a month-long writing workshop and reads his first attempt at microfiction into the record, which serves as a great example of how early drafts often lack necessary conflict.

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Tim and Art discuss the concept of "bravery" in how challenging it can be to be vulnerable and emotionally honest in our fiction. Then Tim and Art explore how to use AI as your own personal assistant to accelerate early stage perogress on longer works of fiction (like a novel outline or movie treatment) while ensuring a "low ick" level of ethical limits on what you allow it to do.

We also referenced Tim's excellent story in Dishsoap Quarterly, "They fired up the laser": https://dishsoap-quarterly.com/12-31-24/laser/

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Art celebrates Tim's personal challenge that helped Art break out of his creative rut and love the process of writing once again.

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Tim and Art welcome acclaimed writer and editor Aaron Burch to the corner booth to talk about his process and his newly released novel Tacoma.

Aaron Burch is the author of the essay collection, A Kind of In-Between; the novel, Year of the Buffalo; the memoir/literary analysis Stephen King's The Body; and the short story collection, Backswing. He edited the craft anthology How to Write a Novel: An Anthology of 20 Craft Essays About Writing, None of Which Ever Mention Writing, and is currently the editor of the journals Short Story, Long and HAD. He grew up in Tacoma and lives in Michigan, where he teaches at the University of Michigan.

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Tim tries to answer the question from the end of last episode: "What about the work that you are doing makes you feel like it matters so much that you want to finish it?"

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