The Writing Endeavor
Authors William Eaton and Nathaniel Griffin are doing a podcast about their writing journey. The two authors are exploring writing and what it takes to go from idea, creation, editing, publishing, and beyond. Join the two hosts bi-weekly and listen to the two authors discuss their successes and lessons as they build their writing career.
Episodes
17 episodes
Episode 16 - Venting Frustrations and Healing From Burnout
On today's episode, Nate and Will are in a dour mood and discuss their frustrations with life, the world, and recent events. We then delve into how we deal with burnout and the healing process that is needed after burnout.Current consum...
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Episode 16
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1:19:44
Episode 15 - Cormac McCarthy and Legacy Writing
On today’s episode, in remembrance of Cormac McCarthy we discuss his passing and the influence he’s had on us and the general effect he’s had on literature. We then read and critique each other's work, Will read his Short story horror piece ...
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Episode 15
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1:02:02
Episode 14 - Novellas and Small Presses
On today’s episode, we have a shorter episode where Nate and Will discuss novellas and small publishers for a bit. As always enjoy some banter in the beginning and some tangents later on.Fight the Demon and Write on!
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Episode 14
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37:20
Episode 13 - Critique Day 2: Electric Boogaloo
In today’s episode, Nate and Will have another critique day. The subject of this critique was a story about AI - Artificial Intelligence. Enjoy some banter in the beginning and listen in on Will and Nate's take on how to use AI within ...
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Episode 13
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1:05:02
Episode 12 - The WGA Strike
On today’s episode, you get an outsider's vague look at what’s going on with the Writers Guild of America’s strike. Nate and Will shared the WGA request and their opinions on it.Next episode is a critique day. We’re going to wr...
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Episode 12
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1:25:58
Episode 11 - Critique Day
Critique Day! Will shares the first few paragraphs of his “Monster Story” and Nate shares the opening on his prologue for “Griever”. We follow up each reading with some critiques and feedback. Also, enjoy a nice tangential conversation at th...
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Episode 11
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1:01:41
Episode 10 - Origins of Ideas
In today's episode, Nate and Will discuss where they get their ideas for their story ideas and how they keep track of the ideas they have. Thank you for listening to the podcast!If you could, please leave a review on whateve...
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Episode 10
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1:06:48
Episode 9 - March Radness
Thank you for listening to the podcast!If you could, please leave a review on whatever podcast service you use. It’ll help the show by leading listeners to us.Nathaniel can be found at The Ho...
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Episode 9
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58:56
Episode 8 - Ikigai
Thank you for listening to the podcast!In this episode Will gets really excited about a graphic novel. Nate admits his love of Jewel Staite. And both admit their admiration of the ladies of Letterkenny. Oh, and they talk about writing a...
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Episode 8
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1:01:41
Episode 7 - Adaptations
Thank you for listening to the podcast!On today's episode, Nate and Will catch up about their writing, talk about things they're enjoying and do a dive into The Last of Us TV show and talk about adapting other forms of media into mov...
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Episode 7
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54:41
Episode 6 - The Rantening
Thank you for listening to the podcast!Episode Six was intended to only be about fifteen minutes, but Will and Nate got talking and ran a bit longer than expected. Nate and Will discuss if they've been writing lately and Will disc...
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Episode 6
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28:58
Episode 5 - Goals for 2023
Happy New Year!In our fifth episode, Nate and Will discuss goals for 2023 and plans for the podcast.If you could, please leave a review on whatever podcast service you use. It’ll help the show by leading liste...
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Episode 5
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49:52
Episode 4 - NaNoWriMo 3 and Video Games
In our Fourth Episode your Hosts Nathaniel and William deal with a technical glitch and they talk about finishing up NaNoWriMo and do a dive into video game writing.If you could, please leave a review on whatever podcast service you ...
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Episode 4
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36:07
Episode Three - NaNoWriMo 2
Thank you for listening to the podcast!In our second episode, your hosts Nathaniel and William talk about NaNoWriMo and how their month of writing a novel has been going. We have a few tangents about horror books and movies, as we...
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Episode 3
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54:14
Episode Two - NaNoWriMo Begins
Thank you for listening to the podcast!In our second episode, our host Nathaniel is under the weather, so we decided to do a shorter episode today. Topics include what we’ve been writing, we’ve been reading and consuming for me...
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Episode 2
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40:49