#amwriting With Jess & Kj

Plotting and pantsing, loving your genre, voice, self-doubt… what didn’t we talk about with Mhairi McFarlane? And she has such a lovely Scottish accent to do it in, too. We know you’ll love this episode.  #AmReading Mhairi: The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary (aka El Piso Para Dos in KJ’s Spanish version) Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls Sarina: The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber (from episode Turning Data into #Narrative)  Re-reading Rock Chick by Kristen Ashley KJ: Life’s Too Short by Abby Jimenez Follow Mhairi on Twitter: @mhairimcf In this episode we talked a lot about finding ideas, chasing them around and pinning them down. Jennie Nash from our sponsor, Author Accelerator, has a list of the idea process, in this case for non-fiction books:  I had an idea, which came to me in the form of six words in a very specific order… and which stuck in my mind long enough to ping against a memory… which caused me to think about the connection between those two things (this ne