• Freelance Writing Direct: Conversations with authors, journalists, agents, novelists, memoirists, niche writers, agents, publishers, writing teachers, assigning editors and media experts.

  • By: Estelle Erasmus
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Freelance Writing Direct: Conversations with authors, journalists, agents, novelists, memoirists, niche writers, agents, publishers, writing teachers, assigning editors and media experts.

By: Estelle Erasmus
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  • Welcome to the Freelance Writing Direct podcast. Join Estelle Erasmus every week as she shares short, sound bite-filled podcasts, covering everything that the creative writer, freelance writer, and author needs to know to move forward in their creativity and career. Estelle will share how the sauce is made, with tips and tricks to give you a leg up in the marketplace. The podcast will also feature interviews with authors and writers who are generous with their own advice. Throughout the episodes, Estelle will evolve with the audience, as she listens to her guests, share pitches and essays, and offer writing and career prompts. If you want to learn how to get your work published and noticed you are in the right place. This show will provide answers to questions like: *How can I get started writing? *What are assigning editors in top publications looking for? *How can I find an agent? *What do publishers want? *What are writing craft tips I can implement right away to get published? *How can my pitches to editors make an impact? *What do bestselling authors recommend I do to improve my writing practice? *What craft tips do writing teachers recommend? *What are tips, tricks and strategies for getting my writing noticed? It’s time to build your craft with Freelance Writing Direct. Estelle can’t wait to read what you will be writing.
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Episodes
  • #111 Making Meaning While Writing Traumatic Stories As Catalysts for Change Featuring Lisa Cooper Ellison

    #111 Making Meaning While Writing Traumatic Stories As Catalysts for Change Featuring Lisa Cooper Ellison
    Oct 31 2024
    Lisa Cooper Ellison is an author, speaker, trauma-informed writing coach, and host of the Writing Your Resilience podcast. She works and writes at the intersection of storytelling and healing, and combines her personal experiences with suicide loss and CPTSD with her clinical training to help writers turn tough experiences into art. Her essays and stories have appeared on Risk! and in The New York Times, HuffPost, Hippocampus Literary Magazine, and Kenyon Review Online, among others. In this episode: How Lisa became a trauma-informed writing coach after she dealt with a debilitating health issue [3:54] The emotional impacts of writing about tough topics [10:21] How the nervous system is impacted when writing about trauma [11:27] The meaning making process; owning our meltdowns and moments [12:13] Estelle’s experience with writing about her ectopic pregnancy and how it required emotional distance and time [12:47] How writers can protect themselves and practice self-care while writing difficult stories about themselves or loved ones [14:06] Lisa’s experience with writing her own memoir and being a volcano writer [20:34] Lisa’s article in HuffPost Personal on emotional flashbacks and defining them [21:00] How Lisa protects her own mental health through somatic processing [29:56] Why a beat sheet is your BFF for structuring your memoir, and understanding your book’s essential questions [37:59] Connect with Lisa Website: https://lisacooperellison.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lisacooperellison/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-cooper-ellison-b5483840/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisacooperellison/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@lisacooperellison Lisa’s article on HuffPost Personal Making the Smallest Little Mistake Filled Me With Terror: Then 2 Little Words Changed My Life https://www.huffpost.com/entry/emotional-flashback-dread-doom-therapy_n_66cb7ae8e4b0f0ded8061ba6 Estelle’s episode Writing That Gets Noticed on Lisa’s podcast Writing Your Resilience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU-Wpm27PhU Connect with Estelle ​​FREE PITCHING GUIDE: Find out more about this episode at https://estelleserasmus.com/podcast. You also get a free pitching guide if you sign up for her newsletter. Sign up for Estelle’s Personal Essay Class for Writer’s Digest https://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/courses/writing-the-personal-essay-101-fundamentals Sign up for Estelle’s NYU Classes https://www.sps.nyu.edu/professional-pathways/faculty/e/1068-estelle-erasmus.html Get Her Book Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published: https://rb.gy/5ihwp0 Order Her Audiobook: https://shorturl.at/4uG2P Sign up for her Substack https://estelleserasmus.substack.com (with craft advice and writing opportunities). Paid subscribers receive opportunities for pitch reviews, plus bonus clips from Freelance Writing Direct guests Follow Estelle: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/EstelleSErasmus TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@EstelleSErasmus Twitter: https://twitter.com/EstelleSerasmus People mentioned who had episodes on Estelle’s podcast Linda Lowen, episode #31 Getting Your Writing Career in Gear When on a Tight Deadline https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/freelance-writing-direct-conversations-with-authors/id1647429472?i=1000610817037 Jane Friedman, episode #105 A Look Inside Publishing: Hybrid, Audiobooks, AI & More https://estelleserasmus.com/105-a-look-inside-publishing-hybrid-audiobooks-ai-more-featuring-jane-friedman/ Mina Dubin, episode #61 All About Mom Rage https://estelleserasmus.com/61-all-about-mom-rage-with-minna-dubin/ Estelle’s article in Brevity Don’t Blow Up Your Life for a Byline https://brevity.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/dont-blow-up-your-life-for-a-byline/
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    42 mins
  • #110 The Astrology House and Other Novel Touchstones with Carinn Jade

    #110 The Astrology House and Other Novel Touchstones with Carinn Jade
    Oct 24 2024

    Carinn Jade is a lawyer, writer, and cohost of the Pop Fiction Women podcast. Her essays have been published in the New York Times, Daily Worth, and Motherwell. She has attended the GrubStreet Novel Generator, Yale Writers' Conference, and the Northern California Writers' Retreat. Carinn grew up on the North Fork of Long Island and lives with her family in New York City. The Astrology House is her first novel.

    In this episode:

    • The origin of this thriller based around an astrology-themed retreat [3:21]

    • Her use of time constraints as a plot device to build dramatic tension [8:36]

    • Books Carinn read that informed her idea of the book’s structure and premise [8:48

    • Carinn’s process of writing multiple POVS in short chapters [11:00]

    • How her literary go-to The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and other realityTV was one of many touchstones and guided her in writing dramatic scenes[11:43]

    • How she dropped clues to characters throughout the book [12:54]

    • Why she included astrology cheat sheets as a plot device and touchstone [15:28]

    • How much of Carinn is in her novel [18:21]

    • Building tension and twists into each page [19:44]

    • The art of writing authentic dialogue [22:01]

    • The process of revision and what that required [23:11]

    • Carinn’s querying journey and how she found her agent [26:16]

    • The synchronicities between being a lawyer and a writer [31:09]



    Photo credit: Erin Schiffman



    Connect with Carinn

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carinnjade/

    X: https://x.com/carinnjade?lang=en

    Pop Fiction Women website: https://popfictionwomen.com/about-us/

    Buy Her Book on Estelle’s Bookshop

    https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-astrology-house-carinn-jade/20704948?aid=98827&ean=9781668045961&listref=authors-who-have-appeared-on-freelance-writing-direct&

    Connect with Estelle

    ​​FREE PITCHING GUIDE: Find out more about this episode at

    https://estelleserasmus.com/podcast. You also get a free pitching guide if you sign up for her newsletter.

    Sign up for Estelle’s Personal Essay Class for Writer’s Digest

    https://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/courses/writing-the-personal-essay-101-fundamentals

    Sign up for Estelle’s NYU Classes

    https://www.sps.nyu.edu/professional-pathways/faculty/e/1068-estelle-erasmus.html

    Get Her Book

    Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published: https://rb.gy/5ihwp0

    Order Her Audiobook:

    https://shorturl.at/4uG2P

    Sign up for her Substack https://estelleserasmus.substack.com (with craft advice and writing opportunities). Paid subscribers receive opportunities for pitch reviews, plus bonus clips from Freelance Writing Direct guests

    Follow Estelle:

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/EstelleSErasmus

    TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@EstelleSErasmus

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/EstelleSerasmus
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    34 mins
  • #109 The Critic's Daughter: Deploying Power Through Prose with Priscilla Gilman

    #109 The Critic's Daughter: Deploying Power Through Prose with Priscilla Gilman
    Oct 17 2024

    Priscilla Gilman is the author of two memoirs, The Anti-Romantic Child (Harper, 2011) and The Critic’s Daughter (Norton, 2023) and a former professor of English literature at Yale University and Vassar College. The Critic's Daughter was a Washington Post Best Book of 2023, a New York Times Book Critics' Favorite Book of 2023, a Good Morning America Must-Read, one of the Los Angeles Times' book critic and Book Maven Bethanne Patrick's Top 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2023, one of the "18 Books Lilith magazine Loved in 2023," and 3rd on Bookreporter's Harvey Freedenburg's Favorite Books of 2023. Nick Hornby called The Critic’s Daughter “beautiful: honest, raw, careful, soulful, brave and incredibly readable," and Kiese Laymon declared: “The Critic’s Daughter is an exquisite and rare example of how the memoir needs as much inventiveness in scope and form as our most lush fiction and poetry…I’ve read few books in my life as skillfully executed and willfully conceived as The Critic’s Daughter.” Gilman’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, O, the Oprah Magazine, and elsewhere. She lives in New York City.

    In this episode:

    • Priscilla’s search for her father as the genesis for 'The Critic's Daughter'

    • Outlining the ways she lost her father throughout her life

    • Her hypervigilance as a result of a childhood spent with famous and powerful parents

    • Crafting an elegy for a lost New York

    • “Streaks of love” and loss as throughlines of her book

    • Setting up the book as a series of acts straight from the theater

    • Reflecting on the brilliance of her father's writing and power as a critic while writing her own story

    • The challenges of navigating a personal and public persona

    • Priscilla’s journey to processing grief and healing as she “brought her father back” and gained clarity on his life through research and writing his story

    Connect with Priscilla

    Website: www.priscillagilman.com

    Episode #52 Mentioned in this podcast

    A Conversation with Claire Dederer About Monsters

    https://estelleserasmus.com/a-conversation-with-claire-dederer-about-monsters/

    Connect with Estelle

    ​​FREE PITCHING GUIDE: Find out more about this episode at

    https://estelleserasmus.com/podcast. You also get a free pitching guide if you sign up for her newsletter.

    Sign up for Estelle’s Personal Essay Class for Writer’s Digest

    https://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/courses/writing-the-personal-essay-101-fundamentals

    Sign up for Estelle’s NYU Classes

    https://www.sps.nyu.edu/professional-pathways/faculty/e/1068-estelle-erasmus.html

    Get Her Book

    Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published: https://rb.gy/5ihwp0

    Order Her Audiobook:

    https://shorturl.at/4uG2P

    Sign up for her Substack https://estelleserasmus.substack.com (with craft advice and writing opportunities). Paid subscribers receive opportunities for pitch reviews, plus bonus clips from Freelance Writing Direct guests

    Follow Estelle:

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/EstelleSErasmus

    TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@EstelleSErasmus

    Twitter: https://twitter.com/EstelleSerasmus

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    42 mins

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