Episode 65: Welcome to the Other Side of the Blank Page

If you can read a page aloud and ramble through your morning pages, but the thought of making up a scene out loud, in your own voice, makes your brain freeze, this episode is for you.

This week on The Confident Fiction Author, I'm sharing Welcome to the Other Side of the Blank Page. We're on week four of my D.R.A.F.T. framework series with F=Fiction, the letter authors tell me they fear the most, and the place where every Fictator gets made.

In this episode, you'll discover:
•  Why speaking an unpolished story out loud feels so exposing
•  The "load before you fire" habit that stops the mid-sentence stall
•  My four-sentence paragraph for opening any scene
•  What to do when you stall
•  Your first full scene exercise, and how bracket notes let you keep going when a character shows up you didn't plan on

By the end, you'll have the recipe for your first dictated scene, and full permission for it to be messy.

Listen to the episode or read the blog-style version on my Substack here.
You can also listen to this episode on FictionCourses.com, or search for The Confident Fiction Author podcast on your favorite podcast app (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and more).

And if you want to dictate your first scene in a tool designed specifically for fiction authors, my app Fictate is out of beta and open to everyone! Your outline sits right on the screen while you speak, and you can teach it your character names so they come out spelled right. There's a free trial waiting for you at fictateapp.com.

Still not dictating yet because the tech is fighting you? My Dictation Bootcamp is where you start! It runs September 8 through 11, and the whole event is about conquering the tech, your built-in tools, the record and transcribe method, and getting everything talking to your writing software. Details at fictioncourses.com/dictationbootcamp.

I hope to see you in the bootcamp!