First Cup of Coffee – July 31, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 31, 2020

July 31, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Musings on what middlegrade means, being admired, what happened to me yesterday and not passing judgment on my knees, and also a snippet from the super fun Dateable Podcast!

You can find the Dateable Podcast here (https://dateablepodcast.com/)

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First Cup of Coffee – July 28, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 28, 2020

July 28, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

A bit on how the universe works in strange ways, the importance of author voice - and how to refine it - and whether querying with a pristine mss is *that* important. Also, an amazing movie for studying suspense!

The class I'm teaching is Keeping Secrets and Creating Suspense here (http://www.oirwa.com/forum/campus/#AUG)

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First Cup of Coffee – July 27, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 27, 2020

July 27, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

On conversations and brainstorming with bestie Grace Draven, and reports on what I've been reading lately - including mild complaints on female characters not having enough to do. 

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First Cup of Coffee – July 24, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 24, 2020

July 24, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Updates on THE PROMISED QUEEN, and upcoming projects. Also thoughts on how subtle language choices create gender bias, i.e., it seems like the male characters have all the action. 

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First Cup of Coffee – July 21, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 21, 2020

July 21, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Happy Birthday today to my loving husband, David. A bit about our curve bill thrasher nestlings, hanging pot disasters, updates on The Promised Queen revision, and some about the New Shiny and Dark Wizard.

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First Cup of Coffee – July 13, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 13, 2020

July 13, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

On being a career author and learning when to hold your creative feet to the fire and when to back off. Also cutting and trimming a long mss down to size, transcribing podcasts, and my new sewing project.  

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Grabbing Those Great Ideas

Our topic at the SFF Seven this week is all about Ideas. How do you write down or remember those great ideas that you get mid-shower/dream/car drive? If you lose them, how do you get them back?

It’s funny this came up now because I talked about this very thing on my podcast, First Cup of Coffee, just recently – and even commented that I liked what I’d talked through so much that I should transcribe it. So this gave me the impetus to do that – and edit the transcription, which is the time-consuming part.  Come on over for more!

First Cup of Coffee – July 9, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 9, 2020

July 09, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

A commute podcast today because I did an IRL writer coffee. Thoughts on pandemic exhaustion, a comet sighting, the exciting cover of THE PROMISED QUEEN, and exhuming a dormant project. 

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First Cup of Coffee – July 7, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 7, 2020

July 07, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Mostly about my new Exciting Thing: Project Greenbelt, which has nothing to do with writing. Also a bit about cutting and tightening during revision.

Also, the audiobook version of THE FIERY CROWN is now available! (https://www.amazon.com/Fiery-Crown-Forgotten-Empires-Book/dp/B08BFF6PPR) Look, I even remembered to put it in the show notes. :-)

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First Cup of Coffee – July 6, 2020

First Cup of Coffee with Jeffe Kennedy

First Cup of Coffee - July 6, 2020

July 06, 2020

Jeffe Kennedy

Thoughts on the great privilege of being an unpublished author and the freedom that gives--which, like youth, we don't appreciate at the time. Also some details on how I track my writing work. 

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