Drafts, Deals & Detours with Darien Gee

Drafts, Deals & Detours with Darien Gee

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Get the inside scoop on one writer's writing and publication life (urm, mine).
 • Darien Gee
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Writing Without a Net with Allison K. Williams
Lessons on creative risk, earned confidence, and building a writing life that lasts
 • Darien Gee and Allison K Williams
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Why Start a Substack Newsletter? 10 Reasons for Writers and Creatives
What I’ve learned from building Writer-ish and Drafts, Deals & Detours
 • Darien Gee
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Wait, She Writes Novels Too? with Becky Tuch
The founder of Lit Mag News on querying agents, recovering from a stalled novel, and why consistency matters more than breakthroughs
 • Darien Gee and Becky Tuch
57:45
Monthly Debrief: Do You Need an MFA?
What an MFA Can (and Can't) Do for Your Writing Life
 • Darien Gee
1:01:03
Debrief+ on When the Dream Comes True (What Happens After the Book Deal)
Publishing realities, disappointment, and building a writing career anyway
 • Darien Gee and Amran Gowani
58:55
Debrief+ on Sorry But Yes, You Need a Platform (and How to Get One)
Watch now | Platform, publishing, and how writers can build sustainable visibility
 • Darien Gee and Karin Gillespie
34:37
Try Everything: How Making Art Unlocks Your Writing
I was a guest on Writers Inspired by the Arts!
 • Darien Gee and Sheri Handel
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Debrief+ on The Writing Habit: Curiosity, Discipline, and Letting Drafts Misbehave
Bad drafts, day jobs, and the real work of building a writing practice
 • Darien Gee and Paul Crenshaw
57:29
Monthly Debrief: Book and Book-Adjacent Income
The ecosystem that sustains my writing life
 • Darien Gee
Still at Chapter One
I’m home after 3½ weeks of travel and no, I did not get any writing done
 • Darien Gee
Less Revising, More Re-Visioning
On hitting the road and leaving your desk behind
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Before the Clinic Opens
A quiet kind of forward motion
 • Darien Gee
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Monthly Debrief: When a book stops working: should you fix, restructure or walk away?
On navigating draft doubts and major revisions
 • Darien Gee
Drafts, Deals & Detours with Darien Gee
Drafts, Deals & Detours with Darien Gee
Welcome to Drafts, Deals & Detours, where I share the inside scoop of how I’m building a literary life by refusing to stay in one lane.
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Welcome to Drafts, Deals & Detours, where I share the inside scoop of how I’m building a literary life by refusing to stay in one lane.
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