Pacemaker
A Word Count Planner for Writers and Students
I (Courtney) am running behind getting our final season 1 episode up. I'm hoping to get it out this weekend. In the meantime:
Wanna do a short writing (or editing or reading or crafting or whatever) challenge with us this month?
Details and join link here:
09.01.2026 14:19
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This is such a great podcast, and always love hearing what @jenniferhudak.bsky.social has to say!
18.12.2025 01:26
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I had a blast chatting with @courtney-floyd.com and @monawest.bsky.social about learning and growing from failure, art that takes as long as it takes, and how it's important to let yourself suck at something.
18.12.2025 13:44
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We have one more guest interview this season, and it's a phenomenal one. Tune in this Friday for the rest of our chat with @jenniferhudak.bsky.social!
18.12.2025 01:23
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Episode 23 with @emilyzipps.bsky.social is out tomorrow (in just a few more hours really)! Here's a preview:
17.10.2025 03:29
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If You Force the Zipper, It Won't Budge
Courtney and Mona chat with debut author, Piper L. White, about the debut learning curve, how other types writing and art inform and interconnect with our fiction, and writing genre in a BFA program. ...
New episode day!!!
Unfortunately... If You Force the Zipper, it Won't Budge with @piperlwhite.bsky.social is out now!
We had such a blast chatting with Piper about the fact that everything is writing, the genre wars, and debut year!
#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast
03.10.2025 13:18
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In tomorrow's episode, we're chatting with debut author @piperlwhite.bsky.social about all of the varied ways we write, moving between genres and modes, and lots more. Here's a little preview!
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02.10.2025 13:00
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It's an Economy of Favors
Courtney and Mona chat publishing, precarity, and privilege with debut author Lacey Dunham.
Transcripts here!
Find Lacey online at www.laceyndunham.com., on Bluesky and on Instagram. And check out T...
New episode!
Unfortunately... It's an Economy of Favors with Lacey Dunham is available wherever you listen to podcasts.
Thank you so much to @bookbent.bsky.social for joining us! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast
19.09.2025 13:31
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On tomorrow's episode, with guest @bookbent.bsky.social, we're chatting publishing, precarity, and privilege.
Lacey's debut dark academia, The Belles, is out as of last week -- help her celebrate debut month by snagging a copy or requesting at your library!
#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast
19.09.2025 02:24
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Including the link might have been helpful 😂
06.09.2025 20:29
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We had a delay, but episode 20 is finally here!
Listen to *Unfortunately... It's Like Army Crawling Through 30 Inches of Snow* with guest author, Rebecca Danzenbaker, wherever you get you podcasts. #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast
06.09.2025 20:28
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Here's a preview of Friday's episode, with @lisatirrenoauthor.bsky.social. We chat about coming to writing from journalism, gamifying rejections, and so much more! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast
10.08.2025 20:47
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The publishing anxiety is so real.
01.08.2025 14:28
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It's a new episode day!
We chatted with debut author Alysha Rameera about the feeling of not being enough to write your culture, how vital work-life balance can be in writing, and our strategies for managing publishing anxiety. #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity
pnc.st/s/unfortunat...
01.08.2025 13:00
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Our Unfortunately... episode is now live! Really loved chatting with Courtney and Mona about our journey and the unique ups and downs of being co-writers.
21.07.2025 09:48
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The Unfortunately train crashing on an out bridge with the text Unfortunately... You're (Not?) Two Halves of the Same Brain. On tickets at the bottom of the graphic text reads Episode 17 with MK Hardy.
Episode 17 is out now!
We chat with @mkhardywrites.com, co-authors of debut Sapphic Gothic Horror, The Needfire (out 7/31!), about co-writing & editing, managing disagreements, & creating community.
#WritingPodcasts #WritingCommunity
pnc.st/s/unfortunat...
18.07.2025 14:30
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This Friday our latest episode with @mkhardywrites.com hits the feed.
We had a fantastic chat about co-writing, editing, navigating the industry with optimism, and building community! #WritingPodcast #WritingCommunity
14.07.2025 14:32
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woohoo! had a lot of fun talking about writing, journey, quitting and more!
04.07.2025 18:00
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New episode day!
Listen to Ep 16 - Progress isn't an Upward Slope with
@rukman.bsky.social here:
pnc.st/s/unfortunat...
#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast
04.07.2025 13:29
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New episode tomorrow!
Here's a preview of our conversation with author @rukman.bsky.social, who braved a storm and internet issues to chat with us the importance of complexity in representation, getting paid, why it's okay to quit, survivorship bias, and so much more.
#WritingCommunity
03.07.2025 21:54
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I had the honor of being a guest on the Unfortunately...Podcast! If you're a writer who has ever gotten an "Unfortunately..." message, this podcast is for you! It's a writer to writer discussion about craft and how we learn from failures. Here's my episode, but you should listen to them all!
24.06.2025 18:35
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It has unironically been such a joy to commiserate with so many amazing and gracious writers. Failure loves company, so give us a listen!
24.06.2025 15:11
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I've enjoyed listening to this podcast just as much as being a guest on it!
24.06.2025 00:01
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Oh, also, we chugged past a milestone over the weekend... Thank you so much for listening!
#WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast
23.06.2025 23:55
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Plotters have an Advantage
Courtney and Mona chat with debut author Sasa Hawk about short story vs novel submissions, identifying your own patterns, writing synopses, genre labels as marketing tools, and DIY promo strategies.
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Our scheduled post failed, but YOU didn't listeners -- delighted to see that a bunch of you found our episode with @sasahawk.bsky.social over the weekend.
If you missed it, listen here: pnc.st/s/unfortunat...
#WritingPodcasts #WritingCommunity #NewEpisode
23.06.2025 23:45
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How about a little preview of our next episode (out Friday!) for your Tuesday scroll?
We chatted with @sasahawk.bsky.social about identifying your own patterns, plotting vs pantsing, writing synopses, genre labels as marketing tools, promo strategies, and more! #WritingCommunity #WritingPodcast
17.06.2025 14:17
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