❌ Visit www.patreon.com/jacksontandy to support the podcast and read my rough draft chapters and my monthly updates❌ Questions or comments about the show? Email me at [email protected] or message me on instagram @jacksonmarktandy ❌ Intro an

#43 Emerson, Self-Reliance, and the Best Kind of Armor for Self-Doubt

Apr 29th, 2020 44m 40s

#42 Time as Narrative Device: Slaughterhouse Five, Name of the Wind, Scott Lynch and the Gentlemen Bastards Series

Apr 8th, 2020 58m 49s

#41 First Three Chapters of Tomorrow City, Quarantine Updates, Self-publishing Wide vs. Amazon?

Apr 1st, 2020 43m 17s

#40 How to Keep Writing Even When the Sky is Falling

Mar 4th, 2020 43m 4s

❌ Visit www.patreon.com/jacksontandy to support the podcast and read my rough draft chapters and my weekly blog❌ Questions or comments about the show? Email me at [email protected] or message me on instagram @jacksonmarktandy ❌ Intro and Ou

#39 Tomorrow City Progress Report #1

Feb 26th, 2020 28m 26s

(0:00) Recap of recent episodes (2:00) A brief history of my writing journey (4:30) The loneliness of writing a novel. Feeling like you're writing in a cave. Why did I start the Head Trip Podcast? (8:30) Update on Tomorrow City, Rough Draft #1,

#38 "Oh The Places You'll Go" by Dr. Seuss and "The Shape of Stories" by Kurt Vonnegut

Feb 13th, 2020 56m 19s

(0:00) Reading from "Oh The Places You'll Go (2:30) Introduction: Clouds, Fog, Isolation, Distractions. How to be a writer in modern times? (18:15) Reading a story at different points in your life, and how our perspective changes (22:00) Kurt V

#37 Gary Tandy - Breaking Down "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami

Feb 5th, 2020 1h 35m

(0:00) Introduction (6:40) Conversation with Gary Tandy, breaking down "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami (1:22:00) Part 2 - Tomorrow City Chapter 2, Scenes 3 and 4❌ Visit www.patreon.com/jacksontandy to support the podcast and rea

#36 Phillip Pullman's Career: Golden Compass and the Book of Dust

Jan 30th, 2020 57m 30s

(0:00) Introduction - A reading from "The Golden Compass." And also, what the hell is happening in 2020? (12:40) Part 1 - Comparing Phillip Pullman's Career to C.S. Lewis' career and George R.R. Martin's career. Comparing the publication schedu

#35 Parasite! Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? Breaking Bad - Truly Unique Stories. Plus Scene 4 of Tomorrow City

Jan 22nd, 2020 1h 19m

(0:00) Introduction (14:00) Part 1 - Have you seen Parasite? (20:00) Truly Unique Stories vs. Typical Genre-Style Stories (23:40) Oh, Brother Where Art Thou? and the Odyssey (30:00) Neil Gaiman, Slaughter-House 5, Catch-22 (34:30) The Genius of

#34 Banking Words is like Paying off Loans, Urban vs. Contemporary Fantasy, Going Wide vs. KDP

Jan 15th, 2020 1h 6m

(0:00) Introduction (7:00) Part 1 - How to automate your writing, How to tackle the overwhelming prospect of a novel, Genre expectations and the rabbit hole of niche genres, and the self-publishing debate of Wide vs. KDP. (46:50) Part 2 - Tomor

#33 Writing and Drinking, Setting Easy-to-Reach Goals, and How to Draft a Chapter 1 that Hooks Readers

Jan 9th, 2020 49m 6s

(0:00) Introduction (8:20) Part 1 - Health and Writing, Setting Goals with Realistic Expectations, Drinking and Writing, Pledging not to Drink Alone in 2020 (34:30) Part 2 - Scene 2 of the Tomorrow City rough draft, and how I'm trying to start

#32 Scene 1 of Tomorrow City! Plus a breakdown of "Theft of Swords" by Michael J. Sullivan

Jan 2nd, 2020 1h 4m

(0:00) Patreon, New Chapters, and New Year's Resolutions (19:00) Breaking down "Theft of Swords" by Michael J. Sullivan - Spoiler Alert! (45:50) Breaking down Scene #1 of Tomorrow City❌ Visit www.patreon.com/jacksontandy to support the podcast,

#31 Big Changes in 2020, and John Truby's ideas on Narrative Drive

Dec 25th, 2019 53m 8s