Every week, or thereabouts, you'll get a short voicenote from Nikesh Shukla with a new writing tip, one that delves into the craft, business and egginess of writing. One week, it might be character, another it might be setting, or conflict, or dialogue, or the publishing industry. Like Nikesh's successful substack and his book on writing, Your Story Matters, this short, personable, warm podcast is meant to be like Nikesh's teaching: warm, enthusiastic, accessible and filled with references to superheroes and sitcoms.

Have you ever sent a voice note on a messaging app, and about two minutes in, apologised that it's less a voice note and more a podcast now... well, hahahahahahha hilarious we thought we'd turn that into an actual thing. This is a bitesize writing guide meant to be the length of your voice notes that are actually podcasts.

Here is Nikesh's bio:

Nikesh Shukla is a novelist and screenwriter, currently working on a Spider-Man India comic book miniseries for Marvel as well as numerous television projects. Most recently, he released his first children’s book, called The Council Of Good Friends.

He is the author of Coconut Unlimited (shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award), Meatspace and the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny. Nikesh is the editor of the bestselling essay collection, The Good Immigrant, which won the reader's choice at the Books Are My Bag Awards. He co-edited The Good Immigrant USA with Chimene Suleyman. He is the author of three YA novels, Run, Riot (shortlisted for a National Book Award), The Boxer (longlisted for the Carnegie Medal) and Stand Up. Nikesh was one of Time Magazine’s cultural leaders, Foreign Policy magazine's 100 Global Thinkers and The Bookseller's 100 most influential people in publishing in 2016 and in 2017. He is the co-founder of The Good Literary Agency. Nikesh’s memoir, Brown Baby: A Memoir Of Race, Family And Home was longlisted for the Jhalak Prize. He has also written a book on writing called Your Story Matters.

Nikesh wrote the award-winning short film, Two Dosas, a Channel 4 Comedy Lab called Kabadasses and has worked in numerous writer’s rooms both in the UK and US, for Hulu, Prime, HBO, BBC and Apple. He is a fellow of the Sundance Institute, has received honorary doctorates for services to literature (though he turned down an MBE cos he's a legend) and is a fellow of the Royal Society Of Literature.

Nikesh teaches a writing a novel course at Faber Academy, mentors writers, and has previously lectured and run workshops at Bath Spa, University of Bristol, the Arvon Foundation and many more places.

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