Writers Behaving Badly
Writers Behaving Badly Podcast
🔥What Makes a Killer First Page?
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🔥What Makes a Killer First Page?

Plus: Feminist Rage Kink, AI Angst & a Mangy Dog Metaphor
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This week on Writers Behaving Badly: Annie cries into her keyboard and calls it kink, Brooke rewrites her way out of despair, Lisa almost writes (Word is open!), and we all lose our minds over a listener’s first page. Also: AI in publishing—is it the end of craft as we know it?


What You'll Learn:

  • How to craft a first page that grips and devastates

  • The emotional tools to write through chaos

  • Why great writing doesn’t need connections—just humanity

  • Whether AI is a shortcut or creative death spiral


Segments Inside:

✍️ Sins & Wins
Rewrites, rage, and resilience—plus a reminder that “almost writing” still counts.

🔥 Roast or Toast
A listener delivers a mangy dog metaphor we won’t shut up about. Submission tip: raw truth + character voice = gold.

🙋‍♀️ Curly Question
Can you get published without connections? Lisa shares the only “networking” that actually matters.

🍵 Tea Time Rant
Generative AI in writing: we talk about it. Lisa would rather chew on a teabag than let a robot write her sentences, and honestly, fair.


Got a sin to confess?

Tell us your worst writing sin of the week in the comments—did you out-bad us?

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