The Nit Writs Pod

In this episode, we discuss our reading and writing goals for 2026! We are both looking to amp up our reading and writing this year and we hope you’ll join us!! What are your goals for the New Year?? Intro and Outro Music is by Chasing West https://www.instagram.com/chvsingwest/ http://www.youtube.com/@chasingwest

In this episode, we get into the different marketing trends we see on booktok and how authors present their books to audiences! We’re always interested and puzzled by the different strategies and we had a lot of fun here talking about how this works when a big part of the fun of reading is not knowing what comes next. As always, we both see this a little differently so it’s an interesting discussi...

In this episode, we discuss our fav lore! We actually didn’t fully talk through everything and ended up discussing a lot about exposition (but I’m sure we’ll return to lore discussions in general–but exposition is a huge part of that convo!). We do our reading check ins (spoiler alert for When the Moon Hatched and Fallen and the Kiss of Dusk!) where we heavily discuss Allie’s experience finishing...

In this episode, we check in with our reading and writing as always and we spend our main discussion doing a writing exercise! The exercise prompt is given at 21:45 (also written below) and we read what we came up with at XX:XX. This one was super fun to do as two people at different stages and experience with our writing (Sam has never done this style of writing exercise, Allie has done hundreds...

Raihn from Crowns of Nyaxia by @aseriaart on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy3dC0rohbe/?img_index=1 Rhysand from ACOTAR by  @charliebowater on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BLEsQ6FABPR/ Xaden from Fourth Wing by @carraert on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/C35ArZqMzRE/?img_index=1   **SPOILER WARNING FOR CROWNS OF NYAXIA SERIES, ACOTAR, FOURTH WING, LIGHT SPOILERS FOR BROKEN...

In this episode, we’ve got our usual reading and writing check ins and then we discuss being a pantser and a plotter! Allie is a pantser and Sam is a plotter so we talk about our very different processes, struggles, patterns in writing, etc. We discuss some of our current stories and how that process has shaped them and it’s a fun conversation! During our reading check in we also have some fun cla...

This episode is a little intro episode where we are discussing who we are and where we’re at on our own reading and writing journeys!  Intro and Outro Music is by Bar Dahan! Check him out on Instagram as Chasing West! https://www.instagram.com/chvsingwest/ http://www.youtube.com/@chasingwest Chapters: 00:00–Intro song, and episode intro 00:22–Why are we doing this?! lol 2:44–Writing check ins (All...