Write the Novel! Letting Go of the Inner Critic with Fiction Author Cooper Levey-Baker

<p>We all have ideas for stories, but if our inner critic has a say, our stories might stay trapped forever. In this edition of the Florida Writer Podcast, host Alison Nissen chats with Cooper Levey-Baker, author of the new dystopian book <em>Dead Fish Wind</em> about how he turned a 3-minute free-writing exercise into a novel...after he calmed his inner critic.</p> <p><span class="il">Cooper</span> Levey-Baker is a writer and journalist. His fiction has appeared in the <em>Sierra Nevada Review</em> and Burrow Press's Fantastic Floridas series, and his journalism has won multiple awards from the Florida Magazine Association and the Florida Society of Professional Journalists. <em>Dead Fish Wind</em> is his first novel.</p>