Laurel Morales

Writer, producer, International Women's Podcast Award winner for 2 Lives - Stories of Transformation

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

An agent's guide to BENNIE AND THE REGRETS
83K words, upmarket fiction love story
- fierce friendships
- emotional resonance
- fourth chance romance
- second coming of age
- mother-daughter story
#questpit #q #u #wf

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

An agent's guide to BENNY AND THE REGRETS
Upmarket fiction love story by the numbers
- 83,000 words
- 4th chance love story
- 2 transformative summers
- 3 decades apart
- 3 fierce friends
- 1 hit rock song that refuses to go away

#questpit #q #u #wf

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

An agent's guide to BENNIE AND THE REGRETS

♥️ Irresistible love story
😂 Sharp wit
❤️‍🩹 Emotional resonance
🥰 Fierce female friendships
💕 Empty nest
🎨 Midlife coming of age story
🤘 Nineties nostalgia

#questpit #Q #U #WF

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

@weavinguptales Me too! Would be happy to swap. 🤓

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

I always learn so much from CeCe. 🤯Last night she said in her class on writing interiority, make sure in every scene your POV character has a reaction that surprises the reader. "Your reader should be saying, 'I should've seen that coming.'" Love to #learnwithcece @ceciliaclyra

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

This week on @2livespodcast we talked with Wenche Frederiksen who experienced life threatening burnout in an attempt to do and be all the things as a woman.

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

@Discover_Pods 2 Lives - stories of people who faced darkness and how those moments transformed them. "We all have two lives. The second begins the moment we realize we have only one."

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

@GoodpodsHQ Yes please! 2 Lives - stories of people who faced darkness and how those moments transformed them. "We all have two lives. The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." https://t.co/w0Pd3I1bCt

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

A quote that inspired Katie Joy Duke through not one but two major traumas in her life. Listen to the latest 2 Lives episode to hear how she has become the phoenix.

#lifeafterloss #breastcancer

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

That's Trevon (front and center) not long before his oldest brother Terrell (right) was shot and killed outside a church on the south side of Chicago. He's dedicated his life to protesting #gunviolence

Hear how @trevonbosley1 continues to believe in change tomorrow on 2 Lives.

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

I have always rolled my eyes 🙄at people who watch golf but even I admit that this moment and Michael Block's story is amazing. 🥹

[PGA Tour @PGATour]

UNBELIEVABLE!

MICHAEL BLOCK JUST DUNKED A HOLE-IN-ONE!

[PGA Tour @PGATour]

UNBELIEVABLE!

MICHAEL BLOCK JUST DUNKED A HOLE-IN-ONE!

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

NEW 2 LIVES EPISODE:
After her daughter took her life, Lisa Sorrell said, "I had to make a decision am I going to live or am I going to exist until I stopped breathing? I decided to live."

#MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

@Discover_Pods For #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth 2 Lives -- stories of people who faced darkness and how those moments transformed them. "We all have two lives. The second begins the moment we realize we have only one." https://t.co/w0Pd3I1bCt

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

NEW 2 LIVES EPISODE Her whole life Pardis Mahdavi tried to belong in the US, then in Iran. Finally she decided to be a bridge between two cultures but it took an arrest by the morality police and a crisis of identity to get there.

@pardismahdavi

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

Thrilled to hear 2 Lives on @NPRWeekend this morning! @ayesharascoe After hating her body most of her life @adibanelson gave birth to a daughter with severe disabilities. It changed her attitude and helped her to embrace herself.

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

"Monsters live in the dark. And when you bring those monsters into the light, like the scariness is taken away. And that shame is taken away." #newepisode @rashapecoraro

[Soraya Shockley @sorayashock]

lede: @LouderThanARiot was cut & I have been laid off.

i have never worked with fiercer, funnier, smarter ppl. i am proud of the work we've done, this is npr's L not ours.

my time @NPR has been more trying than i have words for. they talk mad talk, follow thru weak as hell.

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

I share this storytelling award with the brave storytellers for their honesty and vulnerability and my community who lifts me up. #flagstaff

[Laurel Morales @laurelmwrites]

"I get to the showcase and there are women who look like me. There were other big girls and they were taking their clothes off. And the crowd was going nuts for them. And I was like, 'I gotta do this.'"

Listen to @adibanelson 2 Lives story on your favorite #podcast platform.