Episode 21: Creativity and how to get it.
Episode 21: Creativity and how to get it.
How can we shake loose from our brains plots for our novels? Here's my favorite way. Plus, benefits and perils of writ... Read more
15 Jul 2022
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25mins
Episode 20 - Reasons we fail to start.
Episode 20 - Reasons we fail to start.
Why don't we begin our novel? Here's a reason, and a way to avoid it. Plus, we'll talk about qualifiers and intensifie... Read more
7 Jul 2022
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25mins
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Episode 19 - More on modifiers, including the useless and the dangling. And clunky reach words.
Episode 19 - More on modifiers, including the useless and the dangling. And clunky reach words.
Many adjective and adverb s do nothing but pad a sentence, making the sentence rickety. Here are some techniques on avo... Read more
6 Jun 2022
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25mins
Episode 18 - Lots of things to avoid: the negative, cliches, and too many modifiers.
Episode 18 - Lots of things to avoid: the negative, cliches, and too many modifiers.
In this episode we focus on sentence-by-sentence writing. How can we make our sentences vivid and powerful? Some stro... Read more
4 Jun 2022
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26mins
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Episode 17 - Keep it simple but not too simple, and metaphors.
Episode 17 - Keep it simple but not too simple, and metaphors.
Our writing should be a clear window to the story, and a technique is to, in Einstein's phrase, keep it simple but not t... Read more
29 May 2022
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25mins
Episode 16: Theme, odd questions, more on conflict, and vivid writing.
Episode 16: Theme, odd questions, more on conflict, and vivid writing.
As writers, should we be concerned with a themes for our stories? And a critical question: are writers allowed to be w... Read more
21 May 2022
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26mins
Episode 15 - Techniques for writing about settings.
Episode 15 - Techniques for writing about settings.
Our setting -- the place and time of the scene -- anchor our characters the the ground. Here are techniques for writing... Read more
16 May 2022
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29mins
Episode14: The fourth wall, the ending, and some bad writing.
Episode14: The fourth wall, the ending, and some bad writing.
Our topics this episode are how to avoid breaking the fourth wall, onomatopoeia (clunk, thud, kersplat), and techniques ... Read more
11 May 2022
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26mins
Episode 13: More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidences
Episode 13: More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidences
Dialogue is so important to our stories that we'll talk more about it here. Then we'll move on to foreshadowing--includ... Read more
6 May 2022
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23mins
Episode 12 - Dialogue
Episode 12 - Dialogue
A fictional character's dialogue sounds like a person speaking in real life, but not too much like a person speaking in ... Read more
28 Apr 2022
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25mins
