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Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Hosted by James Thayer, the podcast is a practical, step-by-step manual on how to craft a novel. It presents a set of tools for large issues such as story development and scene construction (Kirkus Reviews said Thayer"s novels are "superbly crafted") and it also examines techniques that will make your sentence-by-sentence writing shine. The New York Times Book Review has said Thayer"s "writing is smooth and clear. it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm only confident stylists achieve.

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Episode 79 - Tips for writing YA fiction. Also:...
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Episode 78 - Developing a distinctive voice, and...
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Episode 77 - Eleven techniques for writing strong...
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Episode 76 - Writing our synopsis, and avoiding filters.
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Episode 75 - The magical difference between scene and...
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Episode 74 - How to describe our villainous villain,...
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Episode 73 - How to make settings work for our story,...
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Episode 72 - Finding an agent, and writing a query.
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Episode 71 - Using the critical tool of contrast. ...
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Episode 70 - Writing a story in the first-person.
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Episode 69 - Learning character and setting...
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Episode 68 - Do we have an idea or a plot? Also: how...
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Episode 67 - Lighting the writing fuse, and showing...
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Episode 66 - Creating characters readers love. Also;...
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Episode 65 - A writer's thoughts on ChatGPT. And the...
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Episode 64 - How to get started writing, and tips on...
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Episode 63 - How to bring our settings to life, and...
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Episode 62 - A technique for bringing our characters...
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Episode 61 - How to detect and fix a sloppy scene. ...
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Episode 60 - Fabulous sentences of fiction, font...
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