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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 33 - Danger signs our plot is dull.
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Episode 32 - A formula for showing, and clear and...
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Episode 31 - Favorite novels and check-mark plotting.
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Episode 30 - Plotting and the power struggle.
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Episode 29 - The pattern of a novel.
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Episode 28 - The enchanter quality, and weather and...
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Episode 27 - The importance of genres and formulas. ...
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Episode 26 - Navel gazing and how to avoid it. And...
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Episode 25: The magic of writing. Cause and effect....
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Episode 24 - Showing others our work. And strong...
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Episode 23: Editing our own manuscript
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Episode 22: A summary of earlier episodes, and...
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Episode 21: Creativity and how to get it.
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Episode 20 - Reasons we fail to start.
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Episode 19 - More on modifiers, including the useless...
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Episode 18 - Lots of things to avoid: the negative,...
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Episode 17 - Keep it simple but not too simple, and...
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Episode 16: Theme, odd questions, more on conflict,...
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Episode 15 - Techniques for writing about settings.
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Episode14: The fourth wall, the ending, and some bad...
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