PODCAST
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 111 - If we have to have a big meeting, show...
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2024/05/03
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Episode 110 - Book cover design, and regaining...
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2024/04/26
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Episode 109 - How we can stop stalling and get going.
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2024/04/19
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Episode 108 - Every description should do double duty.
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2024/04/12
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Episode 107 - The differences between literary and...
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2024/04/05
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Episode 106 - How to write a scene's sequel, and...
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2024/03/29
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Episode 105 - A technique for plotting scene to...
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2024/03/22
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Episode 104 - Let's get to work, and showing with...
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2024/03/15
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Episode 103 - The joy of creating something out of...
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2024/03/08
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Episode 102 - Lovely sentence-by-sentence writing,...
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2024/03/01
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Episode 101 - The phrases notebook, and avoiding our...
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2024/02/23
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Episode 100 - Getting into the flow, and the power of...
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2024/02/16
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Episode 99 - Traps when writing character-driven...
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2024/02/09
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Episode 98 - Counterintuitive techniques that new...
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2024/02/02
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Episode 97 - Clothing our characters. Also, how to...
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2024/01/26
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Episode 96 - How to create emotions in our characters...
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2024/01/19
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Episode 94 - Seven big dialogue writing techniques.
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2024/01/05
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Episode 92 - Fourteen scene mistakes and how to avoid...
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2023/12/22
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