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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2022-10-07
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Episode 32 - A formula for showing, and clear and spare writing.
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2022-09-30
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Episode 31 - Favorite novels and check-mark plotting.
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2022-09-23
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Episode 30 - Plotting and the power struggle.
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2022-09-16
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Episode 29 - The pattern of a novel.
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2022-09-09
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Episode 28 - The enchanter quality, and weather and rudeness.
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2022-09-02
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Episode 27 - The importance of genres and formulas. And thoughts about titles.
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2022-08-26
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Episode 26 - Navel gazing and how to avoid it. And more on showing
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2022-08-19
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Episode 25: The magic of writing. Cause and effect. And thinking.
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2022-08-12
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Episode 24 - Showing others our work. And strong sentence-by-sentence writing techniques.
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2022-08-05
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Episode 23: Editing our own manuscript
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2022-07-29
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Episode 22: A summary of earlier episodes, and techniques for musical writing.
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2022-07-22
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Episode 21: Creativity and how to get it.
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2022-07-15
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Episode 20 - Reasons we fail to start.
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2022-07-07
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Episode 19 - More on modifiers, including the useless and the dangling. And clunky reach words.
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2022-06-06
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Episode 18 - Lots of things to avoid: the negative, cliches, and too many modifiers.
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2022-06-04
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Episode 17 - Keep it simple but not too simple, and metaphors.
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2022-05-29
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Episode 16: Theme, odd questions, more on conflict, and vivid writing.
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2022-05-21
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Episode 15 - Techniques for writing about settings.
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2022-05-16
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Episode14: The fourth wall, the ending, and some bad writing.
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2022-05-11
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