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.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Episode 13: More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidences | 2022-05-06 | ||
| Episode 12 - Dialogue | 2022-04-28 | ||
| Episode 11: Point of view and voice. | 2022-04-21 | ||
| Episode 10: More show and tell, and the grammatical person. | 2022-04-16 | ||
| Episode 9: Showing versus telling | 2022-04-09 | ||
| Episode 8 - Scene and summary | 2022-04-04 | ||
| Episode 7 - How to craft a scene. | 2022-03-27 | ||
| Episode 6: Villains and sidekicks. | 2022-03-23 | ||
| Episode 5: Creating compelling characters. | 2022-03-16 | ||
| Episode 4: Pace, the first sentence, back-story, over-description | 2022-03-09 | ||
| Episode 3 - Go big or go home. | 2022-03-03 | ||
| Episode 2: Getting ready to start writing a novel. | 2022-03-02 | ||
| Episode 1: Learning and getting better at the craft of writing. | 2022-03-02 |