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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Title	Date published
Episode 173 - The magic of dialogue.	2025-07-11
Episode 172 - Our first fifteen pages.	2025-07-04
Episode 171 - Top ten list of bad advice for writers.	2025-06-27
Episode 170 - Writing the crowd scene. And guilt and pride.	2025-06-20
Episode 169 - How to find a surefire plot.	2025-06-13
Episode 168 - Making our first sentence sparkle.	2025-06-06
Episode 167 - Revealing our character by the setting.	2025-05-30
Episode 166- Showing our character's thoughts.	2025-05-23
Episode 165 - The rule of exceptions.	2025-05-16
Episode 164 - Design our cover? And the masters on setting details.	2025-05-09
Episode 163 - The benefits of an underdog.	2025-05-02
Episode 162 - The state fair plotting technique.	2025-04-25
Episode 161 - Ways to give readers what they want.	2025-04-18
Episode 160 - Should our story have a theme?	2025-04-11
Episode 159 - A surefire way to generate plot, the sidekick.	2025-04-04
Episode 158 - A lifetime's writing advice reduced to one minute.	2025-03-28
Episode 157 - How we writers can create a world.	2025-03-21
Episode 156 - How to write the fast start.	2025-03-14
Episode 155 - The single most important ingredient in an unforgetable story.	2025-03-07
Episode 154 - Learning from the masterful writer Edna Ferber.	2025-02-28

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