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 180 - The critical distance between the reader and the action. 2025-08-29
Episode 179 - The critical writing techniques all in one episode. 2025-08-22
Episode 178 - How to make readers laugh. 2025-08-15
Episode 177 - The description double duty technique. 2025-08-08
Episode 176 - Inventing a fabulous title. 2025-08-01
Episode 175 - Writing funny dialogue. 2025-07-25
Episode 174 - How to ruin our story's first sentences. 2025-07-18
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
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