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 139 - Writing in the first person.	2024-11-15
Episode 138 - How to live a writer's life.	2024-11-08
Episode 137 - Twenty-one rules of writing.	2024-11-01
Episode 136 - Benefits of a character's otherness.	2024-10-25
Episode 135 - Maybe the strongest writing tool - contrast.	2024-10-18
Episode 134 - A stong technique for describing a character's personality.	2024-10-11
Episode 133 - In our plot what should we save for a sequel?	2024-10-04
Episode 132 - How to avoid the main reason readers stop reading a novel.	2024-09-27
Episode 131 - A review of the ten strongest writing techniques.	2024-09-20
Episode 130 - Kurt Vonnegut's rules of writing, and powerful character descriptioins.	2024-09-13
Episode 129 - A scene with too many mistakes. Can we spot them?	2024-09-06
Episode 128 - Should we be afraid our plot has been done before?	2024-08-30
Episode 127 - Go big or go home plotting.	2024-08-23
Episode 126 - Should we hire a book coach?	2024-08-16
Episode 125 - When to avoid the proven writing technique.	2024-08-09
Episode 124 - Save the cat plotting.	2024-08-02
Episode 123 - The beauty of a professional submission.	2024-07-26
Episode 122 - Getting inside a villain's mind.	2024-07-19
Episode 121 - The biggest mistakes new writers make.	2024-07-12
Episode 120 - The most important element in fiction.	2024-07-05

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