Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
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About
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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Recent episodes
- Episode 240 - Make readers laugh out loud.
- Episode 239 - A method for ramping up our dialogue.
- Episode 238 - My favorite writing technique.
- Episode 237 - Read to learn rhythm.
- Episode 236 - Six questions to ask if we want to be a novelist.
- Episode 235 - Ten small writing techniques.
- Episode 234 - Creating a character readers will love.
- Episode 233 - Peeling the onion.
- Episode 232 - More on making our dialogue engaging for readers.
- Episode 231 - Techniques to make our dialogue grab readers.