Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

163 Episodes

1. Episode 23: Editing our own manuscript

   Published: 7/29/2022
2. Episode 22: A summary of earlier episodes, and techniques for musical writing.

   Published: 7/22/2022
3. Episode 21: Creativity and how to get it.

   Published: 7/15/2022
4. Episode 20 - Reasons we fail to start.

   Published: 7/7/2022
5. Episode 19 - More on modifiers, including the useless and the dangling. And clunky reach words.

   Published: 6/6/2022
6. Episode 18 - Lots of things to avoid: the negative, cliches, and too many modifiers.

   Published: 6/4/2022
7. Episode 17 - Keep it simple but not too simple, and metaphors.

   Published: 5/29/2022
8. Episode 16: Theme, odd questions, more on conflict, and vivid writing.

   Published: 5/21/2022
9. Episode 15 - Techniques for writing about settings.

   Published: 5/16/2022
10. Episode14: The fourth wall, the ending, and some bad writing.

    Published: 5/11/2022
11. Episode 13: More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidences

    Published: 5/6/2022
12. Episode 12 - Dialogue

    Published: 4/28/2022
13. Episode 11: Point of view and voice.

    Published: 4/21/2022
14. Episode 10: More show and tell, and the grammatical person.

    Published: 4/16/2022
15. Episode 9: Showing versus telling

    Published: 4/9/2022
16. Episode 8 - Scene and summary

    Published: 4/4/2022
17. Episode 7 - Crafting a scene

    Published: 3/27/2022
18. Episode 6: Villains and sidekicks.

    Published: 3/23/2022
19. Episode 5: How to develop appealing characters

    Published: 3/10/2022
20. Episode 4: Pace, the first sentence, back-story, over-description

    Published: 3/9/2022