Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 214 - Famous writers show us how to write and live.
If we emulate famous authors, won't we get better at writing? Here are how some highly-skilled, best-selling authors write and live. Plus: the thre…
8 hours ago
Episode 213 - Save the cat plotting.
How can we get readers to admire and respect our hero, maybe even to fall in love with him? Our hero can save the cat. Here is how the screenwriter…
1 week ago
Episode 212 - Getting skilled with point of view.
Keeping a tight point of view is critical for our story. Here's how we can stay inside the mind of our main character yet learn what others in the s…
2 weeks ago
Episode 211 - How to have fun while writing.
Sometimes writing can be a grind. Here are things that are fun while writing that'll give us energy and keep us at our desks and allow us to pour jo…
3 weeks ago
Episode 210 - Timeless plot patterns.
Folks new to fiction may think because there are a million stories and dozens of genres, plots can be presented in any way imaginable. But successfu…
4 weeks ago
Episode 209 - Avoiding blunders in our story.
How and why should we avoid our character traveling? And how does Orson Scott Card not make blunders in his novels? Here is his tool for having a …
1 month ago
Episode 208 - How to paint pictures with words.
Writing is magic. We type on a keyboard, and then the words we type create powerful images in readers' minds. Here is a discussion of our main tool…
1 month, 1 week ago
Episode 207 - When the hero lies to the reader.
Sometimes an unreliable narrator can be great fun to create, and great fun to read about. Here are techniques for developing a protagonist the reade…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Episode 206 - How to get lots of plot ideas.
Novelist John D. McDonald said he had more plot ideas than time to write them. That's not the case for most of us writers. We usually are in chroni…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Episiode 205 - How to stop stalling and get going.
Sometimes we are full of ambition to write. Yet we don't. We put off our writing, then put it off again. Why do we do that? And what can be done…
2 months ago