Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 97 - Clothing our characters. Also, how to end a scene.
How we dress our character will show--that is, to reveal--much about our characters to the reader. Clothing is evidence of our character's personali…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 96 - How to create emotions in our characters and readers.
Huge rewards for fiction readers are a character's emotions; love, fear, gratitude, respect, loathing, and many others. Here are techniques on how t…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 95 - More strong dialogue techniques.
In the last episode we talked about major dialogue techniques. Here are smaller ones--but still important techniques--that'll make our dialogue shin…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 94 - Seven big dialogue writing techniques.
Dialogue in fiction is fun to write and fun to read. Here are seven techniques that'll help make our dialogue shine. Also, why should we create a c…
2 years, 8 months ago
Episode 93 - Can we avoid stupid writing?
Let's talk about stupid writing, And: how to get our story going without over-explanation and back-story. How John Updike and Frank Baum wrote. An…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 92 - Fourteen scene mistakes and how to avoid them.
Here is a list of the fourteen biggest mistakes we can make when creating our scene, and how to avoid them. Also, we'll talk about how to avoid the …
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 91 - The benefits of a buddy, and Willa Cather and Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Adding a close friend for our story's protagonist offers many benefits. Here are some thoughts on buddies. And: how did novelists Willa Cather and …
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 90 - Techniques for creating riveting settings.
Bland settings works against the story, and riveting settings propel the story forward. Here are techniques for creating powerful settings that will…
2 years, 9 months ago
Episode 89 - Avoiding the biggest mistakes before we begin to write.
Here are thoughts on how to avoid early mistakes in our writing, those blunders we might make before we write the first sentence of our story. Al…
2 years, 10 months ago
Episode 88 - Writing the fight scene.
Action is the most interesting element in most novels, and a fight is action. Here are some techniques for writing a fight scene. Also, here's an…
2 years, 10 months ago