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19.19: A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: An Overview and why A Memory Called Empire
Why is worldbuilding is essential in your writing? Today, we answer this question and dive into some working definitions of how we want to talk about…
1 year, 10 months ago
19.18: How to Build Fictional Economies
Season 19 Episode 18
Sometimes we know the action and themes of your story, but you don’t know how to build an economy that supports those. Well today, we explain just ho…
1 year, 10 months ago
19.17: Novellas- the Goldilocks of Publishing
Season 19 Episode 17
How do you find the right size for your story? And speaking of size, what do novellas do differently than both short stories and novels? What even is…
1 year, 11 months ago
19.16: An Interview with Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
Season 19 Episode 16
Today we get to talk to the inimitable Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. Amal and Max are on the podcast to tell us about how they wrote a book toget…
1 year, 11 months ago
19.15: A Close Reading on Voice: Tying It All Together
Season 19 Episode 15
As we conclude our first deep dive of our close reading series, we want to explore how the evolution of voice helped carry readers throughout "This I…
1 year, 11 months ago
19.14: A Close Reading on Voice- Epistolary Storytelling Through Voice
Season 19 Episode 14
What's epistolary writing? Well, it's writing through letters. But it's also a lot more than that. As we continue to dive into the concept of Voice, …
1 year, 11 months ago
19.13: A Close Reading on Voice: Blue's Perspective - Confidence and Vulnerability
Season 16 Episode 13
On our third episode diving into Voice through the novella “This Is How You Lose The Time War,” we begin to explore the different voices that make up…
1 year, 11 months ago
19.12: A Close Reading on Voice - Red's Perspective - Muscular Prose
Today, we are doing a very close read of Red's opening narration and how Red’s voice communicates both character and world in an effective and effici…
2 years ago
19.11: A Close Reading on Voice- An Overview, and Why Time War
Season 19 Episode 11
The book that became a New York Times Bestseller because of a tweet. Well, it won LOTS of awards when it came out, but it was rediscovered by a Twitt…
2 years ago
19.10: Introducing Our Close Readings Series
Season 19 Episode 10
You’ve probably seen us posting about our Close Reading Series, and in his episode, we finally officially introduce it!
For most of the remainder of …
2 years ago