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Back to Search17.5: The Promise of the Brand
Season 17 Episode 5
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd Your brand—your name, the cover art for your book, and even the typeface for …
4 years, 2 months ago
17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish
Season 17 Episode 4
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd In the previous episode we discussed how to ensure that your surprise feels i…
4 years, 2 months ago
17.3: Chekov’s Surprising Yet Inevitable Inverted Gun
Season 17 Episode 3
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd This week we're talking about giving inevitability to our intended surprise, …
4 years, 2 months ago
17.2: It Was a Promise of Three Parts
Season 17 Episode 2
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd The title of this episode comes to us from the first paragraph of The Name of…
4 years, 2 months ago
17.1: Genre and Media are Promises
Season 17 Episode 1
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd The genre of your story is making promises to the reader, and the medium upon…
4 years, 2 months ago
16.52: Structure is a Promise
Season 16 Episode 52
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd The structure you're using for your story isn't just helping you organize you…
4 years, 3 months ago
16.51: Promises are a Structure
Season 16 Episode 51
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd Our next 8-episode intensive is all about promises and expectations. Our gues…
4 years, 3 months ago
16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices
Season 16 Episode 50
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler Here at the end of our 8-episode intensive series on Worldbuilding we discu…
4 years, 3 months ago
16.49: Magic and Technology: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Season 16 Episode 49
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler Magic and technology are tools that we, as writers, use to tell interesting…
4 years, 3 months ago
16.48: Believable Worlds Part 2: Creating Texture
Season 16 Episode 48
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler As we do our worldbuilding with similarity, specificity, and selective dept…
4 years, 4 months ago