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Back to Search15.50: Juggling Ensembles
Season 15 Episode 50
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard Our listeners have asked about how we handle managing a large cast of characters. This is something we…
5 years, 3 months ago
15.49: Maintaining Passion for a Story, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
Season 15 Episode 49
Your Hosts: Dan, Howard, Mahtab, and Brandon This episode comes from a question we're often asked: "how do you stay excited about a story you're work…
5 years, 3 months ago
15.48: Deliberate Discomfort, Part Two
Season 15 Episode 48
Your Hosts: Dan, Mahtab, Howard, and Brandon We've talked about deliberately making our readers uncomfortable. In this episode we discuss writing thi…
5 years, 4 months ago
15.47: Worldbuilding Science Fiction, with Cory Doctorow
Season 15 Episode 47
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Piper, and Howard, with Cory Doctorow Worldbuilding is something you do to some degree in everything you write. Cory Doct…
5 years, 4 months ago
15.46: Crafting Chinese-American Characters
Season 15 Episode 46
Your Hosts: Dan, Piper, and Tempest, with special guest Yang Yang Wang Yang Yang Wang, an author, actor, and director (among many other things) joins…
5 years, 4 months ago
15.45: Worldbuilding Fantasy, with Patrick Rothfuss
Season 15 Episode 45
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, and Howard, with Patrick Rothfuss Pat joins us for a discussion of worldbuilding, in which we field a couple of chal…
5 years, 4 months ago
15.44: Rebooting a Career
Season 15 Episode 44
Your Hosts: Dan, DongWon, Mary Robinette, and Howard What do you do when some of the key foundations of your authorial (or otherwise creative) liveli…
5 years, 4 months ago
15.43: Audiobook Narration, with Bruce D Richardson
Season 15 Episode 43
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Mary Robinette, and Howard, with special guest Bruce D Richardson Bruce D Richardson, who is often credited as BDR, or BD R…
5 years, 5 months ago
15.42: Writing The End
Season 15 Episode 42
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard How do you decide what sort of event ends your story? How do you set the scale and the stakes for that…
5 years, 5 months ago
15.41: Researching the FCK out of Things, with Cory Doctorow
Season 15 Episode 41
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Piper, and Howard, with special guest Cory Doctorow In journalism, that three-character string in our episode title means…
5 years, 5 months ago