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Back to Search13.37: What Writers Get Wrong, with J.Y. Yang
Season 13 Episode 37
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary, Aliette, and Howard with special guest J.Y. Yang J.Y. Yang is a Hugo-nominated short story writer from Singapore who identifie…
7 years, 6 months ago
13.36: Confronting the Default
Season 13 Episode 36
Your Hosts: Brandon, Amal, Mary, and Maurice If you live in the northern hemisphere, inland, perhaps above the 40th parallel, you are probably quite …
7 years, 6 months ago
13.35: Cliché vs. Archetype
Season 13 Episode 35
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard Tropes, archetypes, and even cliches are tools in our toolboxes. There's no avoiding them, but there are d…
7 years, 6 months ago
13.34: Q&A on Character Arcs
Season 13 Episode 34
Your Hosts: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, and Howard You had questions. We came up with answers. The questions are below: How do you fulfill promises about …
7 years, 7 months ago
13.b1: Bonus Episode — Elephants and Death, with Lawrence Schoen
Season 13
Your Hosts: Howard and Dan, with special guest Lawrence Schoen Lawrence Schoen, clinical psychologist, cognitive hypnotist, small press publisher, Kl…
7 years, 7 months ago
13.33: Reading Outside the Box
Season 13 Episode 33
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary, Aliette, and Howard, with Kristie Claxton Kristie Claxton joined us at WXR 2017 to talk about reading outside of the spaces wh…
7 years, 7 months ago
13.32: How To Handle Weighty Topics
Season 13 Episode 32
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Amal, and Maurice How can we, as writers, best handle weighty matters? This is our year on character, so we'll approach th…
7 years, 7 months ago
13.31: Learning to Listen as a Writer
Season 13 Episode 31
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard "Write what you know" gets misapplied a lot. In this episode we'll talk about how to know things by listen…
7 years, 7 months ago
13.30: Project in Depth, THE CALCULATING STARS, with Kjell Lindgren
Season 13 Episode 30
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, and Dan, with Kjell Lindgren Spoiler Alert! If you haven't yet read The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel, by Mary…
7 years, 8 months ago
13.29: Iconic Heroes
Season 13 Episode 29
Your Hosts: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, and Howard The term "iconic hero" allows us to differentiate between different kinds of heroes who appear in serie…
7 years, 8 months ago