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Back to Search12.20: Retrofitting Structure into a First Draft
Season 12 Episode 20
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley We're speaking again, at least in part, to discovery writers. In this case, we're talking about how …
9 years ago
12.19: Structure on the Fly
Season 12 Episode 19
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard This episode is for you discovery writers, especially those of you for whom our current season of structur…
9 years ago
12.18: Gendered Dialect, with J.R. Johansson
Season 12 Episode 18
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary, and Dan, with guest-host Susan Chang, and special guest J.R. Johannsen J.R. Johannson joined Howard, Mary, Dan, and guest-h…
9 years, 1 month ago
12.17: Q&A on Style, Diction, and Paragraphing
Season 12 Episode 17
Your Hosts: Brandon, Piper, Dan, and Howard We fielded some questions on style, diction, and paragraphing: Is it okay to have pretty prose in a strai…
9 years, 1 month ago
12.16: Writing Crime Fiction with Brian Keene
Season 12 Episode 16
Brian Keene joined Dan and Howard at the World Horror Convention to talk about writing crime fiction, including how he goes about getting readers to …
9 years, 1 month ago
12.15: Pacing With Chapters
Season 12 Episode 15
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley What makes a chapter? WHY is a chapter? How do we chapter, and do we always chapter the same way? Sh…
9 years, 1 month ago
12.14: Controlling Pacing with Structure
Season 12 Episode 14
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard Let's talk about the structural tools we use to control pacing. These include sentence length and punctuat…
9 years, 1 month ago
12.13: Beautiful Prose, Purple Prose
Season 12 Episode 13
The rising, golden sun crested the snowcapped eastern mountains, its first morning rays pouring like molten lemon through the window to glisten and g…
9 years, 2 months ago
12.12: Words as Words, with Linda Addison
Season 12 Episode 12
Your Hosts: Howard and Dan, with Special Guest Linda Addison Linda Addison joined us at the World Horror Convention in 2016 for a discussion of the s…
9 years, 2 months ago
12.11: Diction
Season 12 Episode 11
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley Let's talk about word choice. And when we say "let's" we mean "we're going to talk to you about it. …
9 years, 2 months ago