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19.39: A Close Reading on Tension: Tying It All Together
Season 19 Episode 39
This episode, we’re talking about how important tension is in creating a world where your readers feel fully immersed. We talk about the importance o…
1 year, 6 months ago
19.38: A Close Reading on Tension: Anticipation and Subversion
Season 19 Episode 38
When you’re subverting your readers’ expectations, do you need to do the exact opposite of what they’re anticipating? Today, we dive into this questi…
1 year, 6 months ago
19.37: A Close Reading on Tension: Movement and Resolution
Season 19 Episode 37
Today, we’re using music as an entry-point for tension. Howard introduces us to the power of the half-step, and other musical metaphors that can help…
1 year, 6 months ago
19.36: A Close Reading on Tension: Narrative vs. Contextual
Season 19 Episode 36
Today, we’re talking about the tension that is actually happening on the page, and the contextual tension is what the reader is bringing to the table…
1 year, 6 months ago
19.35: A Close Reading on Tension: An Overview and Why Ring Shout
Season 19 Episode 35
Compared to This is How You Lose The Time War, which we read earlier this year, Ring Shout deals with a very real world. This discordance, where auth…
1 year, 6 months ago
19.34: Grants and Fellowships
Season 19 Episode 34
Today we have a wildcard episode for you! We are talking about all the different ways you can sustain your writing career. Our host, Erin Roberts, ha…
1 year, 7 months ago
19.33: Workshops and Retreats
Season 19 Episode 33
Today we’re taking a break from our Close Reading Series to discuss writing workshops and retreats! We dive into how to find and prepare to attend a …
1 year, 7 months ago
19.32: An Interview on Character with CL Clark
Season 19 Episode 32
We sat down with CL Clark to talk about character—specifically, how they build different POV characters in the compressed space of a short story. We …
1 year, 7 months ago
19.31: A Close Reading on Character: Tying it All Together
Season 19 Episode 31
Today, we’re taking a higher view on the techniques we’ve been talking about over the last four episodes and focusing on how you can use our takeaway…
1 year, 7 months ago
19.30: A Close Reading on Character: Agency vs. Choices
Season 19 Episode 30
We have a theory that we want to work through on today’s episode: agency is the ability to take action, whereas choices are more about the interior l…
1 year, 8 months ago