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Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

James Thayer

Hosted by James Thayer, the podcast is a practical, step-by-step manual on how to craft a novel. It presents a set of tools for large issues such as story development and scene construction (Kirkus Reviews said Thayer's novels are "superbly crafted') and it also examines techniques that will make your sentence-by-sentence writing shine. The New York Times Book Review has said Thayer's "writing is smooth and clear. it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm only confident stylists achieve.
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Episodes
Episode 19 - More on modifiers, including the useless and the dangling. And clunky reach words.June 06, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 18 - Lots of things to avoid: the negative, cliches, and too many modifiers.June 04, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 17 - Keep it simple but not too simple, and metaphors.May 29, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 16: Theme, odd questions, more on conflict, and vivid writing.May 21, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 15 - Techniques for writing about settings.May 16, 2022 Episode artwork Episode14: The fourth wall, the ending, and some bad writing.May 11, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 13: More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidencesMay 06, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 12 - DialogueApril 28, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 11: Point of view and voice.April 21, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 10: More show and tell, and the grammatical person.April 16, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 9: Showing versus tellingApril 09, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 8 - Scene and summaryApril 04, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 7 - Crafting a sceneMarch 27, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 6: Villains and sidekicks. March 23, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 5: How to develop appealing charactersMarch 10, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 4: Pace, the first sentence, back-story, over-descriptionMarch 09, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 3: Finding a fresh plot.March 03, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 1: Learning and getting better at the craft of writing. March 02, 2022 Episode artwork Episode 2: Getting ready to start writing a novel.March 02, 2022 Episode artwork