Essential Guide to Writing a Novel
by James Thayer
April 12, 2024 11:00 pm
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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Episode 108 - Every description should do double duty.
1 week agoEpisode 107 - The differences between literary and commercial fiction.
2 weeks agoEpisode 106 - How to write a scene's sequel, and plotting the novel's middle.
3 weeks agoEpisode 105 - A technique for plotting scene to scene, and my failed writing experiment.
4 weeks agoEpisode 104 - Let's get to work, and showing with dialogue.
1 month agoEpisode 103 - The joy of creating something out of nothing. And, is our new plot point a strong one?
1 month agoEpisode 102 - Lovely sentence-by-sentence writing, and pumping up our creativity.
2 months agoEpisode 101 - The phrases notebook, and avoiding our plot bogging down.
2 months agoEpisode 100 - Getting into the flow, and the power of fiction.
2 months agoEpisode 99 - Traps when writing character-driven stories.
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