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Episode 1:  Learning and getting better at the craft of writing.

Episode 1: Learning and getting better at the craft of writing.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel


Episode 1: Learning and getting better at the craft of writing.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

ratings:
Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Mar 2, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Follow the rules.  Go with what works to increase our chances of getting published.  Writing can be learned.  And if we know how to write, we can get better.  A critical ingredient: persistence.  One negative thing about learning to write.  Leaning to concentrate.  And a technique about weeping.
Released:
Mar 2, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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.