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Episode 6: Villains and sidekicks.

Episode 6: Villains and sidekicks.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel


Episode 6: Villains and sidekicks.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Mar 23, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How can we create compelling villains and lovable and maybe eccentric sidekicks?  How many characters should we put in a scene?  How about basing a character on a friend or relative?  And are there tips for naming our characters?  Learn these techniques and more ini this episode.
Released:
Mar 23, 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.