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Episode 13:  More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidences

Episode 13: More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidences

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel


Episode 13: More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidences

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
May 6, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dialogue is so important to our stories that we'll talk more about it here.  Then we'll move on to foreshadowing--including the Chekhov's famous gun--and coincidences., where one is fine but two are not.
Released:
May 6, 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.