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Episode 58 - Making writing less daunting, and some techniques to avoid weak sentences.

Episode 58 - Making writing less daunting, and some techniques to avoid weak sentences.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel


Episode 58 - Making writing less daunting, and some techniques to avoid weak sentences.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Apr 28, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

How can we handle the dispiriting feeling that writing our novel is a huge, endless, and hard chore with completion far in the future, if ever?  Here are some thoughts about facing our big writing project.  Also mentioned are some sentence-by-sentence writing mistakes that are easy to avoid.  And this episode presents some specific words we can delete from our manuscript, and our story will magically be better.
Released:
Apr 28, 2023
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.