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    Episode 67 - Lighting the writing fuse, and showing rather than telling about the setting.

    Episode 67 - Lighting the writing fuse, and showing rather than telling about the setting.

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Episode 67 - Lighting the writing fuse, and showing rather than telling about the setting.

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Length:
    26 minutes
    Released:
    Jun 30, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    What in our lives made us want to write?  Here's a discussion about lighting that fuse.  Also: here are techniques for showing rather than telling about our story's setting.  And discussed also is a wonderful way to learn to write that takes little extra time or effort.  Finally, how to write dialogue when the characters are afraid.Support the show
    Released:
    Jun 30, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    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.