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Episode 73 - How to make settings work for our story, and how writers get to work each day.

Episode 73 - How to make settings work for our story, and how writers get to work each day.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel


Episode 73 - How to make settings work for our story, and how writers get to work each day.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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Length:
25 minutes
Released:
Aug 11, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Here are two errors we might make when describing our setting.  First, using a dull setting.  And, second, making the setting inert, that is, not having the setting contribute to the story.   Here are techniques to avoid both mistakes.  Plus, we'll look at how other novelists get to work each day, how they manage to sit themselves down and start writing.Support the show
Released:
Aug 11, 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.