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    Episode 74 - How to describe our villainous villain, and how to get unstuck.

    Episode 74 - How to describe our villainous villain, and how to get unstuck.

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Episode 74 - How to describe our villainous villain, and how to get unstuck.

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Length:
    25 minutes
    Released:
    Aug 18, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    A great pleasure in our fiction reading is coming across a dastardly villain, someone so bad and so well-described we will never forget him or her.  Hannibal Lecter.  Nurse Ratched.  Huckleberry Finn's father Pap.   How can writers create such a villain?  Here are techniques, in particular regarding the physical description of the villain.   Also discussed is how we can get unstuck in our plotting or writing.Support the show
    Released:
    Aug 18, 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.