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    Episode 83 - How to show our character's thoughts to avoid interior monologue.

    Episode 83 - How to show our character's thoughts to avoid interior monologue.

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Episode 83 - How to show our character's thoughts to avoid interior monologue.

    FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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    Length:
    26 minutes
    Released:
    Oct 20, 2023
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Here are ways to show with action and dialogue what our character is thinking so we can avoid visiting the character's mind for interior monologue, usually the least interesting element of a story.   And we visit Somerset Maugham, Truman Capote, and Herman Melville.Support the show
    Released:
    Oct 20, 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.