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Episode 90 - Techniques for creating riveting settings.

Episode 90 - Techniques for creating riveting settings.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel


Episode 90 - Techniques for creating riveting settings.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Dec 8, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Bland settings works against the story, and riveting settings propel the story forward.  Here are techniques for creating powerful settings that will engage the reader.  Also, the Wall Street Journal's interview of best-selling Ken Follett is fascinating, and here is some of it.Support the show
Released:
Dec 8, 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.