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Episode 104 - Let's get to work, and showing with dialogue.

Episode 104 - Let's get to work, and showing with dialogue.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel


Episode 104 - Let's get to work, and showing with dialogue.

FromEssential Guide to Writing a Novel

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Length:
26 minutes
Released:
Mar 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

What if we are stymied in our plotting, and can't think of enough story?  Here are some thoughts on how we might get to work.   Also; one of the best ways we can reveal our characters to readers is with the characters' own words, with their dialogue.  Here are some thoughts on showing--as opposed to telling--with dialogue.  Also, this episode contains the words "oaf," "poltroon," and "knucklehead," such words being like salt; they make anything better.Support the show
Released:
Mar 15, 2024
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.