166 Episodes

  1. Episode 126 - Should we hire a book coach?

    Published: 8/16/2024
  2. Episode 125 - When to avoid the proven writing technique.

    Published: 8/9/2024
  3. Episode 124 - Save the cat plotting.

    Published: 8/2/2024
  4. Episode 123 - The beauty of a professional submission.

    Published: 7/26/2024
  5. Episode 122 - Getting inside a villain's mind.

    Published: 7/19/2024
  6. Episode 121 - The biggest mistakes new writers make.

    Published: 7/12/2024
  7. Episode 120 - The most important element in fiction.

    Published: 7/5/2024
  8. Episode 119 - Making our sentences instantly stronger.

    Published: 6/28/2024
  9. Episode 118 - Naming characters and the framing device.

    Published: 6/21/2024
  10. Episode 117 - Making multiple submissions, and a strong dialogue technique.

    Published: 6/14/2024
  11. Episode 116 - Advice from your lifestyle counselor, and mistakes when describing our setting.

    Published: 6/7/2024
  12. Episode 115 - Downer titles and words that echo poorly.

    Published: 5/31/2024
  13. Episode 114 - A critical technique to make our story engaging.

    Published: 5/24/2024
  14. Episode 113 - The clear window technique.

    Published: 5/17/2024
  15. Episode 112 - Writing in the past or present tense, and making submissions.

    Published: 5/10/2024
  16. Episode 111 - If we have to have a big meeting, show rather than tell.

    Published: 5/3/2024
  17. Episode 110 - Book cover design, and regaining enthusiasm.

    Published: 4/26/2024
  18. Episode 109 - How we can stop stalling and get going.

    Published: 4/19/2024
  19. Episode 108 - Every description should do double duty.

    Published: 4/12/2024
  20. Episode 107 - The differences between literary and commercial fiction.

    Published: 4/5/2024

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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.