166 Episodes

  1. Episode 6: Villains and sidekicks.

    Published: 3/23/2022

  2. Episode 5: How to develop appealing characters

    Published: 3/10/2022

  3. Episode 4: Pace, the first sentence, back-story, over-description

    Published: 3/9/2022

  4. Episode 3: Finding a fresh plot.

    Published: 3/3/2022

  5. Episode 1: Learning and getting better at the craft of writing.

    Published: 3/2/2022

  6. Episode 2: Getting ready to start writing a novel.

    Published: 3/2/2022

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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.