18.49: Giving Your Story A Voice
What does it mean if your writing is voice-y? How do you give your character a natural voice? We...
26:01
18.49: Giving Your Story A Voice
What does it mean if your writing is voice-y? How do you give your character a natural voice? We...
26:01
18.48: NaNoWriMo Week 5 - Writing Endings
Welcome to the last week of National Novel Writing Month! It’s okay if you aren’t going to finish...
25:00
18.47: NaNoWriMo Week 4 - Climaxes, or OH MY GOD NO
It’s week four of NaNoWriMo! Or, National Novel Writing Month, which happens every year for the...
24:13
18.46: NaNoWriMo Week 3 - Raising the Stakes
We are now three weeks into NaNoWriMo—where writers are attempting to write a novel in the month...
22:46
18.45: NaNoWriMo Week 2 - Inciting Incident
Welcome to the first official week of National Novel Writing Month (or, almost the end of this...
24:19
18.44: NaNoWriMo Week 1- Getting Started
Welcome to National Novel Writing Month! For November, writers all over the world are trying to...
21:11
18.43: Worldbuilding in Miniature
If you're writing short fiction, how much of your world do you even need to figure out? Should...
25:59
18.42: Creating Magic Outside of a System
How do you write about magic? How do you build a world with magic and spells and potions? We dive...
29:46
18.41: Deep Dive: Erin's Short Fiction Extravaganza
If you write short stories or enjoy speculative fiction, this episode is for you. Our host Erin...
27:03
18.40: How To Make Money From Your Hobby (with special guest Sandra Tayler!)
Or, The Business of the End of Schlock Mercenary How did Howard start making money from his...
34:30
Deep Dive: Sergeant In Motion How do you write an ending to a book? How do you finish something...
30:28
18.38: How Do You Write A Series With Books That Stand Alone?
Deep Dive: A Function of Firepower How do you write the middle of a book? How do you write an...
27:11
We talk with Howard Tayler about the story structure of a story with a BIG disaster in the middle...
28:25
18.36: The Soggy Middle Pays the Rent (or, "Stand Alone With Series Potential")
How do you write the middle of a book? How do you end your book? How do you know what to write...
28:21
18.35: How to Organize Your Writing, or Managing the Mega-Arc
Let’s talk about organization! This week, we’re talking about how and what to keep track of—...
24:25
18.34: Seventeen Years of Foreshadowing
18.34: 17 Years of Foreshadowing What can Normal Gossip teach us about foreshadowing and artful...
25:38
Bonus Episode! Our first ever half-numbered episode! We are making some changes here on the...
19:49
18.33: Deep Dive: The Schlock Mercenary Finale
The first episode in our eight-episode Deep Dive into Howard’s weekly webcomic strip, Schlock...
29:35
18.32: The Kirsten Vangsness Expansion Pack
We have a special guest episode! Kirsten Vangsness, Criminal Minds star, joins us to talk about...
33:01
What is Publishing For, Anyway?
In this episode, we unpack what the publishing industry is, what exactly it does, and why it does...
26:44
4/24/24 - Foundations pt.12
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