Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

136 Episodes

1. Episode 116 - Advice from your lifestyle counselor, and mistakes when describing our setting.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 4/5/2024
11. Episode 106 - How to write a scene's sequel, and plotting the novel's middle.

    Published: 3/29/2024
12. Episode 105 - A technique for plotting scene to scene, and my failed writing experiment.

    Published: 3/22/2024
13. Episode 104 - Let's get to work, and showing with dialogue.

    Published: 3/15/2024
14. Episode 103 - The joy of creating something out of nothing. And, is our new plot point a strong one?

    Published: 3/8/2024
15. Episode 102 - Lovely sentence-by-sentence writing, and pumping up our creativity.

    Published: 3/1/2024
16. Episode 101 - The phrases notebook, and avoiding our plot bogging down.

    Published: 2/23/2024
17. Episode 100 - Getting into the flow, and the power of fiction.

    Published: 2/16/2024
18. Episode 99 - Traps when writing character-driven stories.

    Published: 2/9/2024
19. Episode 98 - Counterintuitive techniques that new writers might resist.

    Published: 2/2/2024
20. Episode 97 - Clothing our characters. Also, how to end a scene.

    Published: 1/26/2024