Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

A podcast by James Thayer - Fridays

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136 Episodes

  1. Episode 16: Theme, odd questions, more on conflict, and vivid writing.

    Published: 5/21/2022
  2. Episode 15 - Techniques for writing about settings.

    Published: 5/16/2022
  3. Episode14: The fourth wall, the ending, and some bad writing.

    Published: 5/11/2022
  4. Episode 13: More on dialogue, and techniques about foreshadowing and coincidences

    Published: 5/6/2022
  5. Episode 12 - Dialogue

    Published: 4/28/2022
  6. Episode 11: Point of view and voice.

    Published: 4/21/2022
  7. Episode 10: More show and tell, and the grammatical person.

    Published: 4/16/2022
  8. Episode 9: Showing versus telling

    Published: 4/9/2022
  9. Episode 8 - Scene and summary

    Published: 4/4/2022
  10. Episode 7 - Crafting a scene

    Published: 3/27/2022
  11. Episode 6: Villains and sidekicks.

    Published: 3/23/2022
  12. Episode 5: How to develop appealing characters

    Published: 3/10/2022
  13. Episode 4: Pace, the first sentence, back-story, over-description

    Published: 3/9/2022
  14. Episode 3: Finding a fresh plot.

    Published: 3/3/2022
  15. Episode 2: Getting ready to start writing a novel.

    Published: 3/2/2022
  16. Episode 1: Learning and getting better at the craft of writing.

    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.