Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced format. A weekly podcast about the craft and business of writing.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 21 hours 2 minutes
episode 11: 12.11: Diction
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley - Let's talk about word choice. And when we say "let's" we mean "we're going to talk to you about it. You don't actually get to talk back." So maybe "let's" wasn't the best of the possible openers. -
episode 12: 12.12: Words as Words, with Linda Addison
Your Hosts: Howard and Dan, with Special Guest Linda Addison - Linda Addison joined us at the World Horror Convention in 2016 for a discussion of the shapes and sounds of words as seen from the perspective of the poet,
episode 13: 12.13: Beautiful Prose, Purple Prose
The rising, golden sun crested the snowcapped eastern mountains, its first morning rays pouring like molten lemon through the window to glisten and gleam from the chrome grille of the studio microphone.
episode 14: 12.14: Controlling Pacing with Structure
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard - Let's talk about the structural tools we use to control pacing. These include sentence length and punctuation. - - Also, white-space. - - Liner note: Here is the Feb 12,
episode 15: 12.15: Pacing With Chapters
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley - What makes a chapter? WHY is a chapter? How do we chapter, and do we always chapter the same way? Should our chapters be this many parts of speech? This episode will answer these questions and more,
episode 16: 12.16: Writing Crime Fiction with Brian Keene
Brian Keene joined Dan and Howard at the World Horror Convention to talk about writing crime fiction, including how he goes about getting readers to feel the things he wants them to feel to drive the story forward. -
episode 17: 12.17: Q&A on Style, Diction, and Paragraphing
Your Hosts: Brandon, Piper, Dan, and Howard - We fielded some questions on style, diction, and paragraphing: Is it okay to have pretty prose in a straightforward adventure story? How do author voice and character voice differ?
episode 18: 12.18: Gendered Dialect, with J.R. Johansson
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary, and Dan, with guest-host Susan Chang, and special guest J.R. Johannsen - J.R. Johannson joined Howard, Mary, Dan, and guest-host Susan Chang at LTUE 2017 for a discussion of gendered dialect. -
episode 19: 12.19: Structure on the Fly
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard - This episode is for you discovery writers, especially those of you for whom our current season of structure seems to be locking you down, or pointing up methods which you just don't like to use.
episode 20: 12.20: Retrofitting Structure into a First Draft
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley - We're speaking again, at least in part, to discovery writers. In this case, we're talking about how to take a non-outlined work and apply a structure to it in revisions. -