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 7: 13.7: What Writers Get Wrong, with Lou Perry
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard - Lou Perry joined us in front of a live audience at GenCon Indy to talk about law and courtrooms, and what writers get wrong when setting their stories amid legal procedures. -
episode 8: 13.8: Making Characters Distinctive
Your Hosts: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, and Howard - What do we do to make our characters distinctive? Often we categorize the distinctions as flaws or quirks, and in this discussion we use those as our starting points. -
episode 9: 13.9: Quick Characterization
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard - How do you go about defining a character for your readers when you don't have many words to devote to the project? What are the tricks for quickly establishing someone's individuality within your story?
episode 10: 13.10: Handling a Large Cast
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Amal, and Maurice - What are our favorite techniques for managing large casts of characters, and how do our processes differ from when we're writing small casts? What does "large" and "small" mean for us? -
episode 11: 13.11: Writing Secondary Characters, with Charlaine Harris
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard, with special guest Charlaine Harris - Charlaine Harris joined us in front of a live audience at the GenCon Writers Symposium to talk with us about secondary characters—why they're so important,
episode 12: 13.12: Q&A on Heroes, Villains, and Main Characters
Your Cast: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, Howard - You had questions about heroes, villains, and main characters. We have answers! Here are the questions: How do you make planned power increases not seem like an ass-pull¹?
episode 13: 13.13: Character Voice
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard - Character voice, the flow, order, and feel of words that is unique to a particular character, is extremely useful in defining characters for the reader. In this episode we discuss our tools for shaping char...
episode 14: 13.14: Character Nuance
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Amal, and Maurice - Let's talk about characters who have conflict built right into them; characters whose attributes and attitudes might seem to contradict one another; characters who like, y'know... actual people. -
episode 15: 13.15: What Writers Get Wrong, with Mike Stop Continues
Recorded live at WXR 2017. - Your Hosts: Dan, Mary, Aliette, and Howard, with special guest Mike Stop Continues - Mike has multiple areas of expertise, but for this episode he's talking to us specifically about the things that writers get wrong about...
episode 16: 13.16: Avoiding Flat Characters
Your Hosts: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, and Howard - For our purposes, the term "flat character" refers to a character who lacks the depth required to maintain reader interest. In this episode we discuss how to avoid putting flat characters front-and-cente...