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 20 hours 7 minutes
episode 47: 13.47: Q&A on Fixing Characters
Your Hosts: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, and Howard - You had questions about fixing character problems. We had had answers! Here are the questions: How do you fix character voices when you find out that two of them are too similar?
episode 48: 13.48: Character Death and Plot Armor
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard - The characters we create are not all destined for long lives. Sure, some are, but a great many of them are on paths that will end in an abrupt fatality of one kind or another,
episode 49: 13.49: How to Finish
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Amal, and Maurice - Last week we talked about character death. This week we talk about other, less fatal ways in which a character story can be finished, and how we, as writers,
episode 50: 13.50: What Writers Get Wrong, with Zoraida Córdova
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard, with special guest Zoraida Córdova - Zoraida Córdova, an award-winning author of urban fantasy, was born in Ecuador and grew up in Queens. She joins us to talk about what writers get wrong (and wha...
episode 51: 13.51: Wrap-up on the Year of Character
Your Hosts: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, and Howard - We decided to wrap up this year on character by letting Brandon ask us some deep questions. "We decided" might be the wrong phrase, because nobody except Brandon knew what the questions were,
episode 52: 13.52: Working Dad is a Spaceman
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary, and Dan, with NASA astronaut Thomas Marshburn. - Last week's episode may have sounded like the last one for 2018, but that's an artifact of December having five Sundays rather than four. Fifth Sundays are our "wildcards,