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 33 minutes
episode 21: 14.21: Writing The Other — Yes, You Can!
Your Hosts: Dan, Tempest, and DongWon - The single most asked question we get on the subject of writing cultures other than our own is some variation on "can we even DO this anymore?" - Short answer: YES, YOU CAN. -
episode 22: 14.22: Characters out of Their Depth
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard - Sherlock Holmes has his Watson for a reason. Readers need a character to whom some things must be explained. In this episode we talk about how we create these gateway characters without delivering...
episode 23: 14.23: Governments Large and Small
Answering questions about the power structures you live within can help you with the worldbuilding of politics in the fiction you write.
episode 24: 14.24: Political Intrigue
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard - Political Intrigue stories are less about "politics" (as colloquially defined by pop culture) and more about mysteries. Per Mary Robinette, they're often like heists of information.
episode 25: 14.25: Choosing Your Agent
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, Dan, and DongWon - Guest-host Dongwon Song joined us at WXR 2018 as an instructor, and gave great advice regarding the business side of working as an author. In this episode he takes us through a conversation about ...
episode 26: 14.26: Lessons from Aristotle, with Rob Kimbro
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, and Dan, with special guest Rob Kimbro - Rob Kimbro joins us this week to talk about Aristotle's elements of tragedy, and how they might be applied to our writing. The six elements are (in Aristotle's order of desc...
episode 27: 14.27: Natural Setting as Conflict
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard - In this episode we stories with the "Person-vs-Setting" structure. These are stories where nature fills the role of antagonist, and may also be what governs the pacing,
episode 28: 14.28: Warfare and Weaponry
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mahtab - How do you write about warfare in your stories when you've never fought in a war? How do you describe brilliant tactics when you're completely untrained in military movements?
episode 29: 14.29: Field Research
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard - So, you're going to go someplace and learn something you can't learn in any other way. Maybe it's location research for setting. Maybe you're off to interview an expert.
episode 30: 14.30: Eating Your Way to Better Worldbuilding
Your Hosts: Piper, DongWon, Amal, and Maurice - We like food, and we like to talk about food. Our hosts this week talk about how this influences their fiction, (not to mention how incredibly complex [and interesting, and delicious] the subject is.)