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 41: 15.41: Researching the FCK out of Things, with Cory Doctorow
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Piper, and Howard, with special guest Cory Doctorow - In journalism, that three-character string in our episode title means "Fact Check." Those three characters are a great way to drop a note to yourself,
episode 42: 15.42: Writing The End
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard - How do you decide what sort of event ends your story? How do you set the scale and the stakes for that event? And once you've made these decisions, how do you set about writing the best possible ending?...
episode 43: 15.43: Audiobook Narration, with Bruce D Richardson
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Mary Robinette, and Howard, with special guest Bruce D Richardson - Bruce D Richardson, who is often credited as BDR, or BD Richardson, is a voice-over actor and audiobook narrator.
episode 44: 15.44: Rebooting a Career
Your Hosts: Dan, DongWon, Mary Robinette, and Howard - What do you do when some of the key foundations of your authorial (or otherwise creative) livelihood are kicked away? How do you go about repairing, rebuilding, or rebooting your career? -
episode 45: 15.45: Worldbuilding Fantasy, with Patrick Rothfuss
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, and Howard, with Patrick Rothfuss - Pat joins us for a discussion of worldbuilding, in which we field a couple of challenging questions from readers. Here are the questions! -
episode 46: 15.46: Crafting Chinese-American Characters
Your Hosts: Dan, Piper, and Tempest, with special guest Yang Yang Wang - Yang Yang Wang, an author, actor, and director (among many other things) joins us for a discussion of language, food, and a whole raft of other cultural elements critical to craf...
episode 47: 15.47: Worldbuilding Science Fiction, with Cory Doctorow
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Piper, and Howard, with Cory Doctorow - Worldbuilding is something you do to some degree in everything you write. Cory Doctorow writes (among many other things) near-future SF,
episode 48: 15.48: Deliberate Discomfort, Part Two
Your Hosts: Dan, Mahtab, Howard, and Brandon - We've talked about deliberately making our readers uncomfortable. In this episode we discuss writing things that make us uncomfortable. Maybe it's writing strong language, or sex scenes.
episode 49: 15.49: Maintaining Passion for a Story, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
Your Hosts: Dan, Howard, Mahtab, and Brandon - This episode comes from a question we're often asked: "how do you stay excited about a story you're working on?" We talk about how we maintain our passion for the stories we're working on,
episode 50: 15.50: Juggling Ensembles
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard - Our listeners have asked about how we handle managing a large cast of characters. This is something we've all struggled with, and sometimes we've failed at it pretty spectacularly.