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 20: 16.20: Branching Narratives
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, James L. Sutter, Dan Wells, Cassandra Khaw, and Howard Tayler - How do you give players meaningful choices while still keeping the story within a reasonable set of boundaries?
episode 21: 16.21: Player Characters
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, James L. Sutter, Dan Wells, Cassandra Khaw, and Howard Tayler - So, you're the hero of your own story, and the hero gets choices, and in many ways directs the story. In our discussion of interactive fiction and writin...
episode 22: 16.22: Scenes and Set Pieces
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler - Let's have a discussion about scenes and set pieces, and let's lead with this: prose writers often create longer pieces using scenes as building blocks,
episode 23: 16.23: Rules and Mechanics
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler - Let's talk about how players interact with the mechanics of the game, and what kinds of requirements those might put on the writers. -
episode 25: 16.25: Breaking Into Game Writing
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler - So, after all this talk about designing games and writing for games, it's time to address the big question: how does one go about getting a game-design/g...
episode 26: 16.26: Working With Teams
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler - Our series of game writing episodes draws to a close with a discussion about working with teams. This last skill set,
episode 27: 16.27: Nobody Wants to Read a Book
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler - Our controversial episode title comes to us via John Schwarzwelder, and it points up nicely the importance of today's topic, which is first lines, first pages,
episode 28: 16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler - Let's have a frank, and possibly painful discussion about the ways in which the first page can go wrong. It may seem like hackneyed writing advice,
episode 29: 16.29: Building Trust
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler - How do we build trust with our readers? What does that even mean? In this episode we discuss ways in which we let our readers know what they can expect from the book they'r...
episode 30: 16.30: First Page Fundamentals—THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler - In this episode we explore the first page of The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson, with the goal of learning how to build good first pages for own own work. -