Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

163 Episodes

1. Episode 123 - The beauty of a professional submission.

   Published: 7/26/2024
2. Episode 122 - Getting inside a villain's mind.

   Published: 7/19/2024
3. Episode 121 - The biggest mistakes new writers make.

   Published: 7/12/2024
4. Episode 120 - The most important element in fiction.

   Published: 7/5/2024
5. Episode 119 - Making our sentences instantly stronger.

   Published: 6/28/2024
6. Episode 118 - Naming characters and the framing device.

   Published: 6/21/2024
7. Episode 117 - Making multiple submissions, and a strong dialogue technique.

   Published: 6/14/2024
8. Episode 116 - Advice from your lifestyle counselor, and mistakes when describing our setting.

   Published: 6/7/2024
9. Episode 115 - Downer titles and words that echo poorly.

   Published: 5/31/2024
10. Episode 114 - A critical technique to make our story engaging.

    Published: 5/24/2024
11. Episode 113 - The clear window technique.

    Published: 5/17/2024
12. Episode 112 - Writing in the past or present tense, and making submissions.

    Published: 5/10/2024
13. Episode 111 - If we have to have a big meeting, show rather than tell.

    Published: 5/3/2024
14. Episode 110 - Book cover design, and regaining enthusiasm.

    Published: 4/26/2024
15. Episode 109 - How we can stop stalling and get going.

    Published: 4/19/2024
16. Episode 108 - Every description should do double duty.

    Published: 4/12/2024
17. Episode 107 - The differences between literary and commercial fiction.

    Published: 4/5/2024
18. Episode 106 - How to write a scene's sequel, and plotting the novel's middle.

    Published: 3/29/2024
19. Episode 105 - A technique for plotting scene to scene, and my failed writing experiment.

    Published: 3/22/2024
20. Episode 104 - Let's get to work, and showing with dialogue.

    Published: 3/15/2024