#73: Beyond the First Draft: 5 Storytelling Techniques for Better Story Structure
How can you be more efficient with structuring your story? How do you balance structure while keeping the story fresh and surprising? In this episode we're going to talk about 5 essential storytelling...
22 Des 202129min
#72: Beyond the First Draft: 3 Ways to Craft a Compelling Point of View
Do you ever feel like you're tying yourself up in knots with all the different points of view your story has? POV is one of the most misunderstood and often poorly taught story elements. It's also on...
15 Des 202120min
#71: Beyond the First Draft: Captivating Characters
You have your first draft. Or maybe you're stalled in your current work in progress. Now what? How do you finish what you started? Today, you'll learn how to move forward with your work in progress, ...
8 Des 202122min
#70: Five Common Writing Traps and How to Avoid Them
There's a lot of writing advice floating around. But most of it shackles writers more than it helps, and sometimes leads to paint-by-number stories. In this episode, learn common traps when it comes ...
1 Des 202119min
#69: How to Create Plot Continuity With Character Thought
What does character thought have to do with plot? It's the connective tissue that brings continuity to your story, scene by scene. It helps fill in all those plot holes. And it keep your reader ground...
17 Nov 202114min
#68: How to Use Subplots to Amplify Your Novel
How do you harness the depth and complexity of your story material? And orchestrate all those story threads so that they intensify your plot? By creating subplots. Learn two ways subplots work, plus...
10 Nov 202112min
#67: The Most Overlooked Way to Show (Don't Tell) How a Character Feels
What’s the most overlooked way to show how a character feels? The vowel scale - the poet's secret weapon. Just like musical notes, vowel sounds have frequencies that create vibrations in the reader'...
3 Nov 202112min
#66: Two Simple Ways to Amp Up Suspense
How do you create the kind of suspense that keeps readers riveted to your pages, hanging on every sentence? Suspense doesn't happen in the broad strokes - trouble, cliffhangers, sympathetic charact...
27 Okt 202120min
