236: #236 – How to Craft Character Emotions with Sacha Black
Author and writing teacher Sacha Black returns to the podcast this week to discuss her book The Anatomy of Prose and crafting fully-realized characters. Sacha talks to us about her
Ep. 488: Critique: 10 Ways to Write a Better First Chapter Using Specific Word Choices
Find out how choosing specific and appropriate words for your story can make all the difference in helping you write a better first chapter.
114: How Fiction Writers Can Improve The Quality Of Their Prose
Feel like your writing skills aren't doing your stories justice? I hear you, writer. I love crafting characters, plots, settings, and story worlds, but I lack a natural knack
Ep. 457: How to Use Paragraph Breaks to Guide the Reading Experience
Writers must use paragraph breaks to direct a reader's experience of the story's action and pacing. Here are three guiding principles to keep in mind.
Ep. 446: Words Are Radical! (or, How to Cherish Language)
Words create more than just stories. They create life itself. As custodians of words, writers bear a responsibility to cherish language--and to share it.
How to Decide Between Plain Prose and Beautiful Prose
Writers must know how to craft words that are beautiful because they are true and words that true because they are beautiful. Consider eight principles of writing both plain prose
Don’t Write Scenes–Write Images
Here are six ways you can learn to pay attention to your visual imagination, mine it for its full wealth, and then craft a story that unforgettably shares the riches with your read
Tips for How to Choose the Right Sentences
Learn from these real-time examples how to choose the right sentences for your story, in a way that will make you a better writer with every book you write.
Most Common Writing Mistakes, Pt. 63: Purple Prose
Learn what purple prose is, how to recognize when you're creating it, and how to write genuinely excellent prose in its place.
Writing Voice: 6 Things You Need to Know to Improve It
Here are six important principles of the writing voice, including solid ideas for giving readers a powerfully authentic experience of your stories.
Are You a Writer or a Storyteller?
Understanding whether you are more naturally a writer or a storyteller can help you optimize your strengths and holistically address your weaknesses.
3 Ways to Make Your Writing More Visual
Only a handful of things raise a novel from mediocrity into something truly memorable. Learning how to make your writing more visual is one of them.
