Episode 8: The Literary Color Palette Authors have a number of tools of the trade. Three important ones when conveying and creating emotion are tone, ...

Episode 7: Hook, Line, and Sinker In this episode about grabbing the attention of your reader, we discuss The Hollywood Give, and its close cousin The...

Episode 6: Build a world You have great characters? Fantastic! Now they need somewhere to live. In this episode, we talk about some of the aspects inv...

Episode 5: Flaws and All With the good comes the bad. True in life, true in people, and true in characters. In this episode, we talk about character f...

Episode 4: Character Unless it's about robots, your story is going to be filled with people. In this episode, we discuss the importance of making them...

Episode 3: …From a Certain Point of View Before starting a novel, one of the most important things to do is choosing your story's point of view. In th...

Episode 2: Genre, and the dangers of unprotected writing It's not always fun to look at problems, but when you're preparing to write a novel, you need...

Episode 1: Introduction, Forward What do you need to write a novel? In the premiere episode, we give a brief introduction to the steps every author sh...