Episode 380: Factions in Fiction
Factions: Not great in real life, awesome in fiction.
Wes Matlock
Wesley edits content for the blog and co-hosts The Mythcreant Podcast with Chris and Oren. He has a teaching and literary background, works as a product manager at his day job, and edits manuscripts on the side. When not working with words or people, he's out in urban forests leading restoration projects or at home in the garden listening to the plants whisper secrets.
Episode 379: Killing a Major Character
To kill or not to kill?
Episode 378: Epistolary Stories
Write a letter to your readers.
Episode 377: Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy
Civilization ended, so it's time for a robe and wizard hat.
Episode 376: Character Strengths
What if a character was just nice and dependable?
Episode 375: The Story’s Middle
How much of a story is middle, anyway?
Episode 374: Travel Stories
Is it the journey or the destination that matters?
Episode 373: Speculative Westerns
It can be horses or space ships, so long as someone has a duster.
Episode 369: Bad Adaptations
More The Hobbit than Lord of The Rings.
Episode 368: Romanticism
A 19th century artistic movement, in MY writing? It's more likely than you think!
Episode 367: Raising the Stakes
The story is tense, but could it be... *more* tense?
Episode 366: Large Casts
How many is too many?
Episode 365: Time Travel Revisited
We have to go back!
Episode 364: The Wheel of Time Show
Is it better than the books? Yes, but better how, exactly?
Episode 363: Verbs
We must all appreciate the hard working verb.
Episode 362: Meta Mysteries
Our main advice on meta mysteries is: don’t.
Episode 361: Ghosts!
Let's play Ghost or No Ghost.
Episode 360: Backstory
How much backstory should your story have?
Episode 359: Metaphors and Similes
We're in the “similes are metaphors” camp.
Episode 358: Non-Violent Conflicts
When we say conflict, we do not necessarily mean physical violence.
Alan