Episode 380: Factions in Fiction
Factions: Not great in real life, awesome in fiction.
Wes Matlock
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.
The Penguin Cat