Establishing and Satisfying Plot Threads
How to keep your story on track from beginning to end.
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Establishing Important Characters
How to establish who's the star of the show—and stick to that promise.
Seven Tips for Receiving Feedback
How you can make criticism as constructive as possible.
Five Books on Writing Fantasy, Compared
What these guides will and won't teach you about crafting fantastical stories.
Ten Ways to Inspire Your Description
How to pump up your story's sensory details with a full dramatic punch.
Should You Show or Tell?
How far you should zoom your story in—and when you should zoom out.
Staying Interested in Your Work
How to maintain investment in the stories you craft, even when it wanes.
Should You Outline?
Whether or not to plan your story's big points from the outset—and what you can do instead.
Six Tips for Doing More With Less
How to get your story elements firing on all cylinders.
The Four Rules of Using Fake Words
When and how to use your story's imaginary vocab—and when English can work just fine.
The Myth Called “Running Out of Ideas”
Why your brain really does have more to say—and how to get it talking.
Distinguishing Characters in Dialogue
How your story's stars can shine through their words.
Episode 22: Are Multiple Points of View Good or Bad?
Oren argues that multiple viewpoints are awesome and everyone should love them forever.
Three Ways You Can Use Description to Mess With Your Readers
If they have to reread your story for it to make sense, they're still rereading it, right?
Four Steps for Making Campaigns Into Written Stories
How your RPG story can make the leap from kitchen table to page.
Episode 15: The Hero’s Journey
Chris, Oren and Mike discuss mythic structure and the wide variety of works that use it.
Three Experiments You Shouldn’t Try
Very few have done them before—but that's because they won't work.
Three Ways to Plot With Index Cards
Try these hands-on tricks for planning your next story.
Tying Your Plot Together
How to weave your story's strands together into a cohesive whole.
Life After NaNoWriMo
What to do when you've cracked the 50,000-word threshold.
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