Episode 312: Bias Free Language
A phrase that sounds perfectly harmless to one person can be deeply unsettling to another.
Wordcraft: Page 3
Breaking Your Prose in the Right Places
Where we break our prose at any level affects how it feels.
Lessons From the Exposition of Crescent City
Confusing info dumps and lack of plot focus make this a disorienting opening.
Episode 288: Melodrama
Behold, a podcast with emotions so deep you can feel them in your bones!
Five Common Problems With Metaphors
Boring or inconsistent metaphors can drag your story to a halt.
Description Makeover: Creating Magical Atmosphere
It takes practice to figure out how to create a strong impression and make every word count.
Episode 279: The City in the Middle of the Night
The season of Hugos is upon us, and Mythcreants is getting into the award-winning spirit!
Five Common Dialogue Mistakes and How to Fix Them
How to sound natural but not too natural.
Episode 262: Describing Characters
In real life, we have our eyeballs to tell us what something looks like.
Lessons From the Purple Writing of The Witcher
Monsters have nothing on the horrors of confusing wordcraft and muddled description.
Taming Your Exposition
Skilled use of exposition is a matter of balance: not too much, not too little.
Lessons from the Disingenuous Writing of Maximum Ride
A smarmy protagonist and an inconsistent tone undercuts Maximum Ride's hopes for a tense opening.
Five More Wordcraft Questions Writers Fight Over
Sometimes writers just want a simple answer to a technical question, but everyone is telling them different things.
Episode 237: Copy Editing
In the land between writer and reader, there lies the copy editor.
How to Avoid Melodrama in Your Writing
You can't create emotional impact by telling readers what to feel.
Narrating a Close Point of View
Bring your readers closer to feeling like the story is happening to them.
Lessons From The Maze Runner’s Point of View Disaster
Master perspective before it masters you.
Six Common Wordcraft Mistakes in Manuscripts
We see these issues over and over again during editing.
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