Essential Guide to Writing a Novel

Hosted by James Thayer, the podcast is a practical, step-by-step manual on how to craft a novel. It presents a set of tools for large issues such as story development and scene construction (Kirkus Reviews said Thayer’s novels are “superbly crafted’) and it also examines techniques that will make your sentence-by-sentence writing shine. The New York Times Book Review has said Thayer’s ”writing is smooth and clear. it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm only confident stylists achieve.

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