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EPISODE · May 9, 2025 · 29 MIN

Episode 164 - Design our cover? And the masters on setting details.

from Essential Guide to Writing a Novel · host James Thayer

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We are learning fiction techniques, and we are or soon will be skilled fiction writers. Does this mean we should design our own book covers? Also, Michael Chabon's terrific sense of smell. And the use of details in the haunted house. Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more. Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes. The full class—all 20 ...

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