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EPISODE · Jun 26, 2026 · 25 MIN

Episode 223 - Readers can fall in love with our settings.

from Essential Guide to Writing a Novel · host James Thayer

I talk about ways we can make our settings--the time and place of our story--irresistible to readers.  They'll want to live there.  Plus: we can use our global search function to almost instantly make our sentences more forceful.  And: novelist Elizabeth George's plotting technique she calls the plot kernel.Support the showBuy the master class.

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