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Story from Scratch — 82 episodes

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Story from Scratch #80: Prioritization (Quick Bits)

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Story from Scratch #79: Everything I Make Sucks (Quick Bits)

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Story from Scratch #78: Writing for Webcomics ft. Kevin Valentine

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Story from Scratch #77: Comics and KRZ ft. Kevin Valentine

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Story from Scratch #76: Falling in and out of Love with Stories (Quick Bits)

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Story from Scratch #75: Frontloading Characters

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Story from Scratch #74: Tales from Speculative North

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Story from Scratch #73: Our Future Writing Plans (Quick Bits)

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Story from Scratch #72: Obfuscation

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Story from Scratch #71: Cringing at Our Early Writing

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Story from Scratch #70: Dynamic Character Arcs (Quick Bits)

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Story from Scratch #69: When to Stop (Quick Bits)

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Story from Scratch #68: Pretentious Themes (Quick Bits)

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Story from Scratch #67: Our Favourite Writing Tools (Quick Bits)

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Story from Scratch #66: Things We Like About Writing

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Story from Scratch #65: On Rewriting

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Story from Scratch #64: Writing for Children ft. Peter G. Reynolds

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Story from Scratch #63: The Impact of Writing Groups ft. Peter G. Reynolds

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Story from Scratch #62: Dealing with Uncertainty

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Story from Scratch #61: Querying Q&A

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Story from Scratch #60: Choosing an Agent

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Story from Scratch #59: Step-By-Step Guide To Querying

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Story from Scratch #58: Intro to Querying

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Story from Scratch #57: Writing With Feeling

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Story from Scratch #56: Romance for Dessert ft. Anahita Eftekhari

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Story from Scratch #55: Going On Tangents ft. Anahita Eftekhari

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Story from Scratch #54: Justin's Dark Secret

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Introducing Final Piece

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Story from Scratch #53: 2020 Writing and Mental Health Recap

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Story from Scratch #52: Fight Club is Amazing & Shutter is Very Scary

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Story from Scratch #51: The Origin and Reasons Behind "From Scratch" Ft. Scott Thrower

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Story from Scratch #50: Success in Self-Publishing ft. Scott Thrower

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Story from Scratch #49: Storytelling as a Podcast ft. Scott Thrower

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Story from Scratch #48: Horror as Genre vs. Horror as Story Element ft. Y. M. Pang

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Story from Scratch #47: Is Editing Pointless? ft. Y. M. Pang

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Story from Scratch #46: Attack of the Crocoballoons ft. Y. M. Pang

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Story from Scratch #45: The Short Story Market ft. Y. M. Pang

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Story from Scratch #44: Top 5 Twist Endings of All Time

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Story from Scratch #43: Twist Endings for Classics

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Story from Scratch #42: Harpies and Cyclopses Oh My!

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Story from Scratch #41: What Makes a Satisfying Twist?

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Story from Scratch #40: Q&A: Internal Consistency and Three-Dimensional Characters

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Story from Scratch #39: Star Wars—I Mean Star TREK—Beyond ft. K. M. McKenzie

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Story from Scratch #38: Are prologues really useless? ft. K. M. McKenzie

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Story from Scratch #37: Lost on an Island

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Story from Scratch #36: On Writing Groups ft. K. M. McKenzie

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Story from Scratch #35: Surviving as a Writer During Quarantine

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Story from Scratch #34: Time Travel in Rick and Morty Is So Good

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Story from Scratch #33: Dirigible Chase!

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Story from Scratch #32: 2019: Hot Streaks, Setbacks, and Stories from Scratch

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Story from Scratch #31: Make Action Scenes Engaging Again

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Story from Scratch #30: What's scary? And The Babadook

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Story from Scratch #29: Worthwhile Struggle and End of Act 1

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Story from Scratch #28: Character Work

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Story from Scratch #27: Brainstorming

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Story from Scratch #26: Actually Good Writing Advice (Minisode)

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Story from Scratch #25: Mary Sue

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Story from Scratch #24: Prologues and Planet Building

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Story from Scratch #23: Gathering the Band (again)

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Story from Scratch #22: First Draft Revelation

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Story from Scratch #21: Yale Wang - An Aspiring Writer's Retrospective

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Story from Scratch #20: Assembling the Band

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Story from Scratch #19: Captain and Cyborg

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Story from Scratch #18: A Journey (Season Two)

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Story from Scratch PSA: Season Two Trailer!

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Story from Scratch #17: Magic Systems

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Story from Scratch #16: Essence of a Story

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Story From Scratch #15: Justin Dill - A Writer's Retrospective

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Story From Scratch #14: Writing Woes

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Story from Scratch #13: Lens Theory (Sherlock pt. 2)

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Story from Scratch #12: Sherlock from Scratch

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Story from Scratch #11: How We Prepare to Write

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Story from Scratch #10: Coming Back from a Break

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Story from Scratch #9: Top 7 Questions About Writing

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Story from Scratch #8: Writing Epic Fantasy and The Musical Death Note

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Story from Scratch #7: Reacting to Criticism and Dorian Gray

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Story from Scratch #6: Magic & Endings

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Story from Scratch #5: Sanctuary (Minisode)

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Story from Scratch #4: A Great First Chapter

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Story from Scratch #3: A Good First Paragraph

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Story from Scratch #2: Developing a Premise

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Story from Scratch #1: World-building around Non-standard Combat