All episodes
18.05: An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal
18.04: An Interview With Dan Wells
18.03: An Interview With Erin Roberts
18.02: An Interview with DongWon Song
18.01: Twenty Twenty-Three, By Way of Introduction
17.52: The WXR 2022 Q&A
17.51: Feel The Burn
17.50: Consistency, Inconsistency, and the Crushing Weight of Expectations
17.49: Bodies Are Magical
17.48: Bodies, Why? (Part III)
17.47: The Linguistics of Disability
17.46: Monstrous Awakening
17.45: Bodies, Tech, and Character
17.44: Bodies, Why? (Part II: Working Through Disability)
17.43: Bodies. Why? (Depicting Disability)
17.42: Eight Embodied Episodes About Disability
17.41: Picture Books are Books Too, with Special Guest Seth Fishman
17.40: Questions & Answers About Structure, with Special Guest Peng Shepherd
17.39: Writing Bodies and Intimacy, with K.M. Szpara
17.38: Oh No I Lost The Thread
17.37: Science and Fiction—It’s Not Just Science Fiction
17.36: Space for Everyone
17.35: Nuances of Dialog
17.34: Developing Subtext
17.33: Building Tension
17.32: Everything is About Conflict
17.31: Everyone Has an Agenda
17.30: Know Your Characters
17.29: The Job of Dialogue
17.28: Keys to Writing Dialog
17.27: Ensembles Behind the Scenes
17.26: Hanging Separately
17.25: Archetypes, Ensembles, and Expectations
17.24: Ensembles and Genre
17.23: Are We Stronger Together?
17.22: Establishing the Ensemble
17.21: Casting Your Story With Character Voice
17.20: Basics of Ensemble Characterization
17.19: Working in a Collaborative Environment
17.18: How to be Funny, with Jody Lynn Nye
17.17: Writing in the Public Domain
17.16: Miscellaneous Structures
17.15: Storytelling in the Footnotes
17.14: Structuring for Disordered or Order-less Reading Order
17.13: Structuring Around a Thing
17.12: Structuring a Story Within a Story
17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines
17.10: Structuring with Multiple POVs
17.9: Let’s Talk About Structure
17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity
17.7: Dissecting Influence
17.6: Hitting Reset Without Getting Hit Back
17.5: The Promise of the Brand
17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish
17.3: Chekov’s Surprising Yet Inevitable Inverted Gun
17.2: It Was a Promise of Three Parts
17.1: Genre and Media are Promises
16.52: Structure is a Promise
16.51: Promises are a Structure
16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices
16.49: Magic and Technology: Two Sides of the Same Coin
16.48: Believable Worlds Part 2: Creating Texture
16.47: Believable Worlds Part 1: The Illusion of Real
16.46: World and Plot: The Only Constant is Change
16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame
16.44: World and Character Part 1: All Your Characters Are Biased
16.43: The Narrative Holy Trinity of World, Character, and Plot, with Fonda Lee
16.42: M.I.C.E. Quotient, After the Fact
16.41: Middles and Conflicts with M.I.C.E. Structure
16.40: Nesting Threads in the M.I.C.E. Quotient
16.39: Deep Dive into “Event”
16.38: Deep Dive into “Character”
16.37: Deep Dive Into “Inquiry”
16.36: Deep Dive into “Milieu”
16.35: What is the M.I.C.E. Quotient?
16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes
16.33: Tell, Don’t Show
16.32: First Page Fundamentals—THE KILLING FLOOR, by Lee Childs
16.31: First Page Fundamentals—MOBY DICK
16.30: First Page Fundamentals—THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
16.29: Building Trust
16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes
16.27: Nobody Wants to Read a Book
16.26: Working With Teams
16.25: Breaking Into Game Writing
16.24: Worldbuilding for Games
BONUS EPISODE! 2021 WXR Early-Bird Announcement
16.23: Rules and Mechanics
16.22: Scenes and Set Pieces
16.21: Player Characters
16.20: Branching Narratives
16.19: Intro to Roleplaying Games
16.18: Poetry and the Fantastic
16.17: The Time To Rhyme
16.16: Poetic Structure: Part II
16.15: Poetic Structure, Part I
16.14: Poetic Language
16.13: Day Brain vs. Night Brain
16.12 : Singing Versus Speaking
16.11: What is Poetry?