622 episodes

Helping Writers Become Authors provides writers help in summoning inspiration, crafting solid characters, outlining and structuring novels, and polishing prose. Learn how to write a book and edit it into a story agents will buy and readers will love. (Music intro by Kevin MacLeod.)

Helping Writers Become Authors K.M. Weiland

    • Arts
    • 4.8 • 88 Ratings

Helping Writers Become Authors provides writers help in summoning inspiration, crafting solid characters, outlining and structuring novels, and polishing prose. Learn how to write a book and edit it into a story agents will buy and readers will love. (Music intro by Kevin MacLeod.)

    Ep. 620: How Archetypes Changed My Life and My Writing

    Ep. 620: How Archetypes Changed My Life and My Writing

    When "good writing" strikes its steel upon the flint of archetypes, there is a sudden unity of truth between author and reader.

    • 18 min
    Ep. 619: Here Are Two Ways to Write Organic Themes

    Ep. 619: Here Are Two Ways to Write Organic Themes

    Learn how organic themes arise from plot (and vice versa) and specifically how to recognize five important elements of an organic theme.

    • 20 min
    Ep. 618: Genre Tips: How to Write Literary Fiction

    Ep. 618: Genre Tips: How to Write Literary Fiction

    Learning how to write literary fiction can be helpful not only in writing the genre itself, but in raising the vibration on any type of story.

    • 19 min
    Ep. 617: Genre Tips: How to Write Mystery

    Ep. 617: Genre Tips: How to Write Mystery

    Learning how to write mystery stories involves the most impressive trick of all: outsmarting readers while still playing fair with the clues.

    • 17 min
    Ep. 616: Genre Tips: How to Write Historical Fiction

    Ep. 616: Genre Tips: How to Write Historical Fiction

    Learning how to write historical fiction requires the skills to a well-drawn story, with the added responsibility of evoking times gone by.

    • 20 min
    Ep. 615: Genre Tips: How to Write Romance

    Ep. 615: Genre Tips: How to Write Romance

    Learning how to write romance requires both strong technique and the courage to write vulnerably about this integral part of life.

    • 18 min

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