Writing Craft & Coffee Pod

Jon Sulek

Just an avid sci-fi & fantasy reader and writer. Here to discuss and dissect story mechanics, novel structure, and speculative worlds—over many cups of coffee * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. cseditorial.substack.com

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    Beware the Ides of Page Forty

    Beware the Ides of Page Forty "Good foreshadowing will be noticeable but not analyzed." Discover why obvious hints ruin endings and how to craft the perfect payoff on today's episode! 🎧 * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. Works Referenced * Aristotle. Poetics. Translated by Malcolm Heath. London: Penguin Books, 1996. * Back to the Future. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Universal Pictures, 1985. * Breaking Bad. Created by Vince Gilligan. AMC, 2008–13. * Chinatown. Directed by Roman Polanski. Paramount Pictures, 1974. * Christie, Agatha. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. London: William Collins, Sons, 1926. * Dallas. Created by David Jacobs. CBS, 1978–91. * Forster, E. M. Aspects of the Novel. London: Edward Arnold, 1927. * Game of Thrones. Created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. HBO, 2011–19. * King, Stephen. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. New York: Scribner, 2000. * Knox, Ronald A. Introduction to The Best Detective Stories of the Year, 1928, edited by Ronald A. Knox and H. Harrington. London: Faber & Gwyer, 1929. * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Directed by Peter Jackson. New Line Cinema, 2003. * Lost. Created by Jeffrey Lieber, J. J. Abrams, and Damon Lindelof. ABC, 2004–10. * Morson, Gary Saul. Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. * O’Connor, Flannery. “Good Country People.” In A Good Man Is Hard to Find. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955. * Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. Edited by Sally Fitzgerald and Robert Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. * Rowling, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. * Shakespeare, William. The Riverside Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Edited by G. Blakemore Evans and J. J. M. Tobin. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. * The Sixth Sense. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Buena Vista Pictures, 1999. * Sophocles. The Three Theban Plays. Translated by Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Books, 1984. * Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. * Tolkien, J. R. R. The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. * Tolkien, J. R. R. The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955. * Tolstoy, Leo. Anna Karenina. Translated by Constance Garnett. London: William Heinemann, 1901. * Truffaut, François. Hitchcock. With the collaboration of Helen G. Scott. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967. * Vonnegut, Kurt. Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1999. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit cseditorial.substack.com

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Just an avid sci-fi & fantasy reader and writer. Here to discuss and dissect story mechanics, novel structure, and speculative worlds—over many cups of coffee * Podcast audio files are AI generated using Gemini Notebook based off articles and content written by Jon C. Sulek, Creative Synthesis Editorial. cseditorial.substack.com