Welcome to episode 171 of the Creative Writers Toolbelt.
My guest today is the author, writing consultant, and presenter Claire Taylor. Claire will be known to many of you as one-half of the team at the Sell More Books Show with her co-presenter, Bryan Cohen.
In this episode we talk about what narrative cohesion is and why it matters, the way in which characters operate on a physical, emotional, and philosophical level, and how to use, (and how not to use) tropes, this was a really fun conversation I enjoyed talking to Claire, I hope you enjoy listening to it, here it is.
In this episode we condense about 2,300 years of story theory into ten minutes(!) and then look at four practical lessons we can apply...
Nothing holds the reader in your story like a compelling, authentic character, and an essential element of developing a character is developing their character...
In this episode we explore the unavoidable truth that writing is really hard work. We look at why that is the case and think...
