Episode 69 - Seasoning the story: how to seed information about character and setting into your work

The Creative Writer's Toolbelt

Jun 16 2016 | 00:17:36

00:00 / 00:17:36

Show Notes

So you've identified the key information about your settings and characters, and now you have to seed it into your work. If you do it right, you can carry your readers into a rich and immersive world with characters they will want to care about; if you do it wrong you may lose your readers altogether. The stakes are that high, and in this episode we explore the techniques and strategies for avoiding the mistakes and making the best of the information you need to give your readers.

Other Episodes

Episode

June 08, 2016 • 00:17:59

Episode 68 - Building characters from the foundations up: how to develop compelling characters & backstory

This episode will guide you though the process of taking the raw material of your character research and ideas, and putting them through the...

Episode 177

June 03, 2022 • 00:46:15

Episode 177: The mind of the warrior. A conversation with Nick Narbutovskih of the US Air Force Special Operations Command

Nick Narbutovskih grew up knowing that he wanted to be a pilot in the military, now Assistant Operations Officer Narbutovskih with Air Force Special...

Episode

August 29, 2016 • 00:25:24

Episode 77 - Listen to the voices! What we can learn about voice from great writing

In this episode we are going to look at a number of very different examples of writing that excel in the area of how...