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Episode 74 - Thirty Years of the Arthur C Clarke Award. A conversation with Award Director Tom Hunter
The UK’s most prestigious Science Fiction literature prize, the Arthur C Clarke award, is 30 this year. In this episode I talk to Award...
Episode 73 - Unlocking the secrets of tone style and voice
This episode marks the start of a new series for the Creative Writer's Toolbelt, looking at the sound of our writing. We're going to...
Episode 72 - Six principles for the perfect setting
This episode wraps up our review of the dimension setting of creative writing, and building on the practical examples of episode 70 we take...
Episode 71 - Interview with Ian McDonald
This episode is a conversation with Northern Ireland based author Ian McDonald. Ian has been a professional writer for over twenty five years, and...
Episode 70 - Three stories - three genres -three settings
Over the past ten episodes of the podcast we've looked at a range of strategies and techniques to make story setting as compelling and...
Episode 69 - Seasoning the story: how to seed information about character and setting into your work
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...