Category: Inside Creative Writing Podcast Episodes

How do you make your story stand out as something fresh and exciting in a world of millions of stories?[…]

Listen in as award-winning author Pam Houston discusses her process of discovering the material of great writing: glimmers. This is an archive[…]

Why might you want to have an unreliable narrator in your story? That’s what we explore in this episode of[…]

Are there rules to writing great fiction? Well, not really, but there are tenets that can guide you in your[…]

How can a film-making technique for set design help bring your fiction to life? It’s called mise-en-scene and it’s as valuable in[…]

Can grammar actually be fun? Well, when it’s explained by Jenny Baranick, author of Missed Periods and Other Grammar Scares, it will[…]

We’ve all been there. The blank page beckons but we’re out of ideas. Or maybe our only ideas are worn[…]

Wouldn’t it be cool if literary characters were actually alive? In a very real way, they are… as long as[…]

How we can transform our reader from passive consumers of our words into playing a role in our stories? In[…]