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Episode 177 - The description double duty technique.

Episode 177 - The description double duty technique.

Released Friday, 8th August 2025
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Episode 177 - The description double duty technique.

Episode 177 - The description double duty technique.

Episode 177 - The description double duty technique.

Episode 177 - The description double duty technique.

Friday, 8th August 2025
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Good descriptions of characters should do double duty: they can let the reader know what the character looks like and the description can also suggest something about the character's personality.  Here are examples and thoughts on double duty descriptions.  Also, how Alice Walker works. 

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Hosted by James Thayer, the podcast is a practical, step-by-step manual on how to craft a novel. It presents a set of tools for large issues such as story development and scene construction (Kirkus Reviews said Thayer's novels are "superbly crafted') and it also examines techniques that will make your sentence-by-sentence writing shine. The New York Times Book Review has said Thayer's "writing is smooth and clear. it wastes no words, and it has a rhythm only confident stylists achieve.

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