Prologue to the Podcast
New to the podcast? This is a great place to start. Get a brief introduction to the show, find out how you can get involved, and learn a little about your host, Brad Reed.
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Episode 1: Fictionalizing Your Audience
What is the difference between a story that draws you in as if you were a character and a story that doesn’t connect with you at all? It has to do with how the writer has asked his audience to...
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Episode 2: Keeping Your Characters Alive
Making your story come to life… How can we create stories, characters, and settings that come alive for our readers… literally? We’re not talking about about plots or whether your protagonist lives or...
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Episode 3: Sparking Your Creativity
Specific creative techniques we can use to discover and develop unique and compelling characters, plots, and settings in our writing. The first technique, Reversals, helps us: - “Escape from looking at...
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Episode 4: Making Grammar Fun, Funny, and Even a Little Risqué! …with Jenny...
Jenny Baranick, author of “Missed Periods and Other Grammar Scares” Can grammar actually be fun, funny, and even a little sexy? With Jenny Baranick it can! She’s the author of “Missed Periods and...
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Episode 5: Mise-en-scène—A Film Technique That Can Improve Our Fiction
Mise-en-scène is a fundamental technique of film-making that, when we adapt it to our writing, will help our descriptions and settings resonate more deeply with our theme, more fully develop our...
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Episode 6: The Tenets of Fiction Writing …with Alan Heathcock
Alan Heathcock, award winning author of VOLT Alan Heathcock, award-winning author of VOLT, discusses some of his “27 Tenets of Fiction Writing.” Alan Heathcock is a Chicago boy who eventually made his...
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Episode 7: Loose Ends… and Unreliable Narrators
Answering questions and addressing comments from our first 6 episodes as well as a discussion of unreliable narrators. We discuss getting the most out of the writing perspectives of writers and...
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Episode 8: Recognizing and Writing “Glimmers”…with Pam Houston
Pam Houston, Photo by Adam Karsten. We’re talking about glimmers—what they are and how they can fuel our writing—with the wonderfully talented Pam Houston! LINKS: - Pam on Twitter: @Pam_Houston - Pam...
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Episode 9: Defamiliarization
Duchamp’s “Fountain”: an example of defamiliarization What is “defamiliarization?” How does it function in our writing? Can it be applied to “big picture” elements like plot and theme? How can we...
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Episode 10: The Snowflake Method of Novel Design …with Randy Ingermanson
Randy Ingermanson Randy Ingermanson is a theoretical physicist turned writer and writing teacher. He is the author of the best-selling book in the Fiction Writing Reference category on Amazon, Fiction...
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Episode 11: To Adverb or Not to Adverb?
Adverbs. What are they, what do they do, and why are some writers so passionate about banishing them? Brad uses the analogy of adverbs as being like adjusting a carburetor on a 1963 Volkswagen Bug....
View ArticleNo episode for week of June 10th, 2013
Due to a technical problem, this week’s episode of Inside Creative Writing will not be available. Please stay tuned for a new episode next week! - Brad Reed
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Episode 12: Techniques for Writing Dialogue
What is the secret to great dialogue? Brad Reed offers three techniques for helping you figure it out. Show Notes: And we’re back, with apologies for missing last week’s episode. Unfortunately, a...
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Episode 13: Story Structure and the Inciting Event
What do Claymation and writing fiction have in common? Structure! That’s what we’re talking about on today’s show, as well as one of the most important element of structure–the Inciting Event. Brad...
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As of July 8, 2013, the Inside Creative Writing podcast is on temporary hiatus. Please stay tuned for information on new shows coming soon!
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State of the Show Address
Are you a fan of the show? Please take a few minutes as Brad explains some of the changes that are being made, the reason for the delay in programming, and how you can be even more involved than ever!
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Episode 5: Mise-en-scène—A Film Technique That Can Improve Our Fiction
Mise-en-scène is a fundamental technique of film-making that, when we adapt it to our writing, will help our descriptions and settings resonate more deeply with our theme, more fully develop our...
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First of all, a HUGE thank you to the many listeners who continue to email me about their appreciation for the show and their desire to see it return. I had no idea it would be in hiatus for so long....
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Episode 5: Mise-en-scène—A Film Technique That Can Improve Our Fiction
Mise-en-scène is a fundamental technique of film-making that, when we adapt it to our writing, will help our descriptions and settings resonate more deeply with our theme, more fully develop our...
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