Releasing your inner dragon
Welcome to the world of creative writing and story mastery with Maxwell Alexander Drake and Marie Mullany, your guides to Releasing Your Inner Dragon. This author podcast is a treasure trove of writing tips and advice, sparking inspiration and ah-ha moments for every stage of an author’s career.
Drake, an award-winning novelist and creative writing teacher, brings his experience from the gaming world and beyond, while Mullany, author of the Sangwheel Chronicles and YouTuber, shares her expertise in fantasy world-building. Together, they delve into the intricacies of crafting compelling narratives, offering invaluable writing resources and insights. Connect with this dynamic duo and join a community of listeners passionate about storytelling and writing more immersive books.
Listen and learn from the podcast and connect with your hosts:
MaxwellAlexanderDrake.com
Starvingwriterstudio.com
Mariemullany.com
youtube.com/c/JustInTimeWorlds
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 192
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Writing with allegories, when does it work and what makes it fail.
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss writing fantasy stories that contain allegories. They'll talk about when it works well, when it doesn't work at all and what happens when you leave …
Making believable fantasy worlds & characters
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss multiple point of view characters, when to use them, which characters to pick and how to tell a story that needs multiple perspectives. Also, what m…
Plotting a Novel: How to end your story
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss plotting the second book in the Skies of Destiny series. In this episode, they work through the final act and decide how the novel should end. The p…
Plotting a novel - Think like the Villain
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss plotting the second book in the Skies of Destiny series. In this episode, they turn their thoughts to a villain and design the plot from his perspec…
Mistakes writers make in creating tension and how to fix them
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss the different kinds of tension you can use in a story, in a scene or in a chapter. They cover the common mistakes both plotters and pantsers make an…
Unresolved themes are a problem
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss the problem with accidentally introducing very heavy themes into your world and then just not addressing them.
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Plotting a novel - Sometimes the better ending requires major changes
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss plotting the second book in the Skies of Destiny series. In this episode, they hit their heads against a wall of disagreement multiple times... Unti…
The problem with inflicting nothing but misery on your characters
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss why they've stopped reading some of the grimdark authors out there and why readers lose faith with authors who just hurt their characters and never …
Plotting a Book - Make Sure you like your tropes!
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss plotting the second book in the Skies of Destiny series. In this episode, they explore various potential overcomes and endings. They talk about the …
Making believable fantasy worlds & characters
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss what believability in fantasy and sci-fi. Follow along as they plunge into rabbit holes about building characters and how to keep the reader's trus…
Plotting a Book - Transitioning from Act 1 to Act 2
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss plotting the second book in the Skies of Destiny series. In this episode, they focus on what you need to make Act 2 work and the importance of think…
Writer's Craft - Chapters, Scenes and Dialogue
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss what makes a scene, what makes a chapter and how to punctuate dialogue.
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One hundred hours spent on the craft of writing
Edit: Had a snafu with the upload (because of course), if you're hearing the previous episode repeated, try to get the episode again.
Join Drake and Marie on the 100th episode of Releas…
Writer's Craft - Punctuation for Prose (because it is important)
Join Drake and Marie as the discuss punctuation including commas, semi-colons, em-dashes, sentence structure, paragraph structure and capitalization!
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Plotting a Book - Character Motivation and Story Threads
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss plotting the second book in the Skies of Destiny series. In this episode, they focus on the call to adventure, building story threads into the world…
Writing a story: But why do I have to do that?
Join Drake and Marie as the discuss the orphan trope, how to write dialogue and when to summarize. They don't just list the rules, but plunge into the reasons why those rules exist in t…
Plotting your Second Book - Magicfall 2
Join Drake and Marie as the discuss how to plot a sequel to your first book. This is done by means of plotting Skies of Destiny's book 2, the sequel of Magicfall!
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Live Edit: Attach the reader to your character and theme delivery
Join Drake and Marie as they edit a piece of flash fiction sent in by a regular viewer. They'll discuss the theme of the piece, and the importance of attaching the reader to the charact…
Starting a Story - Plots and Characters
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss where plot ideas start, how to refine them, deciding on characters and other elements of storytelling.
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Advanced Writer's Techniques: Filtering & Disguising Info-dumps
Join Drake and Marie in discussion of providing information to the reader in a way that feels organic and keeps the threads of immersion going! They discuss the importance of how to tak…