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
- 193
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
A look behind the curtain
Drake and Marie talk about Marie and Drake Join us as we discuss how we spend our days, what we do for inspiration and how we get better at the craft of writing.
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Writer's Journey - The darkest hour: Self editing your work
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss editing your work and getting into shape without needing an external editor. We talk about word, macros, techniques and tools!
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How to write magic in fantasy books
Following on from building magic, Drake and Marie discuss how to write magic in an engaging and showy way. Join the conversation as we discuss showing, rather than telling and ways to i…
Building a Fantasy Magic System
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss building a fantasy magic system that works with your world and is impactful to your readers.
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Writing Character Relationships
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss both romantic and platonic relationships, what they offer you as the storyteller and how to write them in a manner that impacts the reader.
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How to write religion in fantasy
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss religion in fantasy, how to write it, what to show and where most authors go wrong. Also, another trope talk! This time the discussion centers on th…
Show Your World
So you've built this amazing world that just sings with glorious fantasy. But how do you show it to your readers without telling them all about it? How do you avoid sounding like an RPG…
Writing Combat
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss the intricacies of writing a good fight scene, all the way from using your sense to the importance of verbs!
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Writing Politics
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss writing the more fun kind of politics, the kind we find in epic fantasy books.
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Practical Editing – Punctuation and Prose
Opening Lines
Drake and Marie discuss their opening lines for series, books and characters, why they chose the words they did and what they were trying to achieve. Also, another trope talk, this time…
Sharing the Story
Join Drake and Marie in discussing how to make sure your characters get the story time they deserve. And also another trope talk! This time we discuss The Chosen One.
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Building Your Lore
Join Drake and Marie (occasionally argue) about world building cultures, societies and religions.
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The fall and rise of a reedeemed character
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss character corruption and redemption as story arcs.
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The shrouded path to publishing
So you've finished your novel and now you want to get it out there. Join Drake and Marie in a frank discussion of the complicated, difficult and mysterious path to getting published, bo…
Alien Races and Focused Traits - Why do it?
Join Drake and Marie to discuss the advantage of exaggerated traits in non human races. And also plunge deeply into the five-man-band trope and what advantages it offers you.
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Writing great character growth arcs
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss character growth arcs, what makes them great and what makes them fail.
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Creating Great Characters
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss how to create great characters for stories, including flaws, foibles, and phobias!
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Spinning a Yarn: Story Structure
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss the three act play, the problem of flawless characters, the importance of the story having a theme rather than the theme having a story and A, B sto…
Six techniques to polish your prose
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