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
Psychology of a character – Mental illness in speculative fiction
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss mental illness, villains, heroes and the impact of the story on the mental well being of your character.
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Split Timelines are Flashbacks
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss Point of View characters not being on the same timeline (looking at you Witcher Season 1), doing the same scene but from a different Point of View a…
Writer's Journey - Promises
As promised, we are back! And speaking of promises, Marie and Drake discuss the importance of keeping to your word to your audience. From promises made on your book cover to plot device…
Good Punctuation is Invisible
Join Drake and Marie in discussion on punctuation, why it’s important and how to use it to communicate with your reader. This will be our last episode for a while as Draka is recovering…
Writer's Journey - Trials and Tribulations - The Plot Diamond
Join Drake and Marie as they discuss the plot diamond. What it is, what to do if it’s too thin and how to stop it being an ever expanding giant.
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Showing Emotion
Drake and Marie discuss how to write with emotion so that the reader doesn’t get told the character is feeling such and such an emotion, they feel the emotion right down to their bones
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Patterns in Prose
Drake and Marie discuss narrative, world building, character and inner monologue prose.
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Writing Action
Drake and Marie discuss how to write engaging, high stakes action scenes and what you can accomplish through writing of violence and combat.
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Writer's Journey - Trials and Tribulations - Self-Doubt
Drake and Marie discuss dealing with self-doubt and fear of getting critiqued. They talk about the importance of getting critiqued and of critiquing others.
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Writing with non-malicious villains
Drake and Marie discuss how to use non-malicious villains or environmental conditions to provide conflict for your characters to overcome and grow them to overcome the theme. They talk …
Agony Aunt - Relationships in Fantasy Writing
Drake and Marie talk about fantasy relationships, why they're important even if romance is not your focus, how it shapes your characters and what things to pay attention to.
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Picking a Point of View
Drake & Marie discuss how to decide who should be a narrating character and when to introduce narrating characters.
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Rethink Your Flashbacks
Drake and Marie speak about flashbacks and dreams and why they're not a good idea, especially early in your tale.
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Practical Editing – Motivations & Openings
Marie and Drake crit a piece of text sent to them by a fan of a show. They cover establishing character motivations, how to create an opening sentence and what certain character decisio…
The Writer's Journey: The Everyman Writer
Drake and Marie discuss the early mistakes almost all writers make, the lack of confidence that makes more writers quit and first perilous steps on your journey to becoming a writer.
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How to End Things
Drake and Marie talk about how to write a good ending that leaves your reader fulfilled. They discuss the potential pitfalls involved in endings and the importance concluding stories, r…
Narrators & POV & framing devices
First person, third person, the mythic second person. Omniscient vs limited. Using a framing device. Let's talk about how to pick a narrator and how to use it!
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A Practical Guide to Editing
Marie, Drake and guest author Conner Crenshaw line edit 3 paragraphs of action writing in detail, explaining the reasoning and how to behind every step.
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Set it up. Pay it off.
Drake and Marie explore how to set up or sign post events and pay off that sign post in such a way that your readers are left feeling fulfilled.
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Complications vs Complexity
Marie and Drake explore how to apply the computer science single responsibility principle to prose. How to structure your sentences, paragraphs, scenes and story cohesively so that your…