The Fiction Writer's Podcast with Lana McAra
Tips, Tricks, & Ideas for Fiction that is #Unputdownable. It's easier than you think!
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 125
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Reviews: A Secret Method
Lana McAra shows you the step-by-step process for gathering powerful, effective reviews that show readers your story is #Unputdownable.
00:06:44 |
Tue 09 Jan 2024
Scenes: String of Pearls
Lana McAra reveals how an effective storyline is like a string of pearls, where the string that holds them together makes your story #Unputdownable.
00:06:43 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
Psychic Wounds: The Success of Your Novel Depends on Them
Lana McAra shows you how exposing your hero's imperfections - their psychic wounds and hurts - makes your fiction writing #Unputdownable.
00:07:33 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
Characters: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Lana McAra distinguishes between protagonists, antagonists, heroes, anti-heroes, and villains, and how the distinctions make your fiction #Unputdownable.
00:05:28 |
Thu 28 Dec 2023
Book Review: Make Your Words Work, by Gary Provost
Lana McAra reviews this cornerstone book by the author whose method for changing the way you see writing makes your fiction novel #Unputdownable.
00:05:53 |
Tue 26 Dec 2023
Bosch: Characterization, or Why Your Readers Love Your Character’s Flaws
Lana McAra reveals lessons from the TV character Bosch and how your character's personal flaws and quirks make your fiction writing #Unputdownable.
00:08:07 |
Thu 21 Dec 2023
Book Review: Dialogue – The Art of Verbal Action for the Page, Stage, and Screen by Robert McKee
Lana McAra reviews this landmark book by the master of story structure and how reading it helps you write fiction that is #Unputdownable.
00:04:32 |
Tue 19 Dec 2023
The Answer for the Idea You’ve Been Looking For Could Very Well Be in Your Family History
Lana McAra reveals how the storyline of your next novel could be within your bloodline, a tale that your readers will find #Unputdownable.
00:04:45 |
Thu 14 Dec 2023
Subplots and Side Characters: You Gotta Have Them
Lana McAra shows you how to evolve subplots and side characters in your current novel into main characters in your next novel and make your entire series #Unputdownable.
00:07:29 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
Relationship Energy: Matching or Not Matching?
Lana McAra explains how relationship energy is the core of any strong fiction novel that makes your readers find it to be #Unputdownable.
00:10:03 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Character Worldview: Another Layer
Lana McAra takes you through a sequence of portals through which your readers see through character's worldview in a story that is #Unputdownable.
00:08:46 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Pet Peeve: Disembodied Body Parts
Lana McAra tells us about one of her pet peeves, a mistake to avoid to ensure your readers find your fiction novel #Unputdownable.
00:06:58 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
A Fresh Perspective From a Young Author
Lana McAra shares about the time she discovered a new author by accident when she bought a fiction novel that turned out to be #unputdownable.
00:06:02 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Endings and Beginnings
Lana McAra reveals a little-discussed aspect of fiction writing that creates a storyline that makes your fiction novel #Unputdownable.
00:07:45 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
He Said/She Said: Creating Dialogue That Works
Lana McAra shows you how to weave your storyline and dialogue together in a tapestry that makes your fiction novel #Unputdownable.
00:06:20 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Electrical Substations: Great Information For a Story
Lana McAra shows you how incorporating something as seemingly mundane as electical substations can make your fiction novel @Unputdownable.
00:06:54 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
A Different Perspective on Point of View
Lana McAra shows you how to enter the story through your character and see the world through their eyes, making your fiction novel #Unputdownable.
00:11:12 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
The Advantages of Delayed Publication
Lana McAra explains how the benefits of delayed publication make your fiction novel something future generations will find #Unputdownable.
00:09:27 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Why Complete Failure is Essential for Success
Lana McAra shows you how to develop and frame your character's failure to make your fiction writing #Unputdownable.
00:06:48 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
Journaling: The Writer’s Life Blood
Lana McAra reveals how to incorporate journaling into your everyday life so you capture every possible idea to make your fiction writing #Unputdownable.
00:07:39 |
Thu 07 Dec 2023
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