Writing and Editing
Writing and Editing is a podcast for authors that takes a whole-person approach to everything related to writing and editing. Listen in each Thursday for a new twenty-five-minute episode with an author or industry expert. All episodes are freely available in audio wherever you get podcasts. Hosted by Jennia D'Lima
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 346
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
6. An Editor’s Eye for Minute Details and for the Whole Structure
Wayne discusses the two opposite poles of editing: attention to minutiae and attention to overall structure.
5. Things in Fiction Reviews That Are Irrelevant
Wayne discusses reviews of fiction in the broad sense, focusing on things that reviewers ask that are irrelevant—and suggesting things they could ask about that would be more revelatory…
4. Good Writing Means Leaving Things Out
Wayne discusses the importance of a type of spareness in writing fiction, and cites a short story by Raymond Carver, novels by Vladimir Nabokov, a song by Leonard Cohen, and two movies …
3. Changes in the Publishing Business
Wayne discusses some changes that have happened in traditional publishing in the last decade or more, and speculates on how these changes may expand and other changes may come.
2. Four Examples of Good and Bad Writing
Wayne chooses examples from four works to illustrate good and bad writing: What Strange Paradise, the Giller Prize–winning novel by Omar El Akkad, published in 2021 ◘ Hominids, by Rober…
1. How an Editor Makes Your Writing Better
Wayne discusses the four types of editing and the "deliverables" that an editor owes to their client.