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AmericanWriters.com Podcast is designed to help beginner, novice and expert writers to create better fiction. The focus is on characterization, narrative, plot development, dialogue, conflict, etc. Episodes are not centered around mindless, useless pep talks and recycled writing tips, which seems to be the custom of most writing podcasts. Rather, the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com offers in-depth analysis of what works and what doesn't -- with explanations and original writing samples. Rules of writing are discussed, but analysis is focused mainly on aesthetics. Primary Format : Arts Also Listed as: Arts City : NYC State/Province : NY Country : USA Country : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: talk | anal | View this Podcast on a Google Map. Add to iTunes Text Only listing of AmericanWriters.com Podcast Podcasts Trumix.com listings available of AmericanWriters.com Podcast Podcasts Click Here to Update the directory of this podcasts programs.

Trumix.com listings available of AmericanWriters.com Podcast Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. Quick Writing Tip 007 -- Be Consistent Subscribe to the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 009 -- Characters of Tragedy and Redemption This episode looks at two different kinds of protagonists: the fallen and the redeemed. Each can evoke strong emotions in the reader and speak to the human condition. Properly handled, tragedies and redemption stories become very powerful character-driven pieces. If you listen to the podcast but have not yet subscribed for free, please consider doing so via iTunes or another aggregator. Visit AmericanWriters.com for details. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 008 -- Writing Historical Fiction: Part 2 We continue our discussion of how to write historical fiction. Toward that end, we examine what some established authors have done -- and we break the topic into three sections. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 015 -- Writing Deus Ex Machina (Not!) Subscribe to the Creative Writing Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Announcement -- March 6, 2007 Just a quick announcement about a couple of things. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 014 -- Motives Beneath Motives Subscribe to the Creative Writing Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 013 -- Writing a Novel Prologue Subscribe to the Creative Writing Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 007 -- Writing Historical Fiction Whether you're writing Historical Fiction or utilizing history within your fiction, there are a handful of things you need to consider. This episode focuses on much of the theory, and we take a look at what writers of Historical Fiction have said about the genre. In the next episode, Writing 008, we will analyze what some of the more successful historical novels have done and experiment with some original passages. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 010 -- How People Read Subscribe to the Creative Writing Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 012 -- Story, Narrative and What to Include Subscribe to the Creative Writing Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 011 -- Writing, Ideology and Activism Subscribe to the Creative Writing Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 009 -- The Subtle Dimensions of External Conflict Subscribe to the Creative Writing Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 006 -- Listener Letters (emphasis on approaching the novel) It's time to respond to some of your questions and comments. All the same, I can't help myself: I address one or two of them so heavily that I hijack my own show and give it a bona-fide theme. Among other things, I talk about how I approach writing my novel -- and while it's not my intention to say, "Hey, do it MY way," the discussion might somehow be helpful. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 008 -- How Writing is like Painting Subscribe to the Creative Writing Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 006 -- Sacrifice for the Greatest Good Subscribe to the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 005 -- Thoughts about Setting This time out, I talk about how setting can establish tone, bolster theme and give psychological dimension to your story. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website AmericanWriters.com Podcast Promo Subscribe to the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 005 -- The Story or You? Subscribe to the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 004 -- The Shadow in the Hero Ahh, yes. This is one of my favorite discussions when talking about writing. It goes well beyond the mundane, deeply into character and conflict analysis and into the psychological and archetypal. Without this useful dramatic device, your story can easily fall limp. You really need to check this one out as we will come back to the issue of the Shadow from time to time. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 004 -- What's this Adverb Phobia all About? Subscribe to the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 003 -- Likeable Characters Subscribe to the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 002 -- Write what you know?? Nonsense! Subscribe to the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Quick Writing Tip 001 -- The Importance of Internal Conflict Subscribe to the Podcast at AmericanWriters.com. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 003 -- How to Write Dialogue Tom Occhipinti talks about how to write dialogue in fiction. He covers the basic rules and discusses whether or not they should be broken. Finally, he touches upon the issue of writing MEANINGFUL dialogue and along the way recounts a funny story from his college days. Or maybe Tom just has a cruel sense of humor. You decide. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 002 -- How to Open your Story: Part Two This is Part Two of a show that discusses the various ways you can open a story. Part One addressed opening a story with Narrative Description. Here in Part Two, Tom Occhipinti addresses opening a story with Action and Dialogue, respectively. It's an in-depth examination of the Do's and Don'ts, with a heck of a lot of analysis. Check it out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 002 -- How to Open your Story: Part One If you have ever struggled over how to open your story, this show will help, as it looks at a few possible approaches. Even if you don't have an issue with this, the discussion and sample passage written and analyzed by Tom is fodder for thought. This episode is Part One. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Writing 001 -- Show Introduction and Preview Our first show introduces you to the podcast creator and writer, Tom Occhipinti, and gives you a heads up on the direction that the podcast series will take. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website