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The Fiction Writer's Podcast with Lana McAra
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Lana McAra reveals the #1 mistake fiction writers make with world-building, and how to avoid it so your work remains #Unputdownable.
Jimmy Deas joins Lana McAra and shares how to use small-town settings to send your message in an #Unputdownable way.
Joseph Muller joins Lana McAra and shares how historical fiction about obscure topics makes for #Unputdownable fiction writing.
Lana McAra goes through the ins and outs of shock value and how to properly channel it so your fiction writing is #Unputdownable.
Victoria LK Williams joins Lana McAra and shares how taking up on a dare, at any age, can lead to #Unputdownable fiction writing.
Sara Tunder joins Lana McAra and shares how showing much of yourself you pour into your work is a faster path to #Unputdownable fiction writing.
R.A. Davis joins Lana McAra and shares priceless insights about what it takes to make your first fiction novel #Unputdownable.
DonnaLee Overly joins Lana McAra and shares about how incorporating social causes into your writing makes for #Unputdownable fiction.
Lana McAra takes a good, hard look at whether we’re working too hard at fiction writing, and if this is (ironically) making our work less #Unputdownable.
Mindy Killgrove joins Lana McAra and shares about the importance of conducting research before beginning to write #Unputdownable historical fiction.
Tracy Tripp and Edward Mickolus join Lana McAra and share their journey of combining their experiences as fiction writers to create a collaborative #Unputdownable story.
Michael L. Clark joins Lana McAra and shares his works of time-travel historical fiction that create an #Unputdownable story interlaced with real characters.
Kat Beaulieu joins Lana McAra and shares his real-world experience delving into self-publishing to bring #Unputdownable writing to the world.
Lana McAra explains how tropes and cliches can make your fiction writing predictable, and how to avoid this so your story becomes #Unputdownable.
AJ Sam joins Lana McAra and shares his experience as a historical fiction writer, including how knowing where the history ends and the fiction begins makes it #Unputdownable.
Malienna joins Lana McAra and shares her unique experience as a young fiction writer who has creaed an #Unputdownable series because she did a school assignment but the story did not end there.
Angela Page joins Lana McAra and shares her unique experience as a fiction writer who has forayed into #Unputdownable screenwriting and has had films based on her short stories and novels featured on the "Shorts TV" channel, FunnyorDie, and Indiepix.
Sharon E. Buck joins Lana McAra and reveals how properly and powerfully incorporating humor and laughter into your fiction writing makes it #Unputdownable.
Lana McAra explains the distinction and balance between telling vs. showing and how the effects on the impact of words and the pace of the story make it more or less #Unputdownable.
Sandy Lender joins Lana McAra with living proof that you can work a demanding day job, overcome setbacks, and still create #Unputdownable fiction writing your readers will tear through.



