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Multiple award-nominated science fiction and fantasy author Jake Kerr provides practical writing advice in short easy-to-understand lessons. If you are interested in theory and rules, this is not the podcast for you. If, however, you want to know how to build up to writing excellence by understanding all of the component parts that lead you there, look no further. Jake tears it down, so you can build it up.
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This week's exercise is to create a complex sentence within a paragraph prompt.
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There are short sentences and long sentences and simple sentences and complex sentences. This week we discuss why and how to use complex sentences.
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Pauses serve specific functions in sentences. This exercise will help you identify them.
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Commas are the bane of many new writers. We know the rules, but the rules often mess up how a sentence sounds. Can we break this rule? What do pauses in sentence do, anyway? This week we discuss how to shape the rhythm of a sentence using pauses.
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This week's writing exercises cover simile, metaphor, and rhythm in terms of paragraph construction.
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This episode goes over the basic elements of poetic prose and how they can be used to create a more powerful experience for your readers.
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An exercise to go over the effective and appropriate use of run on sentences and sentence fragments as part of paragraph construction.
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This episode goes over the nature of breaking grammatical rules at the sentence level--the when and why. Specific examples of run-on sentences and sentence fragments are examined.
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What role does the sentence play as you are writing your story? What are the important goals it achieves? This week we look at the role of the sentence as we begin a series of episodes on sentence construction.
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In this episode Jake presents four short exercises to provide a better understanding the goal of writing a paragraph.
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In this episode, we discuss what role the paragraph plays in story telling, a foundational piece that acts as the glue that binds a story together.
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In this episode Jake provides a two step exercise to build and then revise paragraphs while maintaining it's rhythm and cadence.
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There is one rule for rhythm in paragraph construction: Keep the reader engaged. There is one guideline: Avoid repetition. This week Jake goes over both the guideline and its exceptions in constructing engaging paragraphs.
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Three exercises to help you practice putting together paragraphs that deliver the key thought or effect you want to achieve.
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In this first of several lessons going over paragraph construction, Jake talks about the fundamental nature of paragraphs: Delivering a single thought, action, emotion, or mood.
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Two short exercises to help you grasp the concepts of writing wit into your dialogue along with taking strong dialogue and adding style.
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In this episode Jake discusses how can you imbue your dialogue with wit and also how to create lyrical dialogue that reflects style.
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Now that you better understand using exposition in dialogue, here is a writing exercise to practice.
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The most powerful way to deliver exposition is with dialogue, but it is also difficult. This episode outlines how to handle the power and danger in using dialogue for exposition.
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In this writing exercise, you'll practice delivering critical information via dialogue in a way that sounds realistic.
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