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Podcast title FictionRight
Website URL http://fictionright.com
Description Alan and Rebecca Lickiss provide short focused podcasts for fiction writers. Each podcast is on a specific subject, and they provide a writing exercise for their listeners to try.
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Episodes

1. FictionRight.com Special - Jim Butcher and Shannon Butcher Interview
http://fictionright.com/2007/0... download (audio/mpeg, 8.43Mb)

Description:


This is a special edition of the FictionRight.com podcast.  We interview Jim Butcher, author of the Dresden Files series, and Shannon Butcher.  Please provide any comments to feedback@fictionrigh t.com

Jim Butcher's website is http://www.jim-butcher.co m/

Shannon Butcher's website is http://www.shannonkbu tcher.com/

And a special Thank You to the Pike's Peak Writers Workshop for allowing us to interview the Butcher's.  http://www.ppwc.net/

2. FictionRight.com Chapter Six - Dialog 7/31/07
http://fictionright.com/2007/0... download (audio/mpeg, 6.00Mb)

Description:
Alan and Rebecca Lickiss discuss dialog and how to make it better.

Writing exercise: Write a scene that takes place around a dinner table where a common problem or a person is the object of discussion.



3. FictionRight.com Special - Connie Willis Interview
http://fictionright.com/2007/0... download (audio/mpeg, 14.89Mb)

Description: Alan and Rebecca Lickiss interview Connie Willis while attending CoSine in Colorado Springs, January 2007. Connie provides information and advice for writers of all levels.

4. FictionRight.com Chapter Five - The Minutia 2/20/07
http://fictionright.com/2007/0... download (audio/mpeg, 6.34Mb)

Description: Alan and Rebecca Lickiss answer questions they've received about manuscript format and submission. Writing exercise: Take the story that was written for the last exercise, format it properly, and submit it to an editor. If it is rejected, immediatly submit it to another editor.

5. FictionRight.com Chapter Four - The Plot Thickens 12/04/06
http://fictionright.com/2006/1... download (audio/mpeg, 5.15Mb)

Description: Alan and Rebecca Lickiss discuss what plot is and how it is used to start a story, make a story interesting, and provide a satisfying ending. Writing exercise: Take the character, setting, and idea created in previous exercises and use them to write a short story.

6. FictionRight.com Chapter Three - Ideas 11/04/06
http://fictionright.com/2006/1... download (audio/mpeg, 8.08Mb)

Description: Alan and Rebecca Lickiss discuss where writers get their ideas, and how to generate ideas for problems, stories, characters, and settings if the idea well is dry. Writing exercise: write down one or more problems that would be suitable for a short story.

7. Fictionright.com Special - Reeves-Stevens and Sawyer Interview
http://fictionright.com/2006/1... download (audio/mpeg, 15.96Mb)

Description:

Alan and Rebecca Lickiss interview Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens and Robert J. Sawyer while attending MileHiCon in Denver, October 2006. The three provide information and advice for writers of all levels.


Robert J. Sawyer's web site is http://www.sfwriter.com/

Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens web site is http://www.reeves-stev ens.com/

8. FictionRight.com Chapter Two - Characters 10/14/06
http://fictionright.com/2006/1... download (audio/mpeg, 8.10Mb)

Description: Alan and Rebecca Lickiss discuss the importance of well defined characters to a story, and how to create them. Writing Exercise: Create a character, define their name, gender, age, physical attributes, any quirks, their past, and their future/hopes and dreams.

9. FictionRight.com Chapter One - Descriptions 09/25/06
http://fictionright.com/2006/0... download (audio/mpeg, 0.03Mb)

Description: Alan and Rebecca discuss the importance of the use of multiple senses in providing descriptions in writing. Writing Exercise: Go to a place and write a paragraph describing the place using only one sense. Do this twice more with two other senses. Then write a fourth paragraph, pulling from the first three, to create a multi-sense description of the location.