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Story Works Round Table with Alida Winternheimer | Conversations About Craft

May 30, 2019

This week, Alida, Robert, & Kathryn spar at the Round Table. What makes a fight scene memorable to readers? How do you manage both choreography & time in fight scenes? How much detail is just enough? What about wounding your characters? Making the epic specific? And more!

Show notes and links at www.StoryWorksPodcast.com.


May 23, 2019

This week, Alida, Robert, and Kathryn discuss what it takes to get a character from point A to point B in your story without boring your reader. Sometimes a traveling chapter is about covering actual distance through your setting, but more often it's about mental traveling, getting your character and your reader...


May 16, 2019

This week, Alida and Nico continue their in depth conversation about fantasy. We discuss intrusion and liminal fantasy, world building, inspiration, theme, and more.

Show notes and links at www.StoryWorksPodcast.com.


May 9, 2019

This week we do something never done before at the Round Table. My very special friend, Nicodemus Wolfgang Taranovsky, joins me in my living room for an actual sit-down chat all about...writing fantasy!

Show notes & more at www.StoryWorksPodcast.com.


May 2, 2019

This week, Alida, Robert, & Kathryn have Mike Stop Continues back at the Round Table to discuss the ways we use narrative to guide a reader into and through your story. We cover common issues with sequencing, action, & delivering surprise. We explore how to guide the reader with narrative prowess, and give you tips...