In this episode, Jeff interviews award-winning author Leslye Penelope. They discuss her author career, her writing podcasts, and how she builds powerful fantasy worlds.

To find Leslye's work, go to https://lpenelope.com/

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with author Joan Lightning to look at Joan's work-in-progress. They talk about keeping all the characters included in the dialogue, using character positioning and body language to build romantic tension, using inner thoughts, avoiding summaries, and building fantasy worlds.

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In this episode, Dialogue Doctor Coach Laura Humm and Jeff answer questions from the Dialoggers about editing character voices, writing accents, building languages from scratch, and the difference between a scene and a chapter.

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In this episode, Dialogue Doctor Coach JP Rindfleisch IX sits down with author Lisa Young to talk about Lisa's cast of characters. They discuss Lisa's Story Hypothesis to understand her character's growth and the themes of her story. JP and Lisa discuss how the character's arc can accentuate the themes and growth arcs. They also discuss how to use the cast around the character will impact the character's growth, and they talk about growing a relationship between characters across a longer series by beginning with the end in mind. Finally, they talk about the different types of scenes Lisa has written and how they work together.

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In this episode, Dialogue Doctor Coach JP Rindfleisch IX interviews writer and writing teacher, Daniel David Wallace. JP and Daniel talk about how Daniel's background in academics has shaped how he teaches writing, Daniel's Character First approach, the necessity of getting the story started right away, looking past the surface level of a plot to the deeper needs of the character, the online events Daniel puts on, and much more.

To find more of Daniel's work, check out https://danieldavidwallace.com/

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with Editor and High Fantasy/Steam Punk writer Catherine Herandez. They discuss a short story Catherine is working on. They discuss introducing characters, balancing tension in scenes, and organizing your story around emotional tension. They also get into world-building and explaining the setting of the scene.

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In this episode, Jeff sits down with author Lisa Bonneau to talk about her work in progress. They talk about seamlessly integrating flashbacks into a scene and keeping one-on-one scenes building energy.

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In this episode, Dialogue Doctor Laura Humm sits down with author MZ to look at MZ's work in progress. They discuss writing children's voices and keeping them different from adult voices, and they talk about pacing a scene.

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