Professional-hockey-player-turned-author Luke Murphy addresses expecting the unexpected, transitioning from one passion to another, and finding ways to balance it all. Writers who feel pulled in a number of directions, this one’s for you.

Author and engineer William C. Tracy discusses strategies for effectively incorporating research and technical know-how into works of fiction.

After briefly revisiting prologues and epilogues, co-hosts Sione Aeschliman and r.r. campbell explore the ins and outs of writing satisfying endings, which, it turns out, are just as much about beginnings as they are about anything else.

Sitting on a collection of poetry or short fiction and unsure what to do with it? This episode’s for you!

Hot off the release of the final installment in her GOD AWFUL series, Silvia Acevedo explores the advantages and disadvantages of writing one’s own series.

With help from #WritescastChat participants, host r. r. campbell takes on fatal flaws–what they are, how they vary from regular old flaws, and whether fatal flaws can ever be assets.

Writing advice is everywhere these days, but our mileage with any particular brand of it may vary. So how do we know who and what to listen to? This episode’s guest, Madeleine D’Este, explains.

Author Michael G. Williams joins the r. r. campbell writescast for a super spooky episode about how he got his start writing horror and how we as writers can give our own readers chills.

In this listener-feedback-fueled episode, co-hosts r.r. and Sione explore prologues and epilogues: what they are, how they’re different from first and last chapters, and how we can write them effectively.

Noelle Nichols discusses ways to effectively convey backstory without invoking the dreaded infodump.