Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray talks about the distinction between villains and antagonists, how to humanize them in the story, and ways to create memorable, necessary opponents for your protagonist. For more info about the show, check out homesteadonthecorner.com Help support the show at http://www.patreon.com/homesteadcorner … More Lesson 19: Act 2 – The Big Bad
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Tape 2-6-193-1-2: As she investigates a potentially haunted waxworks museum, Anna Sheridan recounts the encounter of her friend Giles Fallow with a mysterious creature during the Yom Kippur War. Starring Airen Neeley Chaconas as Anna Sheridan, Gus Krieger as Giles Fallow, Jesse Steele as Bill Tyler, and Trevor … More Episode 04: “A Momentary Crimson”
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray discussed how to use the tools of effective world building to create the extraordinary world of the second act. Learn how to utilize your story’s premise to inform your design, raise the stakes, and create a memorable world your reader … More Lesson 18: Act 2 – Whole New World
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Tape 1-10-2-1-8: Suffering from an acute case of writers block, Anna Sheridan retreats to a small cabin on the Oregon coast to work on her latest novel – but despite her best efforts to avoid them, supernatural forces reappear at nightfall. Starring Airen Neeley Chaconas as Anna Sheridan, … More Episode 03: “Thither to Burn”
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In the first episode of our Act 2 series, Wray talks about how to use allies and enemies in the extraordinary world to move your protagonist towards the change they need to undergo. Learn how to balance friends and foes in the world of … More Lesson 17: Act 2 – Friends and Foes
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Tape 1-4-10-2-23: As the investigation of Anna Sheridan’s disappearance continues, Sam Bailey listens to her encounter with a supernatural presence in “The Mirror House…” the supposedly haunted home of a silversmith obsessed with the infinite. Starring Airen Neeley Chaconas as Anna Sheridan and Trevor Van Winkle as Sam … More Episode 02: “The Impending Shades”
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In the final episode in our act 1 series, Wray discusses the break into act two: how to send your characters into the unknown and prepare the reader for their journey of change. See how the classical act structure is based in the psychological … More Lesson 16: Act 1 – Liftoff
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Tape 1-6-87-8-4: Six months after her disappearance, disgraced detective Sam Bailey is assigned the case of Anna Sheridan, famed horror writer and paranormal investigator. As he listens to the first of many tapes left by the author, he relives her encounter with an otherworldly entity in the ruins … More Episode 01: “The Worlds, Perhaps, of Spirits”
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray discusses techniques and ideas for developing characters within the first act of your story. Learn how to create empathy for your protagonist, demonstrate the problems with their ordinary world, and introduce readers to fundamental flaws through character’s reactions to the … More Lesson 15: Act 1 – Countdown
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Wray talks Inciting Incidents: what they are, how they work, and ways to use them to generate strong narrative momentum. Learn how to put story in motion and pull in your audience with strong disruptions of the protagonist’s world that force … More Lesson 14: Act 1 – Ignition
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