Episode 223 - Readers can fall in love with our settings.

Episode 223 - Readers can fall in love with our settings.

June 26, 2026 · 26 min

About this episode

James Thayer discusses how to create irresistible settings in novels and shares insights on a plotting technique by Elizabeth George.

I talk about ways we can make our settings--the time and place of our story--irresistible to readers. They'll want to live there. Plus: we can use our global search function to almost instantly make our sentences more forceful. And: novelist Elizabeth George's plotting technique she calls the plot kernel. Support the show Buy the master class.

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