Episodes

  • Fiction Writers Mistake #4: Creating Predictable Characters

    Fiction Writers Mistake #4: Creating Predictable Characters
    Jun 30 2025
    Lana McAra explains how tropes and cliches can make your fiction writing predictable, and how to avoid this so your story becomes #Unputdownable.
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    6 mins
  • Historical Fiction: Truth Meets Story with AJ Sam

    Historical Fiction: Truth Meets Story with AJ Sam
    Jun 30 2025
    AJ Sam joins Lana McAra and shares his experience as a historical fiction writer, including how knowing where the history ends and the fiction begins makes it #Unputdownable.
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    46 mins
  • Young Fantasy Writer With Big Dreams with Malienna R.

    Young Fantasy Writer With Big Dreams with Malienna R.
    Jun 24 2025
    Malienna joins Lana McAra and shares her unique experience as a young fiction writer who has creaed an #Unputdownable series because she did a school assignment but the story did not end there.
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    19 mins
  • Taking Your Book To The Big Screen with Angela Page

    Taking Your Book To The Big Screen with Angela Page
    Jun 17 2025
    Angela Page joins Lana McAra and shares her unique experience as a fiction writer who has forayed into #Unputdownable screenwriting and has had films based on her short stories and novels featured on the "Shorts TV" channel, FunnyorDie, and Indiepix.
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    27 mins
  • Finding the Funny: Humor in Your Writing with Sharon E. Buck

    Finding the Funny: Humor in Your Writing with Sharon E. Buck
    Jun 10 2025
    Sharon E. Buck joins Lana McAra and reveals how properly and powerfully incorporating humor and laughter into your fiction writing makes it #Unputdownable.
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    25 mins
  • Fiction Writers Mistake #3: Telling, Not Showing

    Fiction Writers Mistake #3: Telling, Not Showing
    Jun 3 2025
    Lana McAra explains the distinction and balance between telling vs. showing and how the effects on the impact of words and the pace of the story make it more or less #Unputdownable.
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    7 mins
  • Writing Resilience in Times of Struggle with Sandy Lender

    Writing Resilience in Times of Struggle with Sandy Lender
    May 27 2025
    Sandy Lender joins Lana McAra with living proof that you can work a demanding day job, overcome setbacks, and still create #Unputdownable fiction writing your readers will tear through.
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    35 mins
  • Conflict: The Engine Driving Your Novel with Margie Zable Fisher

    Conflict: The Engine Driving Your Novel with Margie Zable Fisher
    May 20 2025
    Margie Zable Fisher joins Lana McAra to reveal how to create a strong central conflict for your novel that makes it #Unputdownable for your readers.
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    33 mins