Episode 15: Salvaging

Episode 16: Night & Historic Notes

Ambiguous endings, keeping your promises, and appendices. Our last episode.

Episode 15: Salvaging

Finding plot devices in surprising places. This week, we wonder how much research Atwood did around Stockholm Syndrome whilst writing Offred. Recommended podcast: Sideways https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000s7n1 [https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000s7n1]

Episode 14: Night

We explore how Margaret Atwood created complicated motivations to show the cruelty of her dystopia - rather than using boring exposition. Recommended podcast: How Did This Get Made? https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/ [https://www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-made/]

Episode 13: Jezebel’s

We edge into the world of non-fiction today, looking at the importance of getting your readers to trust your narrator - and the times when you want to tell them to not trust you. Recommended podcast: My Dad Wrote A Porno https://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/ [https://www.mydadwroteaporno.com/]

Episode 12: Night

How should you go about making you characters relatable? Let’s take a look at how The Handmaid’s Tale does it. Podcast recommendation: Limetown https://twoupproductions.com/limetown/podcast [https://twoupproductions.com/limetown/podcast]