Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast! This week, Gabi and Nadine fly solo in their chat about the transformative power of story. In this episode, you'll hear about:

• interpreting excerpts by emotion
• using sentence cadence and rhythm to evoke emotion
• how reading as a writer might take different forms for you
• reading while drafting vs reading while revising
• playing with structure: timelines, white space, physical placement and formation of words on a page, borrowing craft inspiration from non-novel based forms
• how clever use of humor and device can provide scaffolding for setting up reader expectations and work to introduce subtle foreshadowing
• striking the balance of giving readers enough to be present while trusting them to fill in the blanks
• plenty of examples where we analyze lines and paragraphs of excellent books
• which one of us won't run to catch the bus

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A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find more of her creative work on Spotify.

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