
Death Of 1000 Cuts
Death Of 1000 Cuts is a podcast for fiction writers, full of motivational rants, writing exercises, interviews with authors, and detailed critiques of first pages submitted by you, the listeners. Everything you need to write more and better, and love it. Presented by Tim Clare, author of The Honours, The Ice House and We Can't All Be Astronauts, and stand-up poet.
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Aug 19, 2016 • 2h 4min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 20
In the final episode of this season, author Tim Clare lapses into a fugue state and talks unscripted for over 2 hours about writing fiction. Oops.
Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Aug 12, 2016 • 17min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 19
Writing a novel? Want to make it good? Listen to this podcast about how to do just that, presented by author Tim Clare.
Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Aug 4, 2016 • 19min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 18
Another episode of fiction writing advice podcast, Death Of 1000 Cuts. Learn to make your novel super-awesome with help from author Tim Clare.
If you'd like to support me and the podcast, please buy my novel, THE HONOURS: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Jul 29, 2016 • 20min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 17
Would you like to be a writer? How about a good writer? How about an awesome writer? Tim Clare (that's me) walks you through the process by critiquing a new first page sent in by a listener each episode.
Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Jul 14, 2016 • 16min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 16
Learn to write fiction like someone who sold their soul for super-story powers and a bag o' Doritos. This week I look at the first page of someone's novel and talk about the perils of music in stories.
Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#=oid1908_1

Jul 8, 2016 • 18min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 15
Writing a novel? Want help? Get quick, practical, immediately-applicable advice from award-winning author and perennial neurotic Tim Clare. Each week, we look at the first page of a listener's novel or short story and discuss ways of making it less sucky.
Please buy my novel, The Honours: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Jul 1, 2016 • 17min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 14
Want to a write a novel? Want to make it good? Friend, we have your back. Each week, award-winning author Tim Clare takes a look at the first page of a listener's novel or short story in detail and suggests ways to make it suck less. This episode, we get in-depth about point of view, dialogue tags, and Tim's favourite topic, crunchy specificity.
If you'd like to support me and the podcast, please buy my novel, THE HONOURS: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Jun 23, 2016 • 41min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 13 - Editing With Nikesh Shukla
Another episode of the fiction writing podcast where we smash apart the first page of a listener's novel to see if we can rebuild it bigger, stronger, and deadlier. This episode I'm joined by novelist and screenwriter Nikesh Shukla, author of Coconut Unlimited, The One Who Wrote Destiny and Meatspace.
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Buy THE ONE WHO WROTE DESTINY: https://wordery.com/the-one-who-wrote-destiny-nikesh-shukla-9781786492784#oid=1908_1
Buy my novel, THE HONOURS: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#=oid1908_1

Jun 16, 2016 • 21min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 12
Another episode of the fiction writing podcast where writers send in their first pages for author Tim Clare to lovingly rip apart then glue back together in a pretty collage of a duck or something. It's like a normal writing podcast except not completely ruddy useless.
Please support me and the podcast by buying my novel, THE HONOURS: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1

Jun 9, 2016 • 17min
Death Of 1000 Cuts - Episode 11 - Editing With Ann Morgan
In this episode, author Ann Morgan and I look at another author's first page and discuss ways of making it better. This is a podcast for anyone who writes or wants to write fiction and would like to be less bad at it.
If you'd like to support the podcast, please buy my novel, THE HONOURS: https://wordery.com/the-honours-tim-clare-9781782114765#oid=1908_1
Please buy Ann Morgan's novel, BESIDE MYSELF: https://wordery.com/beside-myself-ann-morgan-9781408870310#oid=1908_1
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