Episode 321: Writing Unlikeable Characters

August 9, 2025 Theme for the day Unlikeable Characters Agenda Segment 1 We did Despicable characters discussion on Episode 27 but that was way, way back in 2019 and so it’s time we took another look at them. We went to the AI for a few discussable topics on this: Along with the “no character…

Episode 317: Effective Use of Dialogue

On July 12, 2025, Kasie and Rex finally did an episode dedicated to dialogue. Here are the show notes: Theme for the day Dialogue Agenda Segment 1 We have kind of edged around dialogue, talking about its role in implacture (episode 314) and exposition but we haven’t focused on Dialogue since before Rex joined the…

Episode 217: More Flaws than you can shake a stick at

On February 4th, Kasie and Rex continued their conversation on character flaws. Here are the show notes: Topic: Character Flaws continued Agenda: Update on SlaughterShark and Being Blue Character Flaws revisited How to write a good flaws character Link to the podcast. We’re building off this link from Writers Write on Character Flaws. So what…

Episode 169: The Moral Descent

On December 18, 2021, Kasie and Rex took on the descending character arc. Lots of criminals in this episode. Here are the show notes: Theme for the day Character Arcs — the moral descent Agenda Character Arc review The moral descent as a compelling arc How to plot and write a moral descent character arc…