Shawn Shiflett and Jim Fusilli on Writers on Writing

In the first half hour, Shawn Shiflett, author of Hey, Liberal!talks with co-host Nicole Nelson about the challenges of humanizing evil characters, writing realistic dialogue, and how being a natural mimic helps to create authentic-sounding voices.

In the second half, I’m on with Jim Fusilli, editor of Crime Plus Music: Twenty Stories of Music-Themed Noir. We discuss how his background as a music critic influenced him in writing fiction, how he finds short stories more challenging to craft than novels, and why noir works better in short fiction and movies, and not so well in novels.

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(Broadcast date: November 9, 2016)

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