Hi! We are Tina (Story Excavator) and Ina (Magical Mystery Coach) and we’re both writers and writing coaches. The Writers' Toolbox podcast is dedicated to helping you crack the craft of writing fiction. Each episode, we trade off teaching each other, and by extension hopefully you, about a different writing technique that excites us.
Writers' Toolbox
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Hi! We are Tina (Story Excavator) and Ina (Magical Mystery Coach) and we’re both writers and writing coaches. The Writers' Toolbox podcast is dedicated to helping you crack the craft of writing fiction. Each episode, we trade off teaching each other, and by extension hopefully you, about a different writing technique that excites us.
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April 23, 2026
S1.E12: Dramatic Irony for Humor
<p>This is the sixth and final episode in Ina’s series on Dramatic Irony. Dramatic irony is not just the perfect tool for making readers cry, but to make them laugh out loud, too! Especially suitable for children’s and young adult books, but also in lighter stories for adults, we’ll look at how to create the funniest scenes, using The Amulet of Samarkand as our main example. </p><p>We’ll refer a lot to the psychological model called the JohariI window in this episode, you can see a visual representation here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window"><u>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johari_window</u></a>. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Find us here:</strong></p><p>Tina:<a href="http://www.storyexcavator.com"> <u>www.storyexcavator.com</u></a></p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@StoryExcavator"><u>https://www.youtube.com/@StoryExcavator</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>Ina: <a href="http://www.magicalmysterycoach.com"><u>www.magicalmysterycoach.com</u></a> </p><p>Instagram: @inanesauthor</p><p>YouTube: <a href="http://youtube.com/@magicalmysterycoach"><u>youtube.com/@magicalmysterycoach</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Music: "Energy" by Benjamin Tissot</p><p>Licensed via <a href="http://bensound.com/"><u>bensound.com</u></a><br></p>
April 23, 2026
S1.E11: Maintaining Story Momentum and Pacing
<p>This is the sixth episode in Tina's series on Reader Engagement. She covers how to assess and improve your story momentum and structural pacing. To see a visual of the momentum measure table and read more on the topic, visit: <a href="https://www.storyexcavator.com/post/maintaining-story-momentum " target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://www.storyexcavator.com/post/maintaining-story-momentum </a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Find us here:</strong></p><p>Tina:<a href="http://www.storyexcavator.com"> <u>www.storyexcavator.com</u></a></p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@StoryExcavator"><u>https://www.youtube.com/@StoryExcavator</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>Ina: <a href="http://www.magicalmysterycoach.com"><u>www.magicalmysterycoach.com</u></a> </p><p>Instagram: @inanesauthor</p><p>YouTube: <a href="http://youtube.com/@magicalmysterycoach"><u>youtube.com/@magicalmysterycoach</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Music: "Energy" by Benjamin Tissot</p><p>Licensed via <a href="http://bensound.com/"><u>bensound.com</u></a><br></p>
April 23, 2026
S1.E10: Dramatic Irony for Tragedy
<p>This is the fifth episode in Ina’s series on Dramatic Irony. Tragic stories can reach epic heights with a good dose of dramatic irony—this goes all the way back to Shakespeare and the ancient Greeks. Using Game of Thrones and Arcane: League of Legends as examples, we’ll look at the importance of backstory and worldview to charge a tragic scene that hits the reader hard. </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Find us here:</strong></p><p>Tina:<a href="http://www.storyexcavator.com"> <u>www.storyexcavator.com</u></a></p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@StoryExcavator"><u>https://www.youtube.com/@StoryExcavator</u></a> </p><p><br></p><p>Ina: <a href="http://www.magicalmysterycoach.com"><u>www.magicalmysterycoach.com</u></a> </p><p>Instagram: @inanesauthor</p><p>YouTube: <a href="http://youtube.com/@magicalmysterycoach"><u>youtube.com/@magicalmysterycoach</u></a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Music: "Energy" by Benjamin Tissot</p><p>Licensed via <a href="http://bensound.com/"><u>bensound.com</u></a><br></p>
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