Grab a girl here. I'm Anion Fogarty and you can think of me as your friendly guide to

the English language. We talk about writing, history, roles, and cool stuff. And today we

have cool stuff and a little bit of roles because I'm here with Joshua S.O. who is a fiction

editor I have known for probably, I don't know, a decade and we're going to talk about

mood and atmosphere and some of the rules as they are for writing fiction. Joshua, thank

you so much for being here with me today. Yeah, thank you for having me. It's great to

be back. Yeah, I think it's been a couple of years since we talked when you had your

last set of books out. Yeah. And now you have a new set of books. Why don't you tell everyone

about these two new books that we're going to talk about? Yeah, so the two new books

or if you were part of the kickstart of the single new special edition book is a flip

book where you have one side, you have world building and on the other side you have mood

and atmosphere. And then when I release them wide, there'll be two separate books. So

world building, as the title suggests, it's about creating worlds.

Moved in atmosphere is a little bit more of a difficult and more advanced topic where

we're talking about how to imbue your book with different kinds of emotions. I call it

emotionality. You're combined mood, which is how you make your readers feel. And through

your characters primarily, but there's a lot of different ways that you can evoke mood

and that's what the book goes into. And atmosphere, which is a subset of mood, but atmosphere

is created primarily through your setting, which you can see why it pairs well with world

building. Yeah, and let's actually back up a little bit because I know you, but the listeners

may not. So I mean, why should, I need to explain why they should listen to you when it comes

to writing fiction, you're, you know, an accomplished editor and talk about, you know, how long

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