13.43: Characters Who Are Smarter Than You Are
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Amal
Many of us write characters who know more than we know, and/or who think faster than we do. Writing those characters is tricky. In this episode we talk about our own tricks, and the tricks we’ve seen others use.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Bert Grimm, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
Homework: Time is your friend. Write a solution to one of your characters’ problems off the top of your head. Spend a week thinking about it and researching it. During that week write down all the new solutions that come to you. Compile the entire set of solutions and review them to see just how good a friend time can be.
Thing of the week: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions, by Randall Munroe.
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