Greg van Eekhout joined us at Phoenix Comic Con for a live-audience Q&A session about Elemental Relationship writing. Here are the questions:
- What is your favorite way to establish relationships?
- How do you recover when a relationship starts to feel forced?
- How do you show a “best friend” relationship?
- How do you decide the pacing of the romance?
- Do you try to make the nature of character relationships clear, or do you leave it to subtext?
- How do you go about writing transsexual relationships?
- What are your favorite relationships to write?
- How do I write the beginning of a relationship between characters the reader has not yet really met?
- How do you transform love into hate, and vice-versa?
- When writing a love triangle, how do you avoid telegraphing the final resolution?
- Do you have recommendations for books that focus on familial friend relationships rather than romance?
Credits: this episode was recorded live at Phoenix Comic-Con by Jeff Cools, and mastered by Alex Jackson
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Identify something about your location that would provide, in an alternate universe, a source of magic unavailable in other locations.
California Bones, by Greg VanEekhout
As I live in Bavaria, near Munich, which is featuring Oktoberfest right now, I guess your writing prompt is trying to tell me to think about magical beer?
A magical beer story could be awesome! And take a look at DRAWING OF THE DARK by Tim Powers for a good example. :)
The functional friendly foursome plus Greg van Eekhout went pearl-diving for wisdom with questions from Phoenix ComicCon about writing relationships! Romance, best friends, prickly antagonists, and so much more! Read all about it in the archives or over here
http://wetranscripts.livejournal.com/120724.html
in a transcript made for two?