Are we making progress? How do we communicate that to the reader?
Tools, not rules. For writers, by writers.
Marie Brennan joins us again, this time to help us field your questions about middles. Here are the questions we collected from the various social media feeds: How do you maintain interest without having something explode every other chapter? In short fiction, how do you prevent try-fail cycles from bloating the…
Marie Brennan joins us for a discussion of polytheism (and really any belief system) in our fiction.
Lots of people struggle with the middles of their books. One way to look at the middle is that it’s the point where you’re no longer working on that new project that has you excited, but haven’t yet gotten to the cool ending that has you excited. We talk about…
How do you “show, don’t tell” a character’s thoughts? We answer this question, and more!
We talk about how we define and structure scenes in our writing, and we make reference to Scene/Sequel format, the MICE quotient, and pacing.
Media Specialist Kiley Snyder joins us to talk about hooking young readers.
Instead of saying “show, don’t tell,” we say “here’s how to show.”
Spoilers ahead! We dig into Of Noble Family, by Mary Robinette Kowal, focusing on language, culture, and the extensive research Mary did.
We answer questions about consistency, alternate histories, and the Great Spoke Plague of ’77