We answer questions on tropes, narrative styles, editing, rule-breaking and more.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
A Q&A episode with Eric James Stone
Joel Shepherd joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard to talk about hard social science.
E.J. Patten joins us to talk about pre-writing — all that work that gets done before the prose happens.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard loved “The Avengers,” and would like to tell you what they think the film did right.
Do you need arcs and development for side-characters?
We’re back for the New Year, and we start by answering all your questions. Or at least eight of them.
Mary Robinette Kowal schools Brandon, Dan, and Howard with her outlining system.
What are the things that matter to your characters? What things matter to your readers? After we get the obligatory ambiguity out of the way, we settle into talking about the “stakes” and the escalation thereof.
Dan Wells walks us through the seven-point story structure format he uses, and then we demonstrate by brainstorming this on a sample story.