Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard each crank out the beginnings of a story from the same set of story seeds.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Lauren Beukes joins the ‘cast for a discussion of writing cultures that you’re not personally a part of.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard take questions from the Twitterverse ranging from outlining, character creation, and plot-hole repair to skill development and writing groups.
Let’s talk about bibles. Specifically, story bibles. What are they, why do we use them, why might we NOT use them, and what tools are working for us? Howard again plugs wikidpad, which he converted Brandon to, and which Dan Wells just couldn’t bring himself to love. Dan uses several…
We were fortunate enough to record two episodes with Tracy Hickman and Dave Wolverton at Life, The Universe, and Everything XXIX. In this second installment these masters of the craft school us on the subject of rewrites.
Brandon, Dan, and Howard give examples of making, keeping, and breaking promises to your readers.
Brandon, Dan, and Howard each offer sage advice to their earlier selves.
Scott Westerfeld joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of the visual components of novels.
Brandon, Dan, and Howard field questions about doing bad things to characters, soliciting feedback, creature design, and outlining.
John Brown joins us this week for a discussion of plot threads specific to characters. These can be the main plot thread, interesting sub-plots, or just things that shape characters. Sometimes they’re things we do deliberately, and sometimes we discovery-write our way into these arcs. We talk about how we…