Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
A microcast is our word for an asynchronous Q&A episode: you ask us tons of questions online, either through twitter or facebook or our listenermail account (on the sidebar), and we want to answer as many of them as we can. Not every answer can fill an entire episode, though,…
Howard answers questions about “Force Multiplication,” (the 12th Schlock Mercenary book) as posed by Brandon, Dan, and Mary.
Brandon and Mary school Howard on “Man vs. Nature.” They might school the rest of us, too.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field questions from Twitter, including what to do if you don’t like your characters, keeping your plot on track, and how grounded in real geography your urban fantasy should be. There is also a question about bacon.
How do you take a good character and make them evil? And why would you want to do this? Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard answer that second question first, and then walk you through the process of doing this.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about using character foils in building a story.
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary talk about making characters do dumb things for smart reasons.
Lou Anders joins Dan, Howard, and Mary for a discussion of endings.
Lou Anders joins Mary, Dan, and Howard at Dragon*Con for a discussion of the Hollywood Formula.
Keffy Kehrli joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard at WorldCon 69 for a discussion of gender roles, gender identity, and transsexualism with the objective of being able to write these things believably and accurately.
