Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Your Hosts: Brandon, Piper, Dan, and Howard We fielded some questions on style, diction, and paragraphing: Is it okay to have pretty prose in a straightforward adventure story? How do author voice and character voice differ? How do you prevent paragraphs from rambling? I feel like my writing is derivative…
Robin Hobb joined us at GenCon Indy for a discussion of characterization and differentiation. And by “discussion,” what we really mean is “we ask Robin all the questions.” We learn about Robin’s process for creating characters, wrapping stories around them, and making these characters distinctly different from each other. Credits:…
Our second installment for the Master Class’s month of context covers the way dialog between characters may change meaning depending upon the context you create for them. This context may be the setting or genre, and it may also be the “beats” in which you describe what a person is…
We answer questions on tropes, narrative styles, editing, rule-breaking and more.
The cast talks about making dialogue, blocking, and description work together for exposition and story-telling.
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.
They’re not rules, they’re guidelines. Right? Let’s talk about breaking “rules” of writing.
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.
John Scalzi joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of dialog and how genre fiction writers can learn to do a better job with it.
