Capers and Heists as a plot form, with lots of movies cited as examples.
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.
A Q&A with James Dashner covering paragraph edits, plotting, writing prequels to existing series, and more.
Brandon and Mary school Howard on “Man vs. Nature.” They might school the rest of us, too.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field seven questions in fifteen minutes and forty-two seconds: a new land-speed record!
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.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk endings, and how to troubleshoot common problems writers have with them.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about plotting a good mystery, especially as part of a non-mystery-genre book.
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary talk about making characters do dumb things for smart reasons.