Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Three days late for the beginning of NaNoWriMo 2016, here’s a bonus episode about maps. Because nothing says “keep writing” like “hey, let’s draw a map now!” Dan and Howard were joined by Maurice Broaddus, Mur Lafferty, and James L. Sutter, who wanted to talk about maps. As Napoleon Bonaparte is…
Marie Brennan joins us for a discussion of polytheism (and really any belief system) in our fiction.
We answer questions about consistency, alternate histories, and the Great Spoke Plague of ’77
Wes Chu, author and adventurer, recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and has some things to say about all the wilderness trekking that our characters do in the books we write, and how we often forget to say anything about sleeping on inclines, altitude sickness, or packing toilet paper. The salient point: we…
In which Max Gladstone introduces us to the concept of the Magical 1%
How do you describe water from the point of view of a fish?
We answer questions on tropes, narrative styles, editing, rule-breaking and more.
E.J. Patten joins us to talk about pre-writing — all that work that gets done before the prose happens.
Mary invites Brandon, Dan, and Howard to brainstorm a story with her.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field seven questions in fifteen minutes and forty-two seconds: a new land-speed record!
