Writing Excuses 10.15: Worldbuilding Wilderness with Wes Chu
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 need to remember that our characters are experiencing these wilderness treks, and they have interesting opinions about them.
Homework: Wes has a tough writing exercise for us: take something that you’ve already written, swap the personalities of your protagonist and antagonist, and re-write a scene from the story.
Thing of the week: The Rebirths of Tao, by Wesley Chu, isn’t available yet on Audible, but the first book in the trilogy, The Lives of Tao is.
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