Question 1122 How does the Homestead Affect Writing?
Joe asks:How has living on a homestead affected your writing life? If you had to do it over again, what would you do differently? The post Q...
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20 of 300 episodesQuestion 1121: Sacred ideas and Adapting from Screenplays
Brad asks: Do you ever collaborate or bounce ideas with other authors? And any advice on writing a screenplay first, then adapting the story...
Question 1120: What is a play?
Caine asks: What is a play? Not the mechanics of how documents are formatted or anything like that, but what Plays are, what they aren’t, an...
Questions 1119: Filling Up the Corners
Roland asks:I want to write short stories to give my readers an extra taste of my characters and side characters, but my mind goes blank try...
Question 1118: Preventing Author Avatars
Herb asks: A while back on Twitter you said you give every protagonist a feature you hate and even antagonist one you admire to prevent crea...
Question 1117: Why Have Sequels Gone Out of Fashion?
Roland asksI love Star Wars, but in the most narrow way. Episodes IV-VI and a few other things are pretty cool. But, I want new stories, not...
Question 1116: Is it a Prequel, or Just Book One?
Roland asks: A lot of authors say they’re writing a prequel (as a lead magnet) when they haven’t published, or even finished, Book 1 yet. I...
Question 1115: Why Are People Writing Prequels?
Roland asks: Indie authors are obsessed with prequels to their Book Ones but I don’t get it. I almost never want to know MORE about what hap...
Feedback: The Bradbury Challenge
Listener Ian has a progress report on doing the Bradbury Challenge for NanoWriMo The post Feedback: The Bradbury Challenge appeared first on...
Questions 1114: Developing a Young Character
Jim asks:Previously I mentioned I had a character who was 10 years old in a first book in a series. I had used him as a reader proxy, who ge...
Question 1113: Troubles Finishing
Pablo asks: I have been struggling with a manuscript for a novel since 2015. I begin, stop, give up, take it up again, and all the time it k...
Question 1112: Products of NaNoWriMo
Khellan asks:What happens to the stuff you and Kitty write during nanowrimo? Lost Days, Last Nights The post Question 1112: Products of NaNo...
Question 1111: Tough Truths About Loving Writing
Jim asks:I may have asked something like this before, but how does one rekindle the enjoyment of writing? It used to be a thing I did to avo...
Question 1110: Breaking Faith With Readers
Ed asks:What does it mean for an author to “break faith” with his readers? The Wheel of Time by Robert JordanPoodle Springs by Raymond Chand...
Question 1109: Writing the Right Sequel
Jim said:In my last question I talked about re-discovering the sequel I was supposed to be writing after spending 95,000 words on the wrong...
Question 1108: Writing the Wrong Novel
Jim asks:A little while back I dove into a sequel featuring my protagonist about fifteen years down the road. It was a big time jump, one I...
Question 1107: Film vs. Book: Characterization in Lord of the Rings
Indiana Jim:A couple years ago you did an epic twitter thread on what the Lord of the Rings films got wrong. Could you do an episode on this...
Where The Hell Have We Been?
A guide to surgery for writers and an update from the hosts. Healthy Living Can Be Deadly The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile The post Wher...
Quick Announcement
Quick show announcement – we will be back Monday. The post Quick Announcement appeared first on The Every Day Novelist .
Question 1106: Creativity and ADD
Jim asks: You’ve spoken before about how ADD and its derivatives can be a boon to the creative person, and the dangers of medicating it out....