13.36: Confronting the Default
Your Hosts: Brandon, Amal, Mary, and Maurice If you live in the northern hemisphere, inland, perhaps above the 40th parallel, you are probably quite sure that there are four distinct seasons. There a...
9 Sep 201818min
13.35: Cliché vs. Archetype
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard Tropes, archetypes, and even cliches are tools in our toolboxes. There's no avoiding them, but there are definitely ways to use them incorrectly. In this ep...
2 Sep 201820min
13.34: Q&A on Character Arcs
Your Hosts: Brandon, Valynne, Dan, and Howard You had questions. We came up with answers. The questions are below: * How do you fulfill promises about character arcs without being cliché? How do y...
26 Aug 201819min
13.b1: Bonus Episode — Elephants and Death, with Lawrence Schoen
Your Hosts: Howard and Dan, with special guest Lawrence Schoen Lawrence Schoen, clinical psychologist, cognitive hypnotist, small press publisher, Klingon language expert, and novelist, joined us at ...
22 Aug 201818min
13.33: Reading Outside the Box
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary, Aliette, and Howard, with Kristie Claxton Kristie Claxton joined us at WXR 2017 to talk about reading outside of the spaces where we're comfortable and familiar. Specifically, ...
19 Aug 201820min
13.32: How To Handle Weighty Topics
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Amal, and Maurice How can we, as writers, best handle weighty matters? This is our year on character, so we'll approach this with a focus on character creation, depiction, ...
12 Aug 201830min
13.31: Learning to Listen as a Writer
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard "Write what you know" gets misapplied a lot. In this episode we'll talk about how to know things by listening well. In particular, we're looking at writing ...
5 Aug 201820min
13.30: Project in Depth, THE CALCULATING STARS, with Kjell Lindgren
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, and Dan, with Kjell Lindgren Spoiler Alert! If you haven't yet read The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel, by Mary Robinette Kowal, you may wish to rectify that pri...
29 Juli 201831min
