12.43: Serialized Storytelling
Your Hosts: Brandon, Piper, Dan, and Howard We're talking about the extreme long-form serial story here, and how to keep things interesting without forcing the main characters into an absurdly high n...
22 Okt 201722min
12.42: Adapting Your Stories for Game Play, with Alan Bahr
Your Hosts: Mary, Dan, and Howard, with guest host Beth Meacham Alan Bahr of Ragnarok Publications, joined us at LTUE 2017 to talk about adapting a licensed property for a game, and preserving the f...
15 Okt 201714min
12.41: Raising the Stakes
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley When we talk about "raising the stakes," we mean making the outcomes of the events in a story increasingly important to the reader. In this episode we...
8 Okt 201720min
12.40: Structuring a Novel
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard What makes something a novel, rather than just a serialized collection of stuff that happens? How do we use structure to turn collections of stuff into some...
1 Okt 201718min
12.39: Q&A on Short(er) Fiction
Your Hosts: Brandon, Piper, Dan, and Howard Our listeners sent us some questions about writing shorter fiction. Here are the questions: * How do you market short stories today? * Has ebook self...
24 Sep 201720min
12.38: What Do Editors Really Want, with Toni Weisskopf and Cat Rambo
Your Hosts: Dan and Howard Toni Weisskopf and Cat Rambo joined Dan and Howard to discuss what it is that editors "really want." Question To Help You Decide Whether Or Not To Send Your Editor Bad New...
17 Sep 201717min
12.37: Subplots
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Mary Anne, and Wesley What makes a plot a subplot? Must subplots and main plots be linked by something more binding than the actual binding of the book? In this episode we...
10 Sep 201720min
12.36: Structuring a Mid-Length Piece
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard Larger than a short story, smaller than a novel... there's quite a bit of space between those two thresholds, and in this episode we discuss the ways in whi...
3 Sep 201719min
