Ep 19: The Voices In Your Head - The Every Day Novelist

jdsawyer Nanocast November 18, 2015 November 18, 2015

There are voices you’ve absorbed from reading, and there are voices you’ve absorbed from living. Both will get in the way of your writing if you don’t figure out how to shut them up. Here are some techniques for doing just that.

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After a childhood in academia, J. Daniel Sawyer declared his independence by dropping out of high school and setting off on a series of adventures in the bowels of the film industry, the venture capital culture of silicon valley, surfing safaris, bohemians, burners, historians, theologians, adventurers, climbers, drug dealers, gangbangers, and inventors before his past finally caught up to him. Trapped in a world bookended by one wall falling in Berlin and other walls going up around suburbia and along national borders throughout the world, he rediscovered his deep love of history and, with it, and obsession with predicting the future as it grew aggressively out of the past. To date, this obsession has yielded over thirty books and innumerable short stories, the occasional short film, nearly a dozen podcasts stretching over a decade and a half, and a career creating novels and audiobooks exploring the world through the lens of his own peculiar madness, in the depths of his own private forest in a rural exile, where he uses the quiet to write, walk on the beach, and manage a production company that brings innovative stories to the ears of audiences across the world. For news and free stories, sign up for his occasional newsletter. Or find his contact info, podcasts, and more on his home page at http://www.jdsawyer.net

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Holy $#!+
Every writer needs to know this information

Caine

November 19, 2015 at 3:41 pm 9 years ago

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My “Internal Editor” starts to sound off almost immediately: this isn’t “big” enough to be a full completely story, you don’t have this fleshed out well enough yet, this isn’t interesting enough or cool enough yet keep working it conceptually.

It gets to the point where I never feel like I can stop world building….

Caine

November 19, 2015 at 3:55 pm 9 years ago

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