Vega asks: What are the differences between Eastern and Western storytelling traditions? And how would you go about learning a different storytelling than you grew up with? Resources Mentioned Freytag’s triangle (5 act structure) Grimm’s Fairy Tales Doc Savage: The Thousand-Headed Man Starblazers
JB asks: Do you think that anxious people write better horror?
Resources Mentioned
Edgar Allan Poe, The Works of
Oscar Wilde, The Works of
It: A Novel by Stephen King
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Mary Shelley: The Ultimate Collection
The Complete HP Lovecraft
The Hills Have Eyes (original)
Hostel
Psycho
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Jessica asks: Do indie writers need to pay to play?
Melisa asks: How do I deal with self-doubt?
JB asks: How much time should I devote to learning versus doing? What’s the ideal writing education to writing ratio?
Melissa asks: How do you set realistic writing goals for yourself? I’d like to write at more and faster, but without crashing and burning on the way. Resources Mentioned: Questions 763: Avoiding Burnout
Today JR asks: “How’s your writing going?”
Today Simon asks: Do you record the episode numbers at the beginning of the episode separately?
Today we have feedback from Vega on 2019 goals.
Melisa asks: My writing gets compared favorably to Nathan Lowell’s. What story type is this, exactly? Resources Mentioned: Nathan Lowell Heinlein essay On the Writing of Speculative Fiction reprinted in Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, edited by Asimov Science Fiction Magazine Down From Ten by J. Daniel Sawyer The Resurrection Junket by J. Daniel …
