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Questions 708 – Where is the Setting?
Ian asks: “I’m struggling to find current examples of rich setting. Have authors stopped using setting, or am I not looking in the right place?”
Resources Mentioned
The Girl with the Deep Blue Eyes by Lawrence Block
Choke by Chuck Paulinuk
Setting: How to Create and Sustain a Sharp Sense of Time and Place in Your Fiction by Jack Bickham
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Questions 707 – Picking Cover Designers
Questions 706: Filler Words
Ian asks: How do I avoid “filler words”?
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Questions 705: When To Fix First Drafts
Terry asks: How do I know when I have the skills to fix my early first drafts?
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Questions 704: How to Mix Genres
Charla asks: How do you mix genres without leaning too much on one genre over the other?
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Questions 703 – Studying Heinlein
Indiana Jim: Can you recommend a reading list or reading order for getting to know Robert A. Heinlein?
Resources Mentioned
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein
Time Enough for Love by Robert A Heinlein
I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A Heinlein
Friday by Robert A Heinlein
Job by Robert A Heinlein
To Sail Beyond the Sunset by Robert A Heinlein
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls by Robert A Heinlein
Time For The Stars by Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
Farnham’s Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein
The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein
Double Star by Robert A Heinlein
The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A Heinlein
The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag, a collection by Robert A Heinlein
All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein (in the collection The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag)
and Predestination, based on All You Zombies
The Man Who Traveled in Elephants by Robert A. Heinlein (in the collection The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag)
The Green Hills of Earth & The Menace from Earth , a collection by Robert Heinlein
By His Bootstraps (in the collection The Green Hills of Earth & The Menace from Earth)
The Menace from Earth (in the collection The Green Hills of Earth & The Menace from Earth)
The Black Pits of Luna (in the collection The Green Hills of Earth & The Menace from Earth)
Gentlemen, Be Seated! (in the collection The Green Hills of Earth & The Menace from Earth)
The Long Watch (in the collection The Green Hills of Earth & The Menace from Earth)
The Man Who Sold the Moon by Robert A Heinlein
The Fantasies of Robert A. Heinlein
Red Planet by Robert A. Heinlein
Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein
Tunnel In The Sky by Robert A. Heinlein
Citizen of the Galaxy by Robert A. Heinlein
Have Space Suit, Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
Methuselah’s Children by Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein (book and film)
Orphans of the Sky by Robert A Heinlein
Requiem by Robert A. Heinlein
Revolt in 2100 by Robert A. Heinlein
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1: Learning Curve 1907-1948 by William Patterson
Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century, Vol. 2- The Man Who Learned Better, 1948-1988 by William Patterson
The Robert Heinlein Interview and Other Heinleiniana by J. Neil Schulman
Requiem: New Collected Works and Tributes to a Grand Master, ed by Yoji Kondo
Grumbles From the Grave by Robert A. Heinlein
Tramp Royale by Robert A. Heinlein
Take Back Your Government by Robert A. Heinlein
On Science Fiction ed. by Isaac Asimov
The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein
This I Believe: Our Noble, Essential Decency by Robert A. Heinlein (audiobook)
Heinlein on the Moon Landing (YouTube)
Heinlein in Dimension by Alexi Panshin
Hadrian’s Flight on Every Day Novelist
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Questions 702: Firehose, Analysis, and Magic
Ian asks: How can I reread my favorites over and over without losing my love for it?
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Questions 701: Collaboration, pt. 2
JB asks: If a collaboration isn’t working, how do you get out of it gracefully?
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Questions 700: Collaboration Woes, pt 1
JB asks: The story beats my story needs to hit don’t work with the character descriptions I have. What can I do?
Resources Needed
Babylon 5
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