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Question 1122 How does the Homestead Affect Writing?

kittyniciaian Uncategorized July 16, 2024 July 14, 2024 Leave a comment

Joe asks:How has living on a homestead affected your writing life? If you had to do it over again, what would you do differently?

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Question 1121: Sacred ideas and Adapting from Screenplays

Question 1121: Sacred ideas and Adapting from Screenplays
kittyniciaian Uncategorized July 11, 2024 July 10, 2024 Leave a comment

Brad asks: Do you ever collaborate or bounce ideas with other authors? And any advice on writing a screenplay first, then adapting the story into a novel? Down From TenAnd Then She Was Gone

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Question 1120: What is a play?

kittyniciaian Uncategorized July 10, 2024 July 10, 2024 Leave a comment

Caine asks: What is a play? Not the mechanics of how documents are formatted or anything like that, but what Plays are, what they aren’t, and why people would write one. www.storybundle.com/steampunk

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Questions 1119: Filling Up the Corners

Questions 1119: Filling Up the Corners
kittyniciaian Uncategorized July 9, 2024 July 10, 2024 Leave a comment

Roland asks:I want to write short stories to give my readers an extra taste of my characters and side characters, but my mind goes blank trying to come up with a story. I imagine scenes and situations all the time, but they don’t feel very standalone. I also have lots …

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Question 1118: Preventing Author Avatars

Question 1118: Preventing Author Avatars
kittyniciaian Uncategorized July 8, 2024 July 10, 2024 Leave a comment

Herb asks: A while back on Twitter you said you give every protagonist a feature you hate and even antagonist one you admire to prevent creating characters who are just your avatar in the story. What is your process for inserting them transparently and selecting the traits? What are some …

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Question 1117: Why Have Sequels Gone Out of Fashion?

Question 1117: Why Have Sequels Gone Out of Fashion?
kittyniciaian Uncategorized June 21, 2024 June 18, 2024 Leave a comment

Roland asksI love Star Wars, but in the most narrow way. Episodes IV-VI and a few other things are pretty cool. But, I want new stories, not dozens of prequel movies and series. Why are they afraid to go forward vs living in the Star Wars past? It’s not just …

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Question 1116: Is it a Prequel, or Just Book One?

Question 1116: Is it a Prequel, or Just Book One?
kittyniciaian Uncategorized June 20, 2024 June 18, 2024 Leave a comment

Roland asks: A lot of authors say they’re writing a prequel (as a lead magnet) when they haven’t published, or even finished, Book 1 yet. I know what they mean, but if they release ‘the prequel’ first, then isn’t that just Book 1 and not actually a prequel? The HobbitThe …

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Question 1115: Why Are People Writing Prequels?

Question 1115: Why Are People Writing Prequels?
kittyniciaian Uncategorized June 19, 2024 June 18, 2024 Leave a comment

Roland asks: Indie authors are obsessed with prequels to their Book Ones but I don’t get it. I almost never want to know MORE about what happened before Book 1. Why have prequels become such a thing these days? Star Wars Prequel TrilogyStar Trek VJob (the Bible)Clash of the Titans …

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Feedback: The Bradbury Challenge

Feedback: The Bradbury Challenge
kittyniciaian Uncategorized June 18, 2024 June 17, 2024 One Comment

Listener Ian has a progress report on doing the Bradbury Challenge for NanoWriMo

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Questions 1114: Developing a Young Character

Questions 1114: Developing a Young Character
kittyniciaian Uncategorized June 14, 2024 June 11, 2024 Leave a comment

Jim asks:Previously I mentioned I had a character who was 10 years old in a first book in a series. I had used him as a reader proxy, who gets into a little trouble but isn’t really a protagonist. How do I take a character who is now 15, grow …

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