Caine asks: When is it ok to add story details that don’t advance the plot?
Resources Mentioned:
Down From Ten by J. Daniel Sawyer
American Beauty
Deliverance
The Odyssey by Homer
The Illiad by Homer
Breaking Bad
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Charla asks: How do I pick the right conflicts for my story?
Resources Mentioned
Star Wars
Attack of the Clones
The Zero Effect
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Charla asks: Do you have any tips for finding the *right* character names.
Resources Mentioned:
Titan AE
Antithesis podcast
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Dawn: How do I keep up with the ideas that come at me in the middle of the night, when I’m half asleep.
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Simon asks: What are the main ways of structuring stories, and can you rate them?
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Dawn asks: All my ideas exit my brain when I sit down to write. What can I do?
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Simon asks: Do you track your time, and if so – with what?
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Dawn asks: How can we tell if we’re overdoing it on the pronouns?
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Ian asks: What’s your ideal writing process?
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Sarah asks: My magnus opus has general several thousand words of notes and backstory. What do I do?
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