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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Ian asks: How do I avoid “filler words”?
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Terry asks: How do I know when I have the skills to fix my early first drafts?
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Charla asks: How do you mix genres without leaning too much on one genre over the other?
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JB asks: If a collaboration isn’t working, how do you get out of it gracefully?
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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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JB asks: What’s your baseline word count on good and bad days?
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Ian asks: Satire and humor is subjective, so how can we signal to the audience that we are joking?
Questions 646: Writing Believable Geniuses
Forest Gump by Winston Groom
Starship Stormtroopers essay by Michael Moorcock
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein
The Rolling Stones by Robert A. Heinlein
Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein (book and film)/
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
The Doctrine of Fascism by Benito Mussolini
The History of the Pelopennesian War by Thucydides
Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels
Slaugherhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
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Roland asks: Writing middle of the night ideas doesn’t work for me, but I’ve tried a few other tricks for remembering things. What do you think?
Resources Mentioned:
Method of Loci: wikipedia article and How Stuff Works article
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Charles asks: “What’s the difference between formula and structure, and what’s the best formula or structure for new writers?”
Resources Mentioned:
The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe (part of a collection)
Star Trek TNG
Star Trek DS 9
Hill Street Blues
NYPD Blue
The A Team
Babylon 5
Heinlein Juveniles
Hadrian’s Flight by J. Daniel Sawyer
Soulless by Gail Carriger
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King book and film
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