Questions 483: Banking Series of Series
Subscribe Here! Zoe asks: How many books should you bank ahead of time – write, edit, and prep for publishing – when you have a series of multiple trilogies?
Questions 482: Writing Outside Your Experience
Subscribe Here! Caine asks: How do you write characters that are very much outside your experience?
Questions 478: Low Hanging Fruit
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: What easy changes can I make to increase word count? Resources Mentioned Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Questions 477: Is It Just Me?
Subscribe Here! Zoe asks: If you lose interest in your project, how do you know if it’s the project that needs to change… or you? Resources Mentioned Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Questions 475: Pros and Cons of Realism
Subscribe Here! Zoe asks: When do you stick to realism and when you handwave for the sake of a good story? Resources The Martian, by Andy Weir The Fact and Fiction of Martian Dust Storms
Questions 473: Learning When to Learn More
Subscribe Here! Zoe asks: How do you know you need to learn more before successfully working on a specific project? This episode sponsored by BundleRabbit
Questions 472: Picking Titles
Subscribe Here! Celine asks: How do you pick great titles? Resources Mentioned Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Questions 471: The Invader Mindset
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: How do you get into the mindset of an invader culture? Resources Mentioned The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Paths of Glory
Questions 470: Is This Good Enough?
Subscribe Here! Zoe asks: How do you decide how/when to make your draft better? This episode sponsored by BundleRabbit
Questions 469: Self-Improvement
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: How do I know what I should work on to improve as a writer?