Questions 734: When You Don’t Like Your Writing
Dawn asks: What can you do if you hate what you’ve written, but your first reader loves it? Subscribe Here!
Dawn asks: What can you do if you hate what you’ve written, but your first reader loves it? Subscribe Here!
Robert asks: What should I look for in covers and cover art, and how do I make sure my next cover is awesome? Subscribe Here!
Roland asks: “Can you elaborate on changes in conversational style and dialog tags then (1960s and earlier) vs. now? Are these changes linear or cyclical?” Resources Mentioned At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft Conan the Barbarian Series by Robert E Howard The Complete Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur …
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: “How would one convey slapstick in writing?” Resources Mentioned Phule’s Company, by Robert Aspirin Lamb to the Slaughter and Pig, by Roald Dahl in collection Kiss, Kiss Home Alone Monty Python’s Flying Circus This episode sponsored by BundleRabbit
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: “I want to learn to flesh out side characters by writing heists/capers. What do I need to know?” Resources Mentioned: The Thomas Crowne Affair The Italian Job Gone in 60 Seconds The Great Muppet Caper
Subscribe Here! Simon asks: “Dr. Who uses time travel as an excuse for other stories, rather than a focus. What other stories bait-and-switch the audience like this?” Resources Mentioned Q. 561: Space Opera Voyagers! TV series Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Star Trek IV: The …
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: “What social phenomena drive interest in disaster fiction?” Resources Mentioned Titanic Poseiden Adventure Towering Inferno Resident Evil 28 Days Later The Blob Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Subscribe Here! Simon asks: “What are the genre rules for space opera?” Resources Mentioned: The Ring Cycle by Wagner The Oedipus Trilogy by Sophocles King Lear by Shakespeare I, Claudius by Robert Graves, and miniseries The Foundation by Isaac Asimov The Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson The Mistress by Danielle Steele …
Subscribe Here! Robert asks: “How would you go about subverting the expected pacing of a genre and still make it work?” Resources Mentioned: One Shot by Lee Child Trevayne: A Novel by Robert Ludlum The Hunt For Red October by Tom Clancy Debt of Honor by Tom Clancy Coma by …
Subscribe Here! Brian asks: What’s a good straightforward tutorial for doing cover art? Resources Mentioned: Joel Friedlander’s Monthly eBook Cover Design Awards Becoming an Every Day Novelist by J. Daniel Sawyer Createspace Cover Design Resources Questions Ep. 176: When Your Ideas Show Up on TV Scream Taken By The T-Rex