The 5 Formulae – excerpt from Secrets with Kitty’s Commentary
Kitty reads an excerpt from Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile heinleinsecrets.com
Kitty reads an excerpt from Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile heinleinsecrets.com
Charles asks: How would one get a hold of all the Heinlein Juveniles? Amazon only has a few of them on Kindle, and not all of them are in print. Resources Mentioned: Rocket Ship Galileo Space Cadet Red Planet Farmer in the Sky (audio) Between Planets The Rolling Stones Starman …
Indiana Jim asks “Why was Starship Troopers, the film, so bad??” Resources Mentioned Starship Troopers film and book Flesh & Blood Robocop Basic Instinct Showgirls The Hollow Man A Bridge Too Far Black Book Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes by Jacques Ellul The Goebbels Diaries Rules for Radicals by …
Today Melisa asks: “When you talk about Heinlein’s works, why don’t you talk about Stranger In A Strange Land?” Dune by Frank Herbert Number of the Beastby Robert A. Heinlein Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien The Pursuit of the Pankera by …
Indiana Jim: Can you recommend a reading list or reading order for getting to know Robert A. Heinlein? Resources Mentioned The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A Heinlein Time Enough for Love by Robert A Heinlein I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A Heinlein Friday by Robert A Heinlein …
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 …
Subscribe Here! Dan Dan The Art Man asks: “I’m really struggling with Heinlein’s Third Rule. How can you NOT rewrite and still turn out good stories? Can we fix stories before we abandon them?” Books discussed: The Republic by Plato
Subscribe Here! Today, I talk about the Character Climax in Hadrian’s Flight, the denouement, and the experience of finishing up my first ever successful attempt to write a Heinlein Juvenile. Interesting revelations about the nature of creativity and young adult literature ensue. This marks the final episode in this series …
Subscribe Here! Josh asks: “I’m re-reading Rocketship Gallileo and noticing that Heinlein manages to infodump without infodumping. How did he pull this off?”
Subscribe Here! Today I discuss the experience of writing the action climax to the book, and how I was able to solve some big problems by finding the answers within the book-to-date, including some unexpected twists. I also talk about how the Heinlein Juveniles have a bifurcated story structure in …