On the ninth day of our challenge, a writer has a breakthrough and our gang talks about history in our lifetimes.
Resources Mentioned:
117BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric H Cline
Word Count:
Dan: 2300
Kitty: 1003
Tori: 200
Ben: 136
Dede: 0
Cumulative:
Dan: 11904
Kitty: 2961
Tori: 3798
Ben: 805
Dede: 4722
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On the third day of our challenge, our participants continue to deal with illness and breakthroughs. We discuss managing continuity in big universes.
Today’s Word Counts:
Dan 2058
Tori 780
Ben 415
Kitty 377
DD 0
Word Count Totals:
Dan 5444
Tori 1930
DD 1363
Kitty 947
Ben 415
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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 Conan Doyle
A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
The Red Wind by Raymond Chandler
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway
On The Road by Jack Kerouac
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Tom Swift and His Jetmarine by Victor Appleton II
Mort by Terry Pratchett
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams
Every Day Novelist Deep Characterization Series
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Reave the Just by Stephen R. Donaldson
Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice
The Bad Sex in Fiction Awards
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Today we introduce a series of questions from high school student Jason doing on a project on expertise, who asks: “I’m writing a story in which one can steal powers from those they kill. What fictional or real-world sources can I draw from?”
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Jeanne asks: “What about a medical apocalypse? Either as the cause or effect of the collapse of civilization?”
Resources Mentioned
1491 by Charles C. Mann
Earth Abides by George Stewart
The Stand by Stephen King
The Walking Dead (TV and comic series)
Resident Evil film series
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Omega Man (film)
The Last Man on Earth (film)
I am Legend (film)
28 Days Later
The Last Man by Mary Shelley
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London
World War Z by Max Brooks
Jeremiah TV series
12 Monkeys
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
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Robert asks: As a follow up to ep 499 – How would being a slave shape a character’s personality?
Resources mentioned
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
The Gulag Archipeligo by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
How the Scots Invented the Modern World
David Hume: The Essential Philosophical Works
Two Treatises of Government, John Locke
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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Simons asks: Are there any incorrect or inaccurate tropes that you just can’t stand?
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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
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