Feedback: Novel and Short Story Structure
Today JF has feedback on novel and short structures. Resources Mentioned: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin Join us at the Every Day Novelist Forums
Today JF has feedback on novel and short structures. Resources Mentioned: Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin Join us at the Every Day Novelist Forums
Charles asks: How do you keep short stories from escaping? Resources Mentioned: Red Alert by Peter George Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb The Long Watch by Robert A. Heinlein (included in The Green Hills of Earth) The Society of Miserable Bastards by J. …
JB asks: Every time I try NaNoWriMo, I fade out because I can’t focus on *just one story* at a time. What can I do?
JB asks: How can an author learn to switch story formats from screenplay and script to novel and short story, or vice versa? Resources Mentioned The A-Team Wiseguy Rockford Files The Tin Collectors, a novel by Stephen J. Cannell Star Wars,From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker (original novelization of A …
Subscribe Here! Ian asks: “I have a private eye novella that’s trying to turn into an immense crime soap opera. How do I shape the material?” Resources Mentioned Questions 540: Serials In Disguise And Then She Was Gone by J. Daniel Sawyer The Gap Cycle by Stephen R. Donaldson Babylon 5 The …
Subscribe Here! Chris asks: “Should I write the novel first, or the audiobook?” Resources Mentioned: Down From Ten by J. Daniel Sawyer The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy BBC radio drama Original Hitchhiker’s Radio Scripts
Subscribe Here! Charles asks: How long should a novel be to translate well to a one hour long television episode? Resources Mentioned: Undercover Blues Radioland Murders My Cousin Vinny His Girl Friday Clerks
Subscribe Here! Ian asks: How do you pull in the best influences from film and television into a novel, without mixing in the wrong elements? Resources Mentioned: Splinter of the Mind’s Eye Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: radio, television, and book
Subscribe Here! Amy asks: “I’d like to move from short fiction to novels. Any tips?”