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Questions 286: Passive Protagonists and Coming of Age

jdsawyer Nanocast May 27, 2017 May 25, 2017 One Comment

Subscribe Here! DC asks: “How can one write an effective and engaging passive protagonist?” Resources: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling Hadrian’s Flight by J. Daniel Sawyer The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Special Episode: Emergency NaNoWriMo (with Writer’s Block!)

jdsawyer Going Pro / Nanocast August 30, 2016 August 30, 2016 Leave a comment

Subscribe Here! A new recording block is upon us, and it comes on the heels of a protracted battle with writer’s block. I had to write an emergency novel-in-a-month, and boy was it a pain getting started! I tell you all about it within, and lift the curtain on some …