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Question 1105: Changing the Way You Listen Apr 09, 2024

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Today we have feedback from Khellan on changing the way you listen and getting out of your own way.

archivos

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Question 1104: Building Life Experience Apr 05, 2024

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Joe asks: Lots of young people want to be writers, but don’t have enough life experience to write anything interesting. What ways do you recommend to gain that sort of life experience?

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
City Slickers

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Questions 1103: Cannell’s Secret Sauce Apr 04, 2024

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Indiana Jim asks: Stephen J. Cannell produced some of the best television shows ever, and I know you’re an aficionado. What was his secret sauce for engaging and enduring episodic storytelling?

Wiseguy
Rockford Files
The A Team
Silk Stalkings
The Commish

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Catch-up & Announcements Apr 03, 2024

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A handful of announcements, or what we’ve been up to.

The Write Stuff
50 by 50 Challenge
Lost Days, Last Nights announcement post
The Shoes I Wore This Morning, a sample of the Lost Days collection
Unfolding the World substack
And Then She Was Gone

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Question 1102: Reading as a Writer Jan 26, 2024

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Joe asks:
I’ve been enjoying these short q&a podcasts! Here’s a question for your next one: what is your take on reading as a writer? Do you believe it’s important to read widely in the genre you write, or to avoid your genre and read widely in everything else? I’ve heard arguments for both sides. Or is it better not to read at all?

The Bible
The Homeric Epics
The Aneaid
The Divine Comedy
Shakespeare
The Arabian Nights
Sophacles

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Question 1101: Pacing in Action-Adventure Jan 25, 2024

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Tim asks:

What’re your opinions on pacing an Action-adventure novel? How much action is actually necessary?

King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Sahara by Clive Cussler
Indiana Jones
Romancing the Stone
The Killing Floor by Lee Child
Jurrassic Park (film)
Congo (film)
The Lost World by Doyle
The Mummy

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Question 1100: Finding Public Domain Books Jan 24, 2024

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Where/how do you go to track down and read those books out of copyright? You mentioned King Solomon’s Mine recently and I’d love to get a copy of that on my ereader if there’s a free resource to grab it.

Notes:
Archive.org
SFFaudio.org
LibriVox

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Question 1099: Measuring Yourself as a Writer Jan 23, 2024

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Caine asks:
In a self evaluation of our own skill sets/aptitudes as a writer, what identifiers should exist that would indicate we have developed into a substantial professional writer? How do we know that we have what we need skills wise? What should we be able to do? What should we be NOT doing?

King Con by Stephen J. Cannell

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Question 1098: Getting Back In The Mood Jan 22, 2024

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Khellan asks:
I’ve recently started carving out some “guaranteed” time to write fiction 3 times a week. It’s been a long time. Do you have any tools or tricks to get you back in the particular headspace or mood for the specific story you’re working on, or have you ingrained the habit well enough that not writing is always the problem for you?

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