tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-14:3071550 Writing Excuses Transcripts Writing Excuses Transcripts 2012-07-24T11:39:00Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2017-04-14:3071550:61868 ext_88293 2012-07-24T11:39:00Z 2012-07-24T11:39:00Z swinging on a star public 0 Posted by: <span lj:user='mbarker.livejournal.com' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://www.dreamwidth.org/profile?userid=92151&amp;t=I'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png' alt='[identity profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://mbarker.livejournal.com/' rel='nofollow'><b>mbarker.livejournal.com</b></a></span><br /><br />Writing Excuses 7.30: Microcasting, Again.<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2012/07/22/writing-excuses-7-30-micocasting-again/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2012/07/22/writing-excuses-7-30-micocasting-again/</a><br /><br />The questions:<br />1. How do you deal with bad reviews?<br />2. How can you apply the laws of magic to science in science fiction?<br />3. How can you keep tension high without exhausting the reader?<br />4. What do you do when you've made your manuscript as good as you know how, and you don't know how to fix anything to make it better?<br />5. How do you create suspension of disbelief in your readers?<br />6. How do you deal with annoying fans?<br /><span class="cut-wrapper"><span style="display: none;" id="span-cuttag___1" class="cuttag"></span><b class="cut-open">(&nbsp;</b><b class="cut-text"><a href="https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/61868.html#cutid1">and the answers...</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Brandon] All right. I'm going to go ahead and give us a writing prompt. It's going to be the story of the writer and her alien fan who is just basically impossible to escape, because the alien's morphology or biology or whatever it is, whatever it is about them, makes it impossible for you to get away from them.<br />[Dan] Okay.<br />[Brandon] All right. This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=61868" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments