https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:39:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/61868.html Tue, 24 Jul 2012 11:39:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/61868.html 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 https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/61868.html laws of magic fans science fiction tension suspension of disbelief reviews revision swinging on a star public ext_88293 0