https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:51:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/35880.html Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:51:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/35880.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 Season Four Episode 33: Trunk Novels<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/08/22/writing-excuses-4-33-trunk-novels/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/08/22/writing-excuses-4-33-trunk-novels/</a><br /><br />Key points: Don't hold back. Go ahead and use your good ideas now. Save those cool ideas -- repurpose and look for the right project. Beware falling into eternal rewrite. Give yourself time to grow. Watch for zombie darlings that need to be killed again.<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/35880.html#cutid1">out of the grave</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Howard] But sometimes the sand blows carelessly and freely.<br />[Brandon] Yes, it does. OK, we're going to do your first strip next time. You have to give us a writing prompt, then.<br />[Howard] OK. I'm going to take a word from my first strip. Interspeciated workplace.<br />[Dan] Nice.<br />[Howard] Take the phrase "interspeciated workplace" and run with it to someplace besides Schlock Mercenary.<br />[Brandon] Or he'll sue you. That's your other writing prompt. Howard Tayler sues you.<br />[Howard] I just got a cease-and-desist from a web cartoonist.<br />[Dan] When you write schlock fan fiction.<br />[Brandon] OK. This has been Writing Excuses. Thank you to our wonderful audience for cheering and making monkey noises and... I'm going to hold one up now.<br />[We love Jordo]<br />[Brandon] And loving Jordo. This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.<br />[Applause]<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=wetranscripts&ditemid=35880" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/35880.html revision good ideas eternal rewrite reuse accursed public ext_88293 0