https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/ Writing Excuses Transcripts - Dreamwidth Studios Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:41:00 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios wetranscripts community https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/50720.html Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:41:00 GMT https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/50720.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 6.21: Brainstorming Random Ideas<br /><br />From <a href="http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/10/23/writing-excuses-6-21-brainstorming-from-story-seeds/">http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/10/23/writing-excuses-6-21-brainstorming-from-story-seeds/</a><br /><br />Key points: Who took Dan's dollar? Look for conflict, character, and premise. Find or make distinctive characters with quirks. Is there an antagonist? What can you do distinctive? Insert technobabble. Beware the Lizards of Leipzig! If you go last, someone may steal your pun.<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/50720.html#cutid1">Four amazing tales!</a></b><b class="cut-close">&nbsp;)</b></span><div style="display: none;" id="div-cuttag___1" aria-live="assertive"></div><br />[Brandon] I'll send mine to Howard so he can post them in the liner notes. Just... Mine are bullet points. You can see kind of how I outline a book by looking at my bullet points. Any of the others, if they want to send them along, will do it too. Hopefully, this was useful to you. 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=50720" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://wetranscripts.dreamwidth.org/50720.html technobabble premise antagonist character lizards of leipzig conflict pun random ideas distinctive punished public ext_88293 0