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S19 Ep06

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* Station Eternity gets a second printing!

* Team Rejection Count: 19

* Podcast transcript (zip of pdf, docx, txt files)

Main Topic: There are No Wasted Words

* Do you really need that many words before you get to the real story?

* “In media res” isn’t always the best way to start the action/story

* Ask questions of your characters to get going

* Free writing can loosen the words/ideas

* Playing with character names

* Soldier of the Mist by Gene Wolfe

* All You Need is Kill by Hiroshi Sakurazaka (Edge of Tomorrow is movie adaptation)

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