Caine asks:
On episode 1063 of The Everyday Novelist you stated the following:

“If you lead with analysis beyond at any layer beyond the practical, your asking for years and years and years of spinning your wheels, it will not work”

I feel strongly that I’m in this zone right now. I’m spinning my wheels, if the above is not the exact issue, then it’s a large portion of what I’m going through.

Can you please go deeper into this point? What exactly is happening (in a general sense, since you don’t live in my head)? How am I contributing to it? What do I do to stop it?

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Nichole asks:
What value can you get converting a first person narration to third? What are the obstacles?

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Herb asks:
How would you handle writing your storylines as separate novels?

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Nichole shares an ingenious time management hack for getting more elbow room for her writing.

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Tim asks:
I’ve had some trouble writing steadily lately, as I understand you’ve been having issues with that, as well (Thanks for the NaNoGang 2022, regardless). How would you go about rebuilding a habit or writing steadily as of now?

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Simon asks:
What are your thoughts on keeping your cover to the conventions versus standing out a little?

Resources:
By Darkness Forged by Nathan Lowell
The Resurrection Junket by J. Daniel Sawyer

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Tim asks:
Could you describe your current approach to a long series? For context: I’m getting ready to launch a new project of many shorter books.

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Herb asks:

I know that stealing from two sources versus one is the difference between being inspired and plagiarizing, but what good old “I could have told that tale better.” I can’t be the first new writer to be inspired in part by watching some movie or reading some book and thinking “That’s a good idea, but here is how you tell it.” I know it has lead to classics in film. “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” is a perfect example of remaking a bad movie.

Is filing off the serial numbers and writing your version of a badly done novel a valid choice for an author looking to publish?

Dune
Hercules (myth)
Samson story (Book of Judges Chapters 13-16)
Conan (film and original books by Robert E. Howard)
Star Wars
Flash Gordon
The Hidden Fortress
La Morte D’Artur by Thomas Mallory
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Nichole asks:
Do you have any writing books/websites or YouTube Channels that you would recommend?
Any recommendation for books/websites/youtube channels on writing Science Fiction and fantasy?

Fiction Writing Master Class by William Caine
Empire of the Mind
Literature Devil YouTube Channel — Episode on Rey Skywalker and Fixing Rey
Collative Learning by Rob Agar
Writing to Sell by Scott Meredith
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy by Orson Scott Card
Writing the Blockbuster Novel by Albert Zuckerman
The Heroine’s Journey by Gail Carriger
The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile by J. Daniel Sawyer
Robert’s Rules of Writing by J. Daniel Sawyer
Becoming an Every Day Novelist by J. Daniel Sawyer
Drawing on the Power of Resonance in Writing by David Farland
Writing Excuses (First few seasons)
Brandon Sanderson’t BYU lecture series
Film Courage YouTube channel
Cinema Therapy YouTube Channel

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Nichole asks:
What are your most memorable writing sprints?

Throwing Lead
Down From Ten, podcast or paperback
And Then She Was Gone
Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile
The Coffee Service short story or podcast
Psyhco IV: The Beginning
Hadrian’s Flight

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