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Write Pack Radio episodes

  • Walking the Road to Publication
    Walking the Road to Publication
    Link to this episode: http://tinyurl.com/nblytjt 
    In this episode, the Write Pack explores Walking the Road to Publication.
    What is the first step of publication after you wrote a story?
    What are some of the common characteristics of works that are not ready for publication?
    What is the difference between the art and the business of writing?
    Why is researching the places to submit to so important?
    How do you query, submit, etc. for publication?
    How do you find your publishers or agents?
    How can you aim your submissions?
    What should you watch out for?
    How to handle rejections.
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    1 hr 4 min
  • Trauma: How much is too much?
    Trauma: How much is too much?
    Link to this episode: http://tinyurl.com/h4dzqj4               
    In this episode, the Write Pack explores the trauma that characters endure.
    There are two types of trauma: Physical and Mental.
    How is trauma handled in our stories?
    Why write about traumatic incidents?
    Where do authors get it right?
    Where do authors get it wrong?
    What are the costs of trauma?
    How can physical trauma be used an obstacle or show something about your character?
    What are the mental traumas that come with physical trauma?
    What are the costs of mental trauma?
    How can characters react differently to mental trauma?
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    1 hr 2 min
  • One More Story Games—Games You Read, Books You Play
    Link to this episode: http://tinyurl.com/j72nrup               
    In this episode, the Write Pack, talk to Jean and Blair Leggett about how things are going with a different way of publishing—One More Story Games.
    What is a Story Telling Game?
    How is One More Story Games not just another gaming platform, but designed for readers and authors?
    How does One More Story Games transform a linear story line into an interactive game?
    How is One More Story Games a mixture of gaming and storytelling for writers and readers?
    How can using One More Story Games tie into an author’s work?
    How can someone write these types of story games?
    What should a reader-player expect in a story game?
     
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    1 hr 5 min
  • Developmental Editors
    Developmental Editors
    This episode comes from a request from one of our listeners.
     In this episode, the Write Pack, with special guest Mandy Schoen, explores Developmental Editors—what are they, why do we need them, and how are they different from copy editors?
     
    A link to the episode:
    What do developmental editors do?
    Why are developmental editors important in the polishing process of writing?
    How do you find developmental editors?
    How are they different from copy editor?
    What are the first signs that a story is not ready for the light of day?
     
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    1 hr 3 min
  • How to Create Aliens in Stories
    Due to techinial issues, we are reairing this episode:
    How to Create Aliens in Stories
    In this episode, the Write Pack explores creating aliens, monsters, and paranormal creatures. When we say alien, all of these will apply.
    How do you create aliens that look and don’t look like us?Are there limitations?What is the goal of the alien? Is there a reason behind the author’s creation?How would humans evolve as they go out to other worlds?What twists can you do with the aliens you create or use?How can folklore and mythology help create aliens?Why would the alien you create develop in the way they did?What are the social rules of your alien culture?How do the aliens communicate?How can all the different creatures on Earth inspire the alien you create?What is their society and civilization?What is the life cycle of the alien you create?How does the alien view time?How would racial, climate, and terrain diversity effect your alien?
     
    A link to the episode: http://tinyurl.com/h3to3eb
     
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    1 hr 3 min
  • Religion in Fiction
    In this episode Write Pack Radio, the Write Pack explores Religion in Fiction.
    In this episode, we are not talking about religious fiction or religion and politics, but the use of real and fictional religion in fiction. (There is also a drinking game in this episode around Kwisatz Haderach)
    How does religion appear in fiction?How can fiction be done poorly in fiction?How can fiction enhance science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy fiction, mystery fiction?How does the religion you choose to use or created effect the story world and the characters?
    Examples uses: Dune, Star Trek, Babylon 5, Lord of the Rings, Marvel, Percy Jackson, Record of Lodoss War, and more.
    A link to the episode: http://tinyurl.com/pl97krc
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    1 hr 2 min
  • Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing
    Kurt Vonnegut: 8 Basics of Creative Writing
    In this episode Write Pack Radio, the Write Pack explores KURT Vonnegut’s 8 Creative Writing Tips.
    In this episode, we cover:
    Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.Start as close to the end as possible.Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
    For the article: https://www.writingclasses.com/toolbox/tips-masters/kurt-vonnegut-8-basics-of-creative-writing
    Our episode: http://tinyurl.com/q8z7v2t
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    50 min
  • 10 Writing "Rules" We Wish More Authors Would Break--Part 2
    In this episode Write Pack Radio, the Write Pack explores io9’s wish list of rules that they would like to see authors (Science Fiction and Fantasy) start to break. We discuss these rules, why they exist, how to possibly break theme and how they are used across all genres.
    In this episode, we cover:
    6) No FTL
    7) Women can’t write “hard” science fiction.
    8) Magic has to be just a minor part of a fantasy world
    9) No present tense
    10) No “unsympathetic” characters
    For the article: http://io9.com/5879434/10-writing-rules-we-wish-more-science-fiction-and-fantasy-authors-would-break
    Our episode: http://tinyurl.com/qf7uqan
    Find all our episodes on iTunes and Blog Talk Radio. A new episode every Sunday.
    56 min
  • 10 Writing "Rules" We Wish More Authors Would Break--Part 1
    In this episode Write Pack Radio, the Write Pack explores io9’s wish list of rules that they would like to see authors (Science Fiction and Fantasy) start to break. We discuss these rules, why they exist, how to possibly break theme and how they are used across all genres.
    In this episode, we cover:
    No third-person omniscient.No prologuesAvoid infodumpsFantasy novels have to be series instead of standalones5) No portal fantasy
    For the article: http://io9.com/5879434/10-writing-rules-we-wish-more-science-fiction-and-fantasy-authors-would-break
    Our episode: http://tinyurl.com/n9svand
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    1 hr
  • The Importance of Failure
    In this emotional episode of Write Pack Radio, the Write Pack explores “failure” in the writing career:
    Society doesn’t always understand the growth in art, that what is perceived as failure is a stumble and growth.
    How do we, artist, measure our successes and our “failures.”
    Our “failures” are the teaching steps to improving our art.
    The effort of trying comes with failure, but every great success comes from learning from failure.
    All artist are entrepreneurs. Being an entrepreneur means walking on a road that has potholes, but we don’t stop. When we stop is when we fail.
    Society tends believe in the romance of the writing world and not at the loneliness of the literary life.
    How do we keep going? What keeps the artist/writer moving on to the next project?
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    http://tinyurl.com/puve2r8
    1 hr

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