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- Writing Excuses 8.36: Transitioning Characters in Prominence
How do you go about transitioning characters in relative prominence during a series of books?
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Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content joins us to talk about discovery writing, and how he digs himself out of holes when he writes himself into them.
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The cast talks about their survivorship bias, and how to pay attention to that bias so that listeners can extract advice from us that might actually work for you
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How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction?
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Q&A covering workflow, contests, lantern-hanging, word counts, and more
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The cast talks about making dialogue, blocking, and description work together for exposition and story-telling.
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The cast discusses how to make reluctant, non-proactive, non-go-getting characters interesting to read about.
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The cast answers questions about publishing, formatting, process, and the Evil Nemesis John Scalzi.
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The team talks about contracts, and what you as an author staring at a contract should be considering.
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How do we break our books into chapters, and how to we build those chapters to begin with?
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