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- Writing Excuses 6.8: What an Agent Does
Howard Tayler and Dan Wells interview literary agent Sara Crowe about what agents do for authors, and why having an agent might be the right thing for your career.
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Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary brainstorm a cyberpunk story using concepts pulled at random from a mythology textbook.
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Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard take a high-level look at cyberpunk (the literary genre) for writers considering creating something along those lines.
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Sara Crowe, literary agent with Harvey Klinger, joins Dan and Howard for a discussion of query letters.
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Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field questions from the Twitterverse -- commercial publishing, finding balance, structuring stories, defining moments, and more.
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Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about SFWA, NCS, and other professional organizations for writers and creators.
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Brandon, Mary, Dan, & Howard discuss putting character motivations on the page in support of plot, character arcs, and the story in general.
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Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard discuss creativity -- how to learn it, how to teach it, and how to get better at it.
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Tom Smith joins Howard and Brandon at Penguicon for a discussion of Filk and some delightfully improvised music.
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John Scalzi joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of dialog and how genre fiction writers can learn to do a better job with it.
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