The Every Day Novelist

Jul 16 2024 300 ep. 11 mins 327
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The Every Day Novelist delivers a new 3 to 30 minute episode each day discussing writing craft, discipline, publishing, and business, all geared toward helping you achieve a professional pace (four to twelve or more novels in one year) in your writing. The direction of the show is steered by your questions, ideas, and disagreements.

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Question 1122 How does the Homestead Affect Writing?

Jul 16 2024 9 mins  
Joe asks:How has living on a homestead affected your writing life? If you had to do it over again, what would you do differently?

Question 1121: Sacred ideas and Adapting from Screenplays

Jul 11 2024 9 mins  
Brad asks: Do you ever collaborate or bounce ideas with other authors? And any advice on writing a screenplay first, then adapting the story into a novel? Down From TenAnd Then She Was Gone

Question 1120: What is a play?

Jul 10 2024 7 mins  
Caine asks: What is a play? Not the mechanics of how documents are formatted or anything like that, but what Plays are, what they aren’t, and why people would write one. www.storybundle.com/steampunk

Questions 1119: Filling Up the Corners

Jul 09 2024 17 mins  
Roland asks:I want to write short stories to give my readers an extra taste of my characters and side characters, but my mind goes blank trying to come up with a story. I imagine scenes and situations all the time, but they don’t feel very standalone. I also have lots of ideas for long things like novels or novellas, but when it comes to shorts, I come up short, too. Q-in

Question 1118: Preventing Author Avatars

Jul 08 2024 16 mins  
Herb asks: A while back on Twitter you said you give every protagonist a feature you hate and even antagonist one you admire to prevent creating characters who are just your avatar in the story. What is your process for inserting them transparently and selecting the traits? What are some examples from your work? Hadrian’s FlightInsensitivity ReadersRevenge of th

Question 1117: Why Have Sequels Gone Out of Fashion?

Jun 21 2024 12 mins  
Roland asksI love Star Wars, but in the most narrow way. Episodes IV-VI and a few other things are pretty cool. But, I want new stories, not dozens of prequel movies and series. Why are they afraid to go forward vs living in the Star Wars past? It’s not just Star Wars, either. I see the same thing with Game of Thrones and many popular book series. Why are they so obsessed

Question 1116: Is it a Prequel, or Just Book One?

Jun 20 2024 7 mins  
Roland asks: A lot of authors say they’re writing a prequel (as a lead magnet) when they haven’t published, or even finished, Book 1 yet. I know what they mean, but if they release ‘the prequel’ first, then isn’t that just Book 1 and not actually a prequel? The HobbitThe Three Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, AntigoneRomeo and Juli

Question 1115: Why Are People Writing Prequels?

Jun 19 2024 28 mins  
Roland asks: Indie authors are obsessed with prequels to their Book Ones but I don’t get it. I almost never want to know MORE about what happened before Book 1. Why have prequels become such a thing these days? Star Wars Prequel TrilogyStar Trek VJob (the Bible)Clash of the Titans (1981)The Story of King JosiahThe Hobbit and Lord of the RingsDuneThe Complete HP Love

Feedback: The Bradbury Challenge

Jun 18 2024 5 mins  
Listener Ian has a progress report on doing the Bradbury Challenge for NanoWriMo

Questions 1114: Developing a Young Character

Jun 14 2024 10 mins  
Jim asks:Previously I mentioned I had a character who was 10 years old in a first book in a series. I had used him as a reader proxy, who gets into a little trouble but isn’t really a protagonist. How do I take a character who is now 15, grow him beyond proxy and make him interesting enough to turn pages, but not so interesting that he’s trying to drive an adult book with adul