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J. Daniel Sawyer
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Question 1110: Breaking Faith With Readers
The Every Day Novelist
06/11/24 • 14 min
Ed asks:
What does it mean for an author to “break faith” with his readers?
The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
Poodle Springs by Raymond Chandler and Robert B Parker
Variable Star by Robert A Heinlein and Spider Robinson
The Silmarillion
The Game of Thrones
Writing Excuses podcast
A Subversive Masterpiece
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Question 1111: Tough Truths About Loving Writing
The Every Day Novelist
06/11/24 • 8 min
Jim asks:
I may have asked something like this before, but how does one rekindle the enjoyment of writing? It used to be a thing I did to avoid doing things I didn’t want to do, like finding time in the middle of the work day to sneak in some words, or a thing I did to prove to myself I could do it. It seems like as soon as it became a thing to do as a potential career, suddenly it’s the thing I don’t want to do, and it became the video games rather than the writing, which is now the expected work. How do I fix it?
The Clarke Lantham Mysteries
Chinatown
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Question 1112: Products of NaNoWriMo
The Every Day Novelist
06/12/24 • 6 min
Khellan asks:
What happens to the stuff you and Kitty write during nanowrimo?
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Question 1107: Film vs. Book: Characterization in Lord of the Rings
The Every Day Novelist
06/04/24 • 27 min
Indiana Jim:
A couple years ago you did an epic twitter thread on what the Lord of the Rings films got wrong. Could you do an episode on this topic so we can learn how to avoid these pitfalls in characterization?
Original twitter thread
We Need To Talk About Frodo
Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. TolkienLord of the Rings film series
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Question 1113: Troubles Finishing
The Every Day Novelist
06/13/24 • 16 min
Pablo asks:
I have been struggling with a manuscript for a novel since 2015. I begin, stop, give up, take it up again, and all the time it keeps evolving in my head. Now it’s an unfinished chaotic first draft, only 38 pages so far.
I’d like to be done with it so I can move to something else. I’ve never finished anything except for a 20-page short story during pandemic lockdown. The narratives for the short story and the novel merged in my head, so the finished short story has details that connect with the unfinished novel.
I’d like to start writing the novel from scratch again, but that feels like more of what I’ve done before. So, do you have any recommendations on how to proceed?
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Radio series
Down From Ten
The Clarke Lantham Mysteries
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Question 1117: Why Have Sequels Gone Out of Fashion?
The Every Day Novelist
06/21/24 • 12 min
Roland asks
I 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 with filling in the past and giving fans all those empty Easter eggs?
Star Wars original trilogy
Godfather 2
A Subversive Masterpiece: Alien 3 article
Alien/Aliens/Alien 3
Alien Vs. Predator
Fire and Blood (Game of Thrones prequel)
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
Dune Messiah
Children of Dune
God Emperor of Dune
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Questions 1114: Developing a Young Character
The Every Day Novelist
06/14/24 • 10 min
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 adult-sized life-or-death stakes?
Hadrian’s Flight
Between Planets
The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile
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Feedback: The Bradbury Challenge
The Every Day Novelist
06/18/24 • 5 min
Listener Ian has a progress report on doing the Bradbury Challenge for NanoWriMo
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Question 1120: What is a play?
The Every Day Novelist
07/11/24 • 7 min
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.
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Feedback: Publisher Fit
The Every Day Novelist
06/01/21 • 3 min
Ed has feedbacon on episode 888, on creative freedom and racist publishers.
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The Every Day Novelist currently has 312 episodes available.
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