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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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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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Khellan asks:
What happens to the stuff you and Kitty write during nanowrimo?

Lost Days, Last Nights

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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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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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