The Every Day Novelist
Summary: 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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Today the Nanogang talks about cheating at continuity…Word CountGail: 10398 Dan: 4762. Pub/Bus BoardKitty: 120pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5
Leader board: Dan: 2760.Kitty: 80pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5everydaynovelist dot com slash edn dash forums The Catcher in the Rye
Leader board: Dan: 2760. Kitty: 80pgs edited, 1.5 marketing task, compliance 0.5everydaynovelist dot com slash edn dash forums
Word CountsDan: 2534 Pub ChallengeKitty: 1 editing task 1 marketing task Q993: Using Foreign LanguagesNichole asks: Is there a good way to incorporate foreign languages into fiction?The Journeyer by Gary JenningsAztec by Gary JenningsThe Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoThe Dragonbone Chair by Tad WilliamsThe Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. TolkienThe Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A HeinleinA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgesseverydaynovelist dot com slash edn dash forums
Today we announce the January Nanowrimo. (Najawrimo?) and we have feedback from Simon.Resources MentionedBatman vs. SupermanRogue OneThe Oldest Honorable ProfessionQuestions 965: Marvel Vs. DCIsaac Arthur’s Youtube channeleverydaynovelist dot com slash edn dash forums/
Simon asks:Will AI be able to create reasonable stories over the near-term, or within our lifespans? Resources Mentioned We Create Worlds
Robert asks: What is the social place of sports? What served that function in the distant past, and what might serve that function in the future? Braveheart Disney’s Pocohantas The Patriot Suave Rob’s Awesome Adventures Starship Troopers (film) Free Solo Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Nichole Asks: One of my chapters had ballooned out of control so I divided it up into three new chapters, but rather than reordering the chapters multiple times, I’ve temporarily renumbered them as subsets of the original – 6a, 6b and 6c. Are there other ways to manage of your chapters while writing? The Clarke Lantham Mysteries Predestination podcast
Simon asks: Who/What are your top three favorite Doctor Who baddies and why? Resources Mentioned Doctor Who
Robert asks: Do you have any suggestions for writing an effective blurb for a sequel, as opposed to a blurb for a standalone or a first in a series?
Simon asks: How can “I’ll give you one” work with sci-fi and fantasy, where there’s often multiple aspects of the stories that one needs to suspend disbelief. Walt Disney: The Plausible Impossible Protective Mimicry by Clifford D. Simak Dead Alive
Nichole has feedback on the Suspension of Disbelief episode. Best Science Fiction Stories of Clifford D. Simak Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams The Complete Stories of Isaac Asimov The Adventures of the Stainless Steel Rat by Harry Harrison Soylent Green by Harry Harrison Captive Universe by Harry Harrison
Roland has feedback on the episodes Adjusting Your Future History on the Fly and Don’t Abandon That Future History! Resources Mentioned The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle King David’s Space Ship by Jerry Pournelle http://www.chronology.org/pournelle/
Today, Herb has feedback on the recent episode on author burnout, with a unique solution to refilling the tank. The Ray Bradbury Challenge (from a speech at the University of California) Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats The Collected Poems of Robert W. Service The Complete Works of Robert E. Howard Last Night of the Earth Poems by Charles Burkowski In Defense of Sanity: The Best of G.K. Chesterton Against Interpretation: And Other Essays by Susan Sontag The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwicke How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander Chee Collected Works of H.L. Menken
Charlie says: I plan to have the Heroine join the Hero in parts of the journey, but without a sexual relationship. How to maintain interest and tension in an opposite sex friendship without sex or romance? Black Jack Justice series page Black Jack Justice (book 1), by Gregg Taylor Encyclopedia Brown by Donald J. Sobol Henry Reed, Inc. by Keith Robertson
