Story In Mind

Should Russia go to Mars? And, a raincoat makes noise.

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Sabotaging the hero’s journey. Step 1.

How to end a writing project.

Is an author an identity?

Is the world a stage? If so, can we write the play?

How the scene’s COV character argues theme.

Centring the writing.

Writing the centre.

Weaving manuscripts together update.

Exploring character description.

Characters who change their mind.

What portrait do you keep upstairs?

Development needs error.

The author experience in chunks.

Can we shape a reader?

The novel is a play.

What separates characters?

When is the editing over?

Blue birds, angels, and psychopomps.

Is your protagonist your outlook?

Should your main character be your best friend? [part one]

Building on subtext.

Shifting consciousness.

Should our book sell itself?

Do characters think in sentences?

Using a logic gate to create clarity.

Working on the outline / synopsis leads to a missing piece.

Can we make a story that helps others get through a difficult time?

Capitalizing on a productive day.

Mixing promotion with local fandom.

How far will sublimation take us?

One side of a setting.

Looking at storytelling as a building up of layers.

Keeping the wheel of fate moving.

Different ways of telling the tale.

Is the narrator in the first person? Why so?

Starting off by leaving room for the reader to fill in details.

Is feeding pedestrian crows like getting published? * unmasked exposé *

Talking with an archivist-storyteller about time travelling postcards.

Letting go of the old narrative.

A new paradigm for an old narrative.

A perfect storm leads to smoking tobacco.

Are they ∅ne?

Disagreement in three acts.

It's about transformation.

Bring your story to the plot.

Should we leave or should we stay?

What is the role model we are creating?

Obscuring the clear.

Instead of Objectification...

Imagine how much we could get done.

Manuscript as garden.

Are all plot points false?

Writing against fear, hate, and violence.

Vancouver comicbook creator.

Interpreting the frozen moment.

The safety of writing upstairs.

Valuing other points of view.

The uncivilized non scene.

A binary fiction.

A place to promote your work.

From LOTR to Star Wars, scene that reflect.

Is it all business?

A Dickensian serial and When Words Collide.

Are all characters the same?

Can we know everything?

An author talks influences, process, and goals.

Memories of Blade Runner. Is it us?

Or are they different?

Take your scene apart to see how it works.

Making sense of your story.

Hobbits versus Wights

Turning away from the plot.

And, do it again.

Starting with using old characters and ending with archetypes.

Why seek the magical boon?

How to reuse exposition.

Cyborg mindset.

The POV character, the storyteller, or no one at all.

Is each part of the three-act structure the same?

Do we focus on the journey, the destination, or both?

To distinguish different plot and story elements.

The danger of writing the unreal.

Most story arcs seem to be external.

How much does a writer give up?

Making your manuscript personal.

Creating intrigue in a story and plot.

Publishing as survival.

The effect of changing a previous publication.

Why write criminals?

The manuscript as audience.

The pirates of Gray Hawk.

Is there only one story?

Choosing to play.

... beta readers, critique partners, editors, and writers groups.

Is it success?

Dare we oppose expectation?

What's happiness?

Shapeshifting outlines.

Crossing the creative border.

Are tablets better?

Shallow or deep, does it matter?

Why we avoid branding.

On writing The Book Of Forbidden Wisdom.

On writing Fantasy and Horror in Washington.

A character's limitations.

Is the sock puppet a spy?

Unpacking some beginnings.

A poet on process.

Let's write about it.

One door opens and another closes.

Why tales end.

Why characters argue theme.

How much is too much?

Raked over the coals by a sock puppet.

Further examining the crisis point.

Bad characters made good.

Goldmine of character conflict.

Is a character alive or dead?

Getting into a characters mind.

How to stitch together separate manuscript POVs.

Irrational fears and wonder.

Unpacking a German classic.

POV feelings that get in the way.

How does a protagonist's inner journey transform them?

Why rewrite history?

Unpacking the Imagery of a fellow writer.

Making use of old manuscripts.

How far can you take writing?

Exploring the internal story.

A character's flaw becomes what they need.

Thinking outside the books.

Characters reacting.

Making room for intuition.

Slowing down the protagonist.

An actress on storytelling.

Using old manuscripts to make a new one.

A story experiment in second person.

What is a good scare?

Getting out of the way of creativity.

Ghosts! Recorded 3 months back.

From description to alignment.

Post book launch thoughts on promotion, and networking.

At the book launch of What The Wind Brings.

Vancouver's looking glass author.

Returning to a first draft.

What's up with Egyptian deities.

TG Shepherd and I talk Cap.

Are novels machines?

Are our characters what they wear?

Walk and talk around the old neighbourhood.

The host of Invaders From Planet Three.

A meaningful backdrop.

Making money to make books.

Imitation at what price?

What the story surrounds.

Are stories new memories?

What do we want to experience? (Big pause at one point.)

From comic book to TV spec script.

Dream jobs that might be nightmares.

A writer lets go of what isn't true.

Examining two new characters.

Finishing comic book project.

What would make us champion our own work?

Why do we put out below-par work?

Leftover episode about making paper, printing, and binding.

An old project anew.

Magical linguistics in Fantasy. Leftover from 2 months back.

Making plans after the convention's cancellation.

My scifi / fantasy convention gets cancelled.

Collaboration weirdness.

I await the fallout of the convention chair stepping down.

Final marketing for the scifi convention.

The role puppets play.

Getting ready for the convention!

A ramble about dialogue.

"O! for a muse of fire,.."

A labyrinth inside and out.

When characters take over.

Writing the Fantastic in Pittsburgh!

The spirit of a place.

Is the tale also the teller?

A writer on literature, wine, and chocolate.

Writing speculative scfi fantasy in Scotland.

Two scifi fans and their convention.

Leaving to find oneself.

Is it where the heart is?

An author of cosmic horror answers questions.

Talking about sleuthing.

Layering texts.

Child of a novel and a short story?

Juggling many stories.

Plagiarism or Inspiration?

Do your scenes argue the point?

A coyote joins us on the morning walk.

Can we shape our myths?

East meets west.

What story are we leaving?

What are the side effects of maps in fiction?

An author with wonderfully bizarre answers.

What our Fantasy stories say about us.

Form as summary.

The experience of being off the grid.

Writing under an assumed name.

A South African writer talks about the craft!

Promoting your work with media.

The reminder above Ray Bradbury's typewriter.

Rain and structure.

From Plato to imago.

I talk non structure and get attacked by a crow.

Why wear a mask?

Creating storylines.

Merging a number of characters together.

The story-weaver of Shimmerworld answers a few questions.

Taking the story's pulse.

Dungeon Master.

Big monsters of the mind.

One's own goldmine.

Talking writing, Vancouver, and VCON.

Exploring an argument.

What copy editing isn't.

A place I'm worldbuilding.

Beachside meditation on marketing.

Interviewing the author of The Garden Of Darkness and The Book Of Forbidden Wisdom.

Aiding the reader with clarity.

On writing the paranormal in Nebraska.

Straight talk on the arcs.

Interview with the author of Project Unison.

What topics make a book worth writing and reading?

A lunar setting in my Fantasy world.

Shaping beginnings and endings.

How do you hew hue?

Why write stories we don't like?

The city in Gray Hawk Of Terrapin.

Reading the Argentine writer.

Interview with the fantastic author of Ontyre Passages.

Two fantastic members of the local science fiction convention.

Hero of Midgard's author talks about inspirations.

Three books I love to hate.

Can we live in the imagination?

Should we read reviews?

Is there only one scene?

How much of oneself to reveal to a book buyer.

The author of Fallen Princeborn: Stolen talking about a life of words.

Interviewing the author of The Rose Thief and the Gaia Effect series.

Interviewing Scott about comic books, movies, and fandom.

Tour of the Terrapin city of Wednesday.

Ways of seeing.

Visiting some settings for some scenes.

My Fantasy world as travel destination.

Can we separate the art from the artist?

A way to divvy up roles.

Mixing and matching characters.

Antagonist as person, reflection, and antithesis.

Talking on different levels.

Don't write crap.

Marketing the biographical movie.

After some successful rewriting.

Versus editing and revisioning.

Grabbing hold and not letting go.

The value of truth.

Making it immersive.

An Asian narrative style.

What is a "good" read? Can we agree on a definition?

Talking with BSFA and VCON Ambassador for Life.

Fictional? Or are we them?

A sci-fi ship of state.

The difficulty of multiple drafts.

Writing cultural genocide.

Rather than selling out...

Celebrating wonder locally.

A series of interconnected standalone novels.

Listening to the inner critique.

Finding a book's all encompassing name.

Is it a synopsis?

Is dual or multiple narratives for you?

Interviewing the author of Allaigna’s Song: Overture.

Should one write a book two?

Mental health episode about my childhood friend.

Writing for our future self.

Instead of writing for the mass market.

The heart of spirituality or the centre of psychology?

The icebergs of fiction.

The pros and cons of writing for the screen.

What makes a story teller?

Showing who someone is through their choice of decoration.

More consideration of who it is we are writing for.

Love of Publishing.

Interviewing the author of As A God about VCON, fighting, and comic books.

More thought on who one's reader is. What do they want?

Playing around with a magic system.

A mental health episode.

Interview with author Don DeBrant about SFF, writing, and VCON.

Word choice shapes perception.

Riffing off of Spider Robinson's first novel Telempath.

Some worldbuilding and exploring ideas for a WIP.

Confusing one sense for another.

Stanley Kubrick's interest in a French emperor.

An organic way of showing character thoughts.

From cliffhangers to dramatic tension.

Interviewing J. Kernaghan about VCON, SciFi, and fandom.

Interviewing J. Kernaghan about VCON, SciFi, and fandom.

How much can a story influence us?

I figure out what's missing in my WIP.

What motivates a character?

Do stories have to be straight lines?

Starting with dreams, memories, and prologues.

A part that represents the whole.

Showing is essential, but Telling has its uses too.

When is narrator commentary a good thing?

Marketing rewritten art.

Starting with irony versus sarcasm, we dive beneath the text.

Mashing up inspiring characters.

Should we save the trope?

Education or indoctrination?

From evil spirit to divided self.

Can we use the word unsad?

Shock of realization in a story.

Where do we dwell within?

Templates of the subconscious.

The illusion of the outside.

The villain as protagonist.

The tragic flaw of pride or overconfidence.

A character that contradicts and challenges a protagonist.

A Nordic literary device for Fantasy and beyond.

Exaggeration to expose abuse.

Technique from playwriting of interviewing a character.

Taking agency from a protagonist.

The start of a series of episodes on literary devices.

A convergence of inspiration.

Past ills as story fodder.

Before and after a meet with critique partner.

Is there a trick that must not be revealed?

Are we free to make believe?

Aftermath of solo presentation.

A good half an hour, and 15 minutes of so-so, about the women in Doctor Who.

Convention, Captain Marvel, and someone tries to sell me a book.

I arrive, nervous as heck, and explore the convention.

Just right.

The opposite of hard magic.

A highly structured magic system.

Starting with Expressionism and asking how setting can reveal character.

First draft of a literary fiction project.

Problems with Star Trek and pronouns.

Wondering why we want antediluvian aliens to be real.

Preparing to moderate at the local Fan Expo.

Updates that work!

Specifically steampunk, cyberpunk as genesis, and what punk is.

Thoughts after meeting writers at a local pub.

Using pre-existing languages to make new ones.

A social first draft, Fukushima, and racoons.

Rambling through whether to stop writing a violent plot.

Versus the Collective.

Language construction and the limits of comprehension.

Sharing narrative.

Banned books, dictatorships, and subconscious expression.

Inspiration and editing of an elderly character.

Training the mind to write.

Is a creative space a sacred space?