This was recorded at the “Out of Excuses Retreat,” and the questions came from our attendees. Here are the questions! (You’ll have to listen for the answers.)
- How have your opinions on self-publishing changed in the last few years?
- What did you find difficult early in your career? How did you address this?
- What do you now find difficult? How do you address it?
- Do you put Easter Eggs in your work that only your friends recognize?
- How much do questions/comments from readers influence you?
And the question we did NOT answer, but it’s a great one for speculating…
- Where would Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard be, career-wise, if their paths had not crossed?
via Writing Excuses 8.38:Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #2 » Writing Excuses.
Mary would have been handed the One Ring, and become a Queen.
Not dark, but beautiful and terrible as the morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All would love her and despair!
Amirite?
Guilty.
When I was writing things for our sketch group, I would put inside jokes in there from time to time. Of course, the cast members laughed when those came up during table reads. Sometimes those were kept. Sometimes those were thrown away before they made it onto the stage. And at work, when I was making demos for computer programs, I often use co-workers names and name buildings or whatnot after them. It’s fun.
Hi. So you were talking about early career and writing stories reliably well. Aside from the overall hard work of re-learning to write, was there an epiphany that helped your breakthrough?
The MICE quotient, which we talk about in a couple of episodes, really helped me understand that structure and plot were not the same things as events.
Thank you!! Heading over to re-listen to those episodes.