That's a great point Hannah, I definitely agree. I guess we all have strengths in different areas. Would you be alright with us including the first paragraph of this comment in the next episode?
Cough. Santos. George Cough. Romney whose political career was derailed by a bad puppy story calling out Santos. The motherload of irony. But absolutely agree on baddies. The recent edit of One Magic Summer points out that though my bad guy starts out pure evil I sag giving him his comeuppance. I need a scene where the reader has the satisfaction of seeing him suffer. One of the best bad guy character creations is Alan Rickman's Sheriff if Nottingham in Costner's Robin Hood. "Cancel Christmas." He makes that film work. And The Kurgan in the Highlander. An actor created that character and made the film yet he's still almost unknown. I think most watchers in the back of their mind believe that the Kurgan was real.
See my post above regarding the origin of the phrase.
Yes, I'm very happy for you to include the first paragraph in your next episode.
Alan Rickman was a BRILLIANT sheriff of Nottingham. Allegedly, they reduced his screen time because he was overshadowing Costner's Robin. And allegedly, the "and cancel Christmas" was his own impro that they thought was so funny they kept it in.
If you created Santos as a fictional baddie, he'd seem a bit over the top. And I can't see Rickman's name without thinking of him in Galaxy Quest and giggling.
Thanks, Hannah! I found it. Fun to know.
To be fair, they had to add stuff to The Last Of Us because there wasn’t enough narrative in the game to make it an entire show. The game creator is one of the writers so they expanded on what he had originally written.
Which movies? Just interested and wonder if I hate them too, lol.
This is a tricky issue. It depends on the story. If movie-watchers, or readers, are put-off by the movies or novels because they don't understand why characters are making the choices they are making or perhaps seeing the characters as not believable--a subjective judgement based on people's limited personal knowledge and experience--then the need for more up-front backstory may make sense (despite its being commonly advised against). Since the best advice is to put the backstory in when it's needed for characters' motivations and what's happening to be understood, sometimes that's earlier rather than later. I've found this can often be a challenging balancing act.
Of course they had to add stuff, what is interesting what stuff they add and how they make it work. This episode could have really slowed down the pacing, but coming after a heartstopping 2nd episode it was a brilliant way to not only move the plot forward, but heighten the tension. Masterfully done.
Oh I agree. Are we talking about the third episode? I loved it - that was the strongest one for me. I just watched the most recent one, I think episode five, last night and I had a similar reaction where I really began to care about the characters in a short span of time (trying not to spoil anything here). It is so well written while not being overdone.
I agree with the hour being perhaps too long. An hour's podcast is a lot for the listener to commit to. The "Writing Excuses" podcasts are 15 minutes long. 15 or 20 is a good length for busy people, I think. You don't really want listening to turn into a feeling of procrastination, no matter how good the content may be. When i saw it was nearly an hour long, my time-keeping brain-cells sighed. I only listened because it was you guys.
I do get that some people like short podcasts, I prefer long ones though, and could listen to 1h+ depending on the show. I'll keep in mind the sharper thing, I did cut roughly 20 min from the original convo. I'm sure that after a few episodes we'll find our footing!I agree with the hour being perhaps too long. An hour's podcast is a lot for the listener to commit to. The "Writing Excuses" podcasts are 15 minutes long. 15 or 20 is a good length for busy people, I think. You don't really want listening to turn into a feeling of procrastination, no matter how good the content may be. When i saw it was nearly an hour long, my time-keeping brain-cells sighed. I only listened because it was you guys.
Joe Rogan rants. People who like ranting prefer an immersive experience... Like the fans of a recent POTUS... Succinct presentation of facts is not their jam. They want protracted expressions of emotion.
I was just telling you what a bunch of editors had posted on a facebook group. These are editors who don't know each other and work all over the US and I think the UK. I'm not an editor and I don't use scrivener. It does seem odd to me that a large number of people would be exporting things incorrectly in the exact same way to cause the exact same problems for all these editors unless there are default settings you need to play with? I have no idea. It's funny this came up right after I read the messages. I use Pages and that's apparently the worst culprit so I was invested in that portion. I guess I'll have to pay for Word for mac after all.
I agree this seems odd, and I do not want to turn this into a research project, but do these editors have bestsellers in their credentials? Have they made books into bestsellers, or are they nonentities drawing salaries from publishers while producing nothing anyone reads?
That should work.
The longest podcast episode Stephen King has done, to date, is three hours 30 minutes. His podcast also has several two hours plus episodes and lots of one hour takes. Podcasts are all over the place but one hour plus is pretty common among the people I worked with who did them.
I wash dishes in the sink, but most people have dishwasher machines these days, don't they?
Don't get carried away. I love podcasts but everybody has one. I don't say this to dampen anybody's spirits by any means but rather to temper expectations. Monetizing a podcast isn't easy beans. Off the top of my head I know four people who have one and that's just a straight up podcast - if you count streaming via youtube as a podcast it's even more.
I would enjoy a discussion on those tools!
) but we also want to keep them shorter cos it's a lot of work to do longer episodes. The effort of it all is something you might want to keep in mind.
Hi Peyton,
