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more about #seanwilliams more comments → sschmitt2276: This is my first comment on this site but I've been coming here for a while now. This blog relates to something I've been thinking a lot about lately ... more » howardhwen001: frankly i'm a bit baffled -- don't any of these storytellers put together an outline before writing? more » MS-18E Shadoblak: There was a part in a game called Baten Kaitos where the boring angsty main character and his party kept getting cut off because one of them was worki... more » cletar: Well, if you are George Lucas, you say "screw it," pretend the character doesn't suck, and keep going. more » blackoak: The question and answers are illuminating, but I'd also be interested in the thought processes when an author or creator is unexpectedly forced to eli... more » SJ_Edwards: @charliejane: Just out of curiosity, how many authors were asked to give an answer to this question (no names required), how many responded at all, ho... more » gods-n-clods: Characters are supposed to be facets of the author's consciousness. So if a character needs a serious kickstart... go get your freak on? An eighth of ... more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: "I have to go now. My planet needs me." more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Kill him/her off and take the story in a radical new direction.... more » alexntaylor: Too bad no one sent this to the True Blood writers before the Maryann plotline started. more » gorehound: funny.you guys keep putting up cover art from old pulps and i own all of the pulps you took images of.this one you showed is from 1949 or 50 and it is... more » Grey_Area: Piffle. I am already retroactively featured in a science fiction book. more » DarthAthema: Oh right, and I think my user name speaks for itself on the subject of the post. more » braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.: All of you should go home, because the only person whose named would even make sense is mine: Darth Braak. HE LIVES! more » OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear: Sith lords come and go (and in the EU, come and go and come and go again), but I want something bigger. Rename the Sarlacc after me and I think we hav... more » -
#freeadvice
One Of Your Crucial Characters Isn't Working. What Do You Do?
Your awesome novel is firing on all thrusters... except one. A major character, who's important to the story, isn't clicking. She's dull, or he doesn't play well with others. We asked some great authors what to do about this quandary. More » -
#starwars
Introducing Darth "Your Name Here"
Authors Sean Williams and Karen Miller are auctioning off a "walk-on role" in their next Star Wars novels, with the proceeds to benefit Australian brushfires victims. You could be enshrined in Expanded-Universe continuity! [Karen Miller] -
#quoteoftheday
Posthuman Stories Are Creation Myths Turned Upside Down
Sean Williams, whose Mieville-esque epic fantasy The Crooked Letter combines all the world's religions into one Darwinian package (and is available as a free download) explains how religious creation myths mirror the posthuman narrative. More »
