Common advice to writers is to write what you know. But in science fiction, fantasy, and horror, things happen that no writer has experienced or ever could experience. So in this week’s episode of the Writing Excuses podcast Dan, Howard, and I talk about writing what you don’t know .
In the most recent Warbreaker annotation , I cover Siri’s requirement to produce an heir, and viewpoint characters interacting for the first time. I also discuss whether Warbreaker is an antiwar novel. Check it out.
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