14.01: Worldbuilding Begins! Up Front, or On the Fly?
Writing Excuses
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How to Write a Joke
If I don't have the fact exactly right, the punchline doesn't work. Anything I write now needs to either be in brackets, or it needs to be a strip that allows it to continue to be nebulous. In this case, I had to email Mike Cole and ask if an executive officer, the joke was the captain goes down with the ship, the executive officer musters the dead. And Mike's response was, that is something that an exo would say, I've never heard it before. That is exactly the ground I want to be on.
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