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Bonus Ep. 3, Part 2: The Author-Reader Contract

Mar 2, 2022
48:50
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 5min
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2
A Recommended Anonymous Will Make Anybody Smile
04:39 • 2min
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3
What Is at Risk in a Chapter One Action Sequence?
06:49 • 4min
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4
Hitcheck as Going to the Galaxy
10:37 • 5min
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5
The Beginning of a Fantasy Novel
15:44 • 3min
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6
Is There a Supernatural Thing on TV?
18:35 • 5min
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Is There a Gold Eating Giant?
23:26 • 4min
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8
Changing Chapter Titles Can Really Be Earned
27:23 • 2min
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9
Do Not Copy Without Committee Form and a Number?
29:24 • 3min
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10
The Copy Editor
32:35 • 2min
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11
Do Less, It's for Suffering
34:33 • 2min
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12
How to Write a First Person Chapter
36:13 • 3min
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The Only Real Solid Author Read Our Contract Is the Last Word
39:31 • 5min
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Book Review - Harriet's Spies Again
44:54 • 4min
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This is the final half of a conversation between Ada Palmer and Jo Walton, about how an author can craft the early part of a novel to set up the reader's expectations about what kind of a book to expect. This was a two-hour conversation, so our previous episode had the first hour, and this episode has the second hour.

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