ISBW #149 Editing – Paolo Bacigalupi / Tobias Buckell Interview

The Alchemist and The Executioness

Editing and a dual interview!

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• 00:00:07 ISBW #149
• 00:01:18 State of the Mur: new theme song from John Anealio, new podcast at Angry Robot, magazine article & work-for-hire fiction, future plans to work on new book, listening to The Alchemist & The Executioness (an Audible.com exclusive) which was co-authored by this episode’s interviewees!
• 00:04:41 GoTo Meeting Message
• 00:05:15 Editing: using outline method (one outline of how the book is, one of how you want the book to be), the “ripple effect”, being dispassionate
• 00:13:21 Promo: Did This Happen? (a family friendly, bite-sized look at history)
• 00:14:37 Interview: Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Path to publication (novels vs. short stories)
  • Collaboration with Tobias
• 00:14:37 Interview: Tobias Buckell
  • Collaboration, inspiration, division of labor
  • Benefits of video chat
• 00:48:57 Promo: Adventures in SciFi Publishing
• 00:50:10 Feedback: some negative comments for the Bad Cop; risks of breaking a trilogy into 3 time periods & genres; copyright issues for fiction based on the iPhone; Breanne Boland asks about problems with getting known for writing about writing instead of the fiction itself; Smashwords; defeating the lure of new ideas when the old idea haven’t been written yet & “mind mapping” with Xmind; upcoming blog posts about ARCs (advance reader copies) received by ISBW; the joys of listening to ISBW while on a long trip; agent representation (breadth vs. specialization); daring to that the first steps in learning the craft of writing; balancing story planning & learning with a word count goal.

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