Writing Excuses 10.14: How Much of the Beginning Needs to Come First?
Archive Seasons 7-10 Archives - Writing Excuses - A podcast by Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
April is all about beginnings, at least as far as Season 10's syllabus is concerned. So let's start! The cool stuff you plan to put in your story will need other stuff to set it up, and that setting up means that other stuff needs to come first. But how far down does that rabbit hole go? In this episode we talk about how you can determine which elements of your story should come first. We also define (finally!) the term "promises" in the way we use it when we say "promises made to the reader," and then we talk about how to figure out what promises we're making.
