14.16: Your Setting is a Telegraph

Writing Excuses - A podcast by Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler - Sundays

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Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard
Your setting can quickly tell the reader what kind of a story they’re reading, and in this episode we’ll talk about how we make that happen. Think of it as the “establishing shot” principle from film making, expanded to cover whatever worldbuilding details we choose to reveal first.
Liner Notes: Here are the Schlock Mercenary Book 19 prologues Howard described, complete with the footnotes which make fun of prologues.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Dan Thompson, and mastered by Alex Jackson