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Microcasting again! The questions we fielded from the Twitterverse include:
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\n\t* How do you hold the whole story in your head when it's a thousand pages long?
\n\t* What steps do you use when creating a character?
\n\t* As an outliner, when do you start putting in the details?
\n\t* How do you patch plot holes?
\n\t* How do you come up with names?
\n\t* Is there one writing skill you'd like to get better at?
\n\t* Writing groups: what do you look for?
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\nAudiobook Pick-of-the-Week: Hard Magic, by Larry Correia, narrated by Bronson Pinchot
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\nAs Promised, Here is a Link: The Everchanging Book of Names
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\nSpeaking of the Twitterverse: The Writing Excuses team is BrandSanderson, MaryRobinette, HowardTayler, JohnCleaver (Dan), and MonkeySloth (Producer Jordo).
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\nWriting Prompt: Someone has to save the world from an intercontinental ballistic hairball, but their keyboard layout has been changed.
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