Writing About Dragons and Shit

We’ve talked about how to make villains, but what about who is going to stand in their way? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about the ways they go about making heroes for their stories. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://twitter.com/BDaveWalters T...

Talking about writing is so much fun! So Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis decided to do just that. Sit down, and just talk about writing. Enjoy! Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://twitter.com/BDaveWalters Treavor Bettis (Difficulty Class, Champions of Lore) https...

Getting published in any way is more than just writing something and hitting a “Publish Button”. But what does the business side look like? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about the business of publishing and screen writing. There is also a fair amount of Peppa Pig talk... Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans...

We all want our characters to be happy - and sometimes that means they want a relationship! But how do you make convincing chemistry between two characters? This week special guest Rhiannon Held joins Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis to talk about character chemistry. Special Guest: Rhiannon Held (Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/RhiannonHeld Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimsto...

It’s just as important for a writer to read as it is to write. But how do you get the most out of reading as a writer? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about what they think about and look for when reading novels. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https:/...

We’ve thrown around “series potential” a lot, but what does that mean? And what do you even do when you actually sit down to write a sequel to your book? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about what they do with sequels and having a book with series potential. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters...

Most genre books have one thing in common - there’s a lot of dialogue. But what makes that dialogue good? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about what they do when it’s time for their characters to start talking. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://t...

Not every book needs a physical villain - but for those that do how do we go about making them? Can you just drop a mustache twirling dude in any story? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about the ways they go about making villains. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dic...

How do you know you have a good ending? And once you have one you gotta move onto your 2nd Draft! What do you do then?! (Seriously, Treavor needs to know!) This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about Endings, 2nd Drafts, and Show Don’t Tell. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Blac...

What do writers mean when they say “my writing process”? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about what writing process is and how they went about finding their own way of writing. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://twitter.com/BDaveWalters Treavor Be...

We’ve talked about Act Structure, but what gets you from one plot point to the other? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about pacing and tension and how they work - sometimes together - to move a story along. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://twitt...

There are a lot of talks about Breaking In to the industry, and honestly there is no right answer. This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about their experiences with the industry - and totally don’t at all try to do a second topic about Process. Of course they don’t, that’s next week’s topic... Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter...

For a thousand generations the - all right that’s enough of that; this week we are talking about info dumps! B. Dave Walters, Erin M. Evans, and Treavor Bettis talk about all the ways they go about diving out information about their worlds in their stories. And there’s totally not at all a second secret topic that should totally be in the title... Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon...

Structure is an important part of storytelling no matter how you do it. This week B. Dave Walters, Erin M. Evans, and Treavor Bettis talk about different types of structure - from Three Act to Five Act to the Hero’s Journey. B. Dave Walters on Structure: https://t.co/fznsWekTbf?amp=1 Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Dark...

Wrapping up our small block of World Building episodes, Treavor has a new project and needs help focusing on what to build. Erin M. Evans and B. Dave Walters answer his questions about what is and isn’t important to work on at this early stage and how to best go about building his world. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A...

We continue this block of world building episodes with THE Ed Greenwood. He joins Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis to talk about ways of building governments and what role they play in the process of world building. Special Guest: Ed Greewood (The Elminster Series, The Saga of Shadowdale) https://twitter.com/TheEdVerse Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers)...

World Building is a HUGE part of fantasy writing and who better to talk to about than Patrick Rothfuss himself. He joins Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis to talk about how they go about world building and to also give Treavor a new nickname. Be sure to check out Worldbuilders.org June 21st - 28th for #GeeksDoingGood and help support an awesome cause! Special Guest: Patrick Rothfu...

Books can deal with trauma in many ways. A character could have a trauma, the plot could heavily deal with one, or it could be about processing one. This week Dr. Janina Scarlet joins Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis to talk about the ways trauma can be done in a story. Special Guest: Dr. Janina Scarlet (Super-Women, Superhero Therapy) https://twitter.com/ ShadowQuill Starring: E...

Do I write in First Person? Do you write in Second Person? Do they write in Third?! Picking a point of view can be a tough decision and this week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walter, and Treavor Bettis talk about how they pick which POV to tell a story. Oh, and they also tangent into Symbolism at one point. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Da...

Where do characters come from? Do they just pop in out of the abyss? Or do you have to go find them? This week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about they way they go about finding characters and the ways they fit into their stories. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Societ...

Inspiration can come from any number of places and this week Erin M. Evans, B. Dave Walters, and Treavor Bettis talk about some of the places they find inspiration. As well as several other tangents they find along the way... Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://twitter.com/BDaveWal...

Now that the fun episodes are out of the way - let's get into everyone's favorite topic: Writer's Block. This week Erin, B. Dave, and Treavor talk about their experiences with writer's block and what they have done to combat it.  Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://...

Your first draft is probably going to suck - as much as that sucks to say. For our first episode we talk about all the joys and annoyances of first drafts and the ways that we tackle them. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://twitter.com/BDaveWalters Treavor Bettis (Difficulty Class...

What are arcs and why are they important? Well, first off - they are very important, but we’ll get to that. This week we talk about the ways we go about finding a character’s arc and how they might change while we are writing them. Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twitter.com/erinmevans B. Dave Walters (A Darkened Wish, Black Dice Society) https://twitter.com/BD...

What are arcs and why are they important? Well, first off - they are very important, but we’ll get to that. This week we talk about the ways we go about finding a character’s arc and how they might change while we are writing them. Special Guest: Jim Zub (Evil at Baldur’s Gate, Conan the Barbarian) https://twitter.com/jimzub Starring: Erin M Evans (Brimstone Angels, Dungeon Scrawlers) https://twit...