Inking Neon: Light Up Your Stories
Inking Neon blends readings, author interviews, and book recs with the hard-earned insight of two writers who’ve spent decades teaching and creating. It’s where the craft of writing gets electrified and ideas shine brighter. If you’re chasing inspiration, this is your sign in lights.
Episodes
Swashbuckling adventure author Nicholas Atwater joins us to share hard-earned insights learned from writing his book, Echoes of the Imperium. We discuss how to make your protagonist interesting in more than one way, and also how most great things come from spite. Well… most of our great things. You be the judge?
00:00 Introductions
02:32 Reading from Echoes of the Imperium, Chapter 1
09:02 Why a Goblin Captain?
15:54 How to Write Big ...
Stuart says you’ve got to plot your stories. Cullen isn’t so sure! Maybe you can just fly by the seat of your pants? We lay out our arguments in the (timeless?) Pants vs Plot debate. Also featured: Joseph Cambell was a moron; is Save the Cat worthless?; the creativity of David Lynch; and examples of stirring scenes from Dune Part II and The Fellowship of the Ring.
00:00 The Plotter vs. Pantser Debate
02:15 The Plotter Opening Stateme...
Stuart J. Tanner and Cullen McHael trade examples of compelling antagonists in speculative fiction from Sci-Fi to Fantasy, deconstruct the role of the antagonist, and offer advice from hard-earned lessons about how and when to consider your antagonist in your writing process. Cullen lists nine kinds of antagonist, which one are you?
0:00 Intro
5:28 The Role of the Antagonist
8:40 Antagonist Example: The Joker in the Dark Knight
15:41...
Stuart J. Tanner and Cullen McHael share hard-earned lessons about getting your fight scenes right.0:00 Intro1:34 What are Fight Scenes For?10:00 The Fun Element11:00 Problem Solving14:39 Scaffolding, Worldbuilding, and Playing With Rules24:22 The Great Challenge: Clarity28:25 Examples of Compelling Fight Scenes32:52 4 Things a Fight Scene Can Do34:56 Establishing Stakes: Costs, Risks, and Invincibility40:17 Reading: Altered Carbon...
On this first episode of Inking Neon, journalist, author, and teacher Stuart J. Tanner is sent to Baghdad at the height of the Iraq occupation and discovers that and other strange worlds. We discuss what makes for compelling characters, the process of investigation in writing, and read from Stuart's book Devas: Book 1 of the Absolute series, in which a serial murder case spirals out of control when a detective discovers an alie...
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