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 Ensembles?
23:06 Protagonists Worth Rooting For
32:06 Managing Reader Bandwidth, and Understanding What You're Asking
42:17 The Evolution of the Mission
50:04 Characters as Investment Opportunities
59:19 Conclusions
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