{"id":2635,"date":"2016-07-07T00:31:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/I-consider-myself-an-intermediate-level-writer-but-Im-still-getting-a-lot-out-of-these-practical-clear-lectures"},"modified":"2016-07-07T00:31:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T00:31:58","slug":"i-consider-myself-an-intermediate-level-writer-but-im-still-getting-a-lot-out-of-these-practical-clear-lectures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/07\/07\/i-consider-myself-an-intermediate-level-writer-but-im-still-getting-a-lot-out-of-these-practical-clear-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"I consider myself an intermediate-level writer, but I&#8217;m still getting a lot out of these practical, clear lectures."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>I consider myself an intermediate-level writer, but I&#8217;m still getting a lot out of these practical, clear lectures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Brandon Sanderson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Writing Lecture + Updates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third installment of the 2016 Sanderson Lectures, \u201cThe Illusionist Writer,\u201d is now live! If you missed last week\u2019s episode, \u201cCook vs. Chef,\u201d you can catch up on all the videos here. Enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this week\u2019s new Writing Excuses episode, The Elemental Thriller, we discuss the difference between the drivers in thrillers, horror stories, and mysteries, and use the elemental genre tools to assist in the differentiation. We also cover the tools we use to develop and maintain the tension that is so critical in a thriller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Update on the Mistborn: House War board game Kickstarter campaign: It\u2019s now at 530% funded, and is working on the 12th stretch goal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, in Tor.com\u2019s continuing reread posts for Words of Radiance, Shallan evacuated the armies while Kaladin battled. This week, in Chapter 87, in the aftermath, they face rearrangement of the world as they knew it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1ovtiazIzJA&amp;list=PLH3mK1NZn9QqOSj3ObrP3xL8tEJQ12-vL&amp;index=3\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1ovtiazIzJA&amp;list=PLH3mK1NZn9QqOSj3ObrP3xL8tEJQ12-vL&amp;index=3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1ovtiazIzJA&amp;list=PLH3mK1NZn9QqOSj3ObrP3xL8tEJQ12-vL&amp;index=3<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I consider myself an intermediate-level writer, but I&#8217;m still getting a lot out of these practical, clear lectures.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/07\/07\/i-consider-myself-an-intermediate-level-writer-but-im-still-getting-a-lot-out-of-these-practical-clear-lectures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}