Writing Excuses 9.17: Microcasting

Eric James Stone joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard to answer questions from our listeners. Here are the questions: * Should you submit your prologue along with the first chapters? * What do you do when you've got some professional sales under your belt, but can't seem to get more? * How do you manage scene/sequel format in a multi-POV novel? * Is passive voice really that bad? How do you tell if you're using it too much? * What is the threshold for deus ex machina? * How do you maximize the emotional impact of a character death? * If you're a discovery writer, how do you go about becoming an outliner? * When someone asks what you do for a living, how do you answer them? * How do you get out of the beat-by-beat, this-then-that blocking of action? Here is the Grammar Girl episode we mentioned.