The One-Drink Book Club is an informal, (almost) weekly series in which fellow author Emma Lee Jayne joins me and our other creative friends to talk about the life, business, and art of writing and making books … for the duration of one Friday-afternoon drink.
Here’s what we talked about in this episode:
When is a story or a story world complete? Robert asked about Firefly, Stargate, and my Vampire Maurice side series, but we expanded it into a larger discussion of how and when to create more stories in an existing world … and when creating those additional stories can actually be disruptive in a Schrödinger sort of way.
Bill mentioned “A Quiet Place But with Farts.” Which I think is autobiographical.
We discussed genre stories as a way to tell real human stories, because who would want to watch the humans stories without extra cool stuff going on?
I told a way-back story about humor as a trojan horse.
In closing, we talked about storytellers saving their suspension of disbelief for when it truly matters in order to fully satisfy and not annoy readers: Emma’s example of a “library owner” reference totally disrupting a story that was otherwise full of all sorts of unbelievable stuff. (You have to get most things right if you want us to believe the single unbelievable thing that’s the centerpiece of the story!)
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