Andrew Hunter Murray and I talked about how he writes novels with Excel, his obsession with finding crazy facts, and why he loves Jane Austen so much.
Timestamps:
0:26 What makes for a good premise?
5:54 How to write Sci-Fi
7:51 Sci-Fi vs. literature
15:41 Why Andrew writes with Excel
18:22 Writing real characters
23:47 How to write a secondary character
30:58 What makes a character feel real?
33:47 Andrew's #1 mantra
38:06 Planning vs. actually writing
40:29 How to find crazy, crazy facts
49:25 Sci-Fi = a window into the present
52:09 Jane Austen
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