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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Day 38: The Dramatic Question
Description: A good Dramatic Question provides the engine that drives your characters’ actions but also makes them matter. So how do you determine if you’ve got a good one? What is a Dramatic Question and what is it not? And how does a good Dramatic Question complicate over the course of the book to become something larger? To help us answer these questions are writers John McClure and Christine Murphy.A recovering philosopher, John McClure just can't keep Aristotle from coming up in conversation. Really he's sorry about that. His short fiction has appeared in Fatal Flaw Lite...