In this week’s new Writing Excuses episode, Q&A on Viewpoint, Brandon, Piper, Dan, and Howard answer your questions about viewpoint. Here they are!

• Do you have tips and tricks for making 3rd-person omniscient compelling?
• How do you make 3rd-person limited compelling?
• Is it normal to need several drafts to nail down a character’s voice?
• What’s the ( Read more... )

Karen here, one of Brandon's assistants. I'm usually in charge of continuity: making sure that little details, like the color of a minor character's eyes or the shape of each kind of spren, are consistant from one book to the next. I also keep a master timeline so that each viewpoint character lives the same number of days between joint scenes ( Read more... )