DRS Episode 446 – Butcher on Writing Part 1
Paul and Terry discuss Jim Butcher’s “On Writing” posts.
Links:
- Butcher on Writing
- The Dead Robots’ Society Patreon
- Terry’s new novel “Behind Enemy Lines“
- Terry’s Author Page
- Paul’s Store
- Pauls’ new novel “Derelict: Marines”
When you guys are talking about having the character’s voice come through the narrator, there actually is a term for that. It’s called Free Indirect Discourse. I learned about it in college when we read Jane Austen. And they said majoring in English Lit was useless. Here’s a link to the wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_indirect_speech