In this episode of Storyline Sessions, Nebula award-nominated author R.R. Virdi talks about his upcoming book The Doors of Midnight, a sequel to The First Binding, using myths and legends as inspiration, his experience with trad publishing and many more interesting topics.<\/p>\n
Follow R.R. Virdi on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rrvirdi\/<\/a><\/p>\n Get Grave Tidings for free – https:\/\/www.subscribepage.com\/graveti<\/a>…<\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n Watch Storyline Sessions on YouTube – https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@StorylineSessions<\/a><\/p>\n Riverside.fm<\/a> affiliate link (I receive a recurring commission with no additional cost to you): https:\/\/www.riverside.fm\/?via=marko<\/a><\/p>\n Timestamps:<\/p>\n 00:00 – Start<\/p>\n 00:45 – Conversation start<\/p>\n 00:55 – Reactions to The First Binding<\/p>\n 03:40 – Working on the sequel<\/p>\n 04:52 – Using mythology in writing – South Asia, Silk Road and beyond<\/p>\n 12:00 – Meta layer – storytelling in storytelling<\/p>\n 14:36 – Clues and breadcrumbs – foreshadowing<\/p>\n 16:52 – POVs<\/p>\n 18:35 – Mixing multiple timelines<\/p>\n 22:20 – Writing with ADHD<\/p>\n 22:47 – Surprising yourself<\/p>\n 24:25 – Urban fantasy vs epic fantasy – different influences<\/p>\n 27:46 – Writing to market and different genres<\/p>\n 32:41 – Lengthy books and „purple prose“ vs editors<\/p>\n 41:09 – Using appendix and how books change on re-reads<\/p>\n 43:24 – Creating maps<\/p>\n 45:34 – Cover art and different book editions<\/p>\n 47:56 – Trad publishing vs indie<\/p>\n 51:20 – Getting paid as an artist<\/p>\n 57:46 – Advice for younger\/starting writers<\/p>\n 01:02:00 – Teasing The Doors of Midnight<\/p>\n 01:03:32 – Outro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, Nebula award-nominated author R.R. Virdi talks about his upcoming book The Doors of Midnight, a sequel to The First Binding, using myths and legends as inspiration, his experience with trad publishing and many more interesting topics. Follow R.R. Virdi on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rrvirdi\/ Get Grave Tidings for free –…<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[673],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-storyline-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}