In this episode of Storyline Sessions, award-winning sci-fi and fantasy author Sam Paisley share his writing journey, talks about how psychology influences his work, dives into symbolism of the magic system in his debut novel and many more exciting topics.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Sam’s website – https:\/\/elementsoftime.ca\/<\/a> <\/p>\n Sam’s Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elementsoftimebook\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/storyline.sessions\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/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<\/p>\n Timestamps:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n 00:00 – Start<\/p>\n 00:47 – Conversation start<\/p>\n 01:04 – Awards<\/p>\n 02:34 – Nine years of writing his debut novel<\/p>\n 05:02 – Long books – editing and pace<\/p>\n 08:14 – Importance of giving your story enough space<\/p>\n 09:39 – Writing multiple POVs<\/p>\n 14:48 – Film and TV influences<\/p>\n 16:34 – Creating his magic system<\/p>\n 20:05 – First draft vs final version<\/p>\n 22:06 – Plotting process<\/p>\n 24:22 – Knowing when a scene\/chapter\/story is over<\/p>\n 25:35 – Getting good feedback and improving<\/p>\n 31:10 – Experience with the writing community<\/p>\n 35:48 – Book signing in Sam’s high school and writing for young people<\/p>\n 39:53 – Benefits of reading and understanding psychology<\/p>\n 44:16 – Working on other projects and 2024 goals<\/p>\n 46:57 – Reading vs listening to books<\/p>\n 47:34 – Cover art process<\/p>\n 51:34 – The Elements of Time symbolism<\/p>\n 56:48 – Creating merch<\/p>\n 58:32 – Signed copies and bookmarks<\/p>\n 1:00:17 – The most important moments of 2023<\/p>\n 1:01:55 – Outro<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In this episode of Storyline Sessions, award-winning sci-fi and fantasy author Sam Paisley share his writing journey, talks about how psychology influences his work, dives into symbolism of the magic system in his debut novel and many more exciting topics. Sam’s website – https:\/\/elementsoftime.ca\/ Sam’s Instagram – https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/elementsoftimebook\/ Follow Storyline Sessions Podcast on Instagram –…<\/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-389046","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\/389046","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=389046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389046\/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=389046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcast.rs\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}