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Episode 228: Elwin Cotman

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Bite into a burrito with writer Elwin Cotman as we discuss why forcing science fictional elements into non-science fictional stories can weaken them, the interdimensional cross-genre story cycle he hopes to write someday about a wrestling family, the way the novella is his natural length, why he loves Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age stories, how to create compelling metaphors and similes, the way rereading Tama Janowitz's Slaves of New York helped him with the connective tissue of his own sentences, the reason Mary Gaitskill is the world's greatest living writer, and much more.

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Bite into a burrito with writer Elwin Cotman as we discuss why forcing science fictional elements into non-science fictional stories can weaken them, the interdimensional cross-genre story cycle he hopes to write someday about a wrestling family, the way the novella is his natural length, why he loves Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age stories, how to create compelling metaphors and similes, the way rereading Tama Janowitz's Slaves of New York helped him with the connective tissue of his own sentences, the reason Mary Gaitskill is the world's greatest living writer, and much more.

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