Podd: Writing Excuses

20.11: Kit Lit. Q&A Aboard the WX Cruise, with Mark Oshiro, Kate McKean, and Sandra Tayler

16 mars | 22 min

20.10: Interview with Chuck Tingle: Breaking the Rules

9 mars | 34 min

20.09: The Reaction of Who?!

2 mars | 20 min

20.08: Character Stakes and Fears

23 februari | 23 min

20.07: Motivation and Goals

16 februari | 21 min

20.06: History and Community

9 februari | 26 min

20.05: The Lens of Who

2 februari | 25 min

20.04: Puppetry as a Writing Metaphor

26 januari | 33 min

20.03: Polishing Your Writing Lens

19 januari | 22 min

20.02: Q&A Aboard the Writing Excuses Cruise, with Mark Oshiro and Kate McKean

12 januari | 25 min

20.01: Welcome to 2025!

5 januari | 23 min

19.52: End of Year Reflections: Navigating Speedbumps

29 december 2024 | 30 min

19.51: And That Was That

22 december 2024 | 24 min

19.50.5: An Interview with DIY MFA Founder Gabriela Pereira (BONUS EPISODE)

18 december 2024 | 31 min

19.50: All Systems Go

15 december 2024 | 21 min

19.49: Getting to Know You

8 december 2024 | 22 min

19.48: Beginning With A Thrill

1 december 2024 | 21 min

19.47.5: Interview with Andrew Buckley of the StoryCentric podcast (BONUS EPISODE)

27 november 2024 | 32 min

19.47: Final Thoughts on Our Close Reading Series

24 november 2024 | 26 min

19.46: An Interview on Structure with N.K. Jemisin

17 november 2024 | 51 min

19.45: A Close Reading on Structure: Tying It All Together

10 november 2024 | 22 min

19.44: A Close Reading on Structure: Tradition and Innovation

3 november 2024 | 26 min

19.43: A Close Reading on Structure: Parallelism and Inversion

27 oktober 2024 | 23 min

19.42: A Close Reading on Structure: Whose Perspective is it Anyways?

20 oktober 2024 | 22 min

19.41: A Close Reading on Structure: An Overview and Why Fifth Season

13 oktober 2024 | 22 min

19.40: An Interview on Tension with P. Djèlí Clark

6 oktober 2024 | 46 min

19.39: A Close Reading on Tension: Tying It All Together

29 september 2024 | 23 min

19.38: A Close Reading on Tension: Anticipation and Subversion

22 september 2024 | 20 min

19.37: A Close Reading on Tension: Movement and Resolution

15 september 2024 | 21 min

19.36: A Close Reading on Tension: Narrative vs. Contextual

8 september 2024 | 27 min

19.35: A Close Reading on Tension: An Overview and Why Ring Shout

1 september 2024 | 19 min

19.34: Grants and Fellowships

25 augusti 2024 | 29 min

19.33: Workshops and Retreats

18 augusti 2024 | 30 min

19.32: An Interview on Character with CL Clark

11 augusti 2024 | 33 min

19.31: A Close Reading on Character: Tying it All Together

4 augusti 2024 | 24 min

19.30: A Close Reading on Character: Agency vs. Choices

28 juli 2024 | 23 min

19.29: A Close Reading on Character: Barriers vs. Stakes

21 juli 2024 | 23 min

19.28: A Close Reading on Character: Internal vs External Identity

14 juli 2024 | 24 min

19.27: A Close Reading on Character: An Overview and Why We Chose C.L. Clark's Stories

7 juli 2024 | 24 min

19.26: Bringing Falconry into Writing

30 juni 2024 | 28 min

19.25: From the Classroom to the Page

23 juni 2024 | 26 min

19.24: An Interview on Worldbuilding with Arkady Martine

16 juni 2024 | 36 min

19.23: Tying It All Together (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)

9 juni 2024 | 22 min

19.22: Technology and Identity (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)

2 juni 2024 | 26 min

19.21: Language as a Tool (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)

26 maj 2024 | 28 min

19.20: How to Make Worlds Feel Big Without Overwhelming the Reader (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: Focusing on Scale)

19 maj 2024 | 28 min

19.19: A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: An Overview and why A Memory Called Empire

12 maj 2024 | 29 min

19.18: How to Build Fictional Economies

5 maj 2024 | 27 min

19.17: Novellas- the Goldilocks of Publishing

28 april 2024 | 28 min

19.16: An Interview with Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

21 april 2024 | 47 min

19.15: A Close Reading on Voice: Tying It All Together

14 april 2024 | 25 min

19.14: A Close Reading on Voice- Epistolary Storytelling Through Voice

7 april 2024 | 26 min

19.13: A Close Reading on Voice: Blue's Perspective - Confidence and Vulnerability

31 mars 2024 | 24 min

19.12: A Close Reading on Voice - Red's Perspective - Muscular Prose

24 mars 2024 | 27 min

19.11: A Close Reading on Voice- An Overview, and Why Time War

17 mars 2024 | 24 min

19.10: Introducing Our Close Readings Series

10 mars 2024 | 24 min

19.09: LIVE Recording - Rituals, Rites, and Traditions

3 mars 2024 | 17 min

19.08: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Working with an Editor

25 februari 2024 | 29 min

19.07: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Intention

18 februari 2024 | 25 min

19.06: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Length

11 februari 2024 | 27 min

19.05: LIVE Recording - Revisions with Mahtab Narsimhan

4 februari 2024 | 20 min

19.04: LIVE Recording - Pacing with Guest Fonda Lee

28 januari 2024 | 19 min

19.03: Behind The Scenes with our Producer and Recording Engineer

21 januari 2024 | 23 min

19.02: Q&A Episode with WX Core Cast

14 januari 2024 | 22 min

19.01: Interview with Abraham Verghese

7 januari 2024 | 28 min

18.53: Funding the Writing Life

31 december 2023 | 26 min

18.52: Writing Inside The Box

24 december 2023 | 23 min

18.51: So You Wanna Play With Format?

17 december 2023 | 25 min

18.50: The Unreliable Narrator

10 december 2023 | 27 min

18.49: Giving Your Story A Voice

3 december 2023 | 24 min

18.48: NaNoWriMo Week 5 - Writing Endings

26 november 2023 | 23 min

18.47: NaNoWriMo Week 4 - Climaxes, or OH MY GOD NO

19 november 2023 | 22 min

18.46: NaNoWriMo Week 3 - Raising the Stakes

12 november 2023 | 21 min

18.45: NaNoWriMo Week 2 - Inciting Incident

5 november 2023 | 22 min

18.44: NaNoWriMo Week 1- Getting Started

29 oktober 2023 | 19 min

18.43: Worldbuilding in Miniature

22 oktober 2023 | 24 min

18.42: Creating Magic Outside of a System

15 oktober 2023 | 28 min

18.41: Deep Dive: Erin's Short Fiction Extravaganza

8 oktober 2023 | 25 min

18.40: How To Make Money From Your Hobby (with special guest Sandra Tayler!)

1 oktober 2023 | 33 min

18.39: How To Write An Ending

24 september 2023 | 29 min

18.38: How Do You Write A Series With Books That Stand Alone?

17 september 2023 | 25 min

18.37: Mandatory Failure

10 september 2023 | 27 min

18.36: The Soggy Middle Pays the Rent (or, "Stand Alone With Series Potential")

3 september 2023 | 27 min

18.35: How to Organize Your Writing, or Managing the Mega-Arc

27 augusti 2023 | 23 min

18.34: Seventeen Years of Foreshadowing

20 augusti 2023 | 24 min

18.33.5: State Of The Podcast

16 augusti 2023 | 18 min

18.33: Deep Dive: The Schlock Mercenary Finale

13 augusti 2023 | 28 min

18.32: The Kirsten Vangsness Expansion Pack

6 augusti 2023 | 31 min

18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes

30 juli 2023 | 24 min

18.30: Planting Supernatural Seeds

23 juli 2023 | 23 min

18.29: Collaboration And Partnership

16 juli 2023 | 31 min

18.28: Writing Conversational Dialogue

9 juli 2023 | 25 min

18.27: Framing Stories

2 juli 2023 | 28 min

18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures, & More

25 juni 2023 | 27 min

18.25: To Narrator or Not to Narrator

18 juni 2023 | 26 min

18.24: “Dark One: Forgotten” Deep Dive

11 juni 2023 | 30 min

18.23: Our Advice on Giving Advice

4 juni 2023 | 32 min

18.22: On Mentorship: Sending the Elevator Back Down

28 maj 2023 | 32 min

18.21: The Empathy Gap: How to Understand What Your Publisher is Telling You

21 maj 2023 | 29 min

18.20: So You Want To Work In Publishing?

14 maj 2023 | 28 min

18.19: What is Publishing For, Anyway?

7 maj 2023 | 27 min

18.18: Launching an Author Newsletter

30 april 2023 | 24 min

18.17: Build Your Author Brand, 2023 Edition

23 april 2023 | 27 min

18.16: Deep Dive: Publishing is Hard, by DongWon Song

16 april 2023 | 23 min

18.15: Building a Mystery, Now With More Tools

9 april 2023 | 22 min

18.14: Heavy Lifting with Microtension

2 april 2023 | 17 min

18.13: Finding the Core Conflict

26 mars 2023 | 20 min

18.12: The Long Shadow of Unanswered Questions

19 mars 2023 | 21 min

18.11: Turning Up the Contrast With Juxtaposition

12 mars 2023 | 21 min

18.10: Anticipation is More Than Just Making Us Wait

5 mars 2023 | 18 min

18.09: Unpacking the Tension

26 februari 2023 | 21 min

18.08: Building a Mystery

19 februari 2023 | 23 min

18.07: Deep Dive into THE SPARE MAN

12 februari 2023 | 32 min

18.06: An Interview With Howard Tayler

5 februari 2023 | 20 min

18.05: An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal

29 januari 2023 | 22 min

18.04: An Interview With Dan Wells

22 januari 2023 | 22 min

18.03: An Interview With Erin Roberts

15 januari 2023 | 18 min

18.02: An Interview with DongWon Song

8 januari 2023 | 24 min

18.01: Twenty Twenty-Three, By Way of Introduction

1 januari 2023 | 24 min

17.52: The WXR 2022 Q&A

25 december 2022 | 30 min

17.51: Feel The Burn

18 december 2022 | 19 min

17.50: Consistency, Inconsistency, and the Crushing Weight of Expectations

11 december 2022 | 22 min

17.49: Bodies Are Magical

4 december 2022 | 20 min

17.48: Bodies, Why? (Part III)

27 november 2022 | 26 min

17.47: The Linguistics of Disability

20 november 2022 | 20 min

17.46: Monstrous Awakening

13 november 2022 | 19 min

17.45: Bodies, Tech, and Character

6 november 2022 | 21 min

17.44: Bodies, Why? (Part II: Working Through Disability)

30 oktober 2022 | 27 min

17.43: Bodies. Why? (Depicting Disability)

23 oktober 2022 | 22 min

17.42: Eight Embodied Episodes About Disability

16 oktober 2022 | 23 min

17.41: Picture Books are Books Too, with Special Guest Seth Fishman

9 oktober 2022 | 19 min

17.40: Questions & Answers About Structure, with Special Guest Peng Shepherd

2 oktober 2022 | 24 min

17.39: Writing Bodies and Intimacy, with K.M. Szpara

25 september 2022 | 19 min

17.38: Oh No I Lost The Thread

18 september 2022 | 19 min

17.37: Science and Fiction—It’s Not Just Science Fiction

11 september 2022 | 19 min

17.36: Space for Everyone

4 september 2022 | 20 min

17.35: Nuances of Dialog

28 augusti 2022 | 20 min

17.34: Developing Subtext

21 augusti 2022 | 19 min

17.33: Building Tension

14 augusti 2022 | 19 min

17.32: Everything is About Conflict

7 augusti 2022 | 18 min

17.31: Everyone Has an Agenda

31 juli 2022 | 20 min

17.30: Know Your Characters

24 juli 2022 | 20 min

17.29: The Job of Dialogue

17 juli 2022 | 20 min

17.28: Keys to Writing Dialog

10 juli 2022 | 18 min

17.27: Ensembles Behind the Scenes

3 juli 2022 | 20 min

17.26: Hanging Separately

26 juni 2022 | 19 min

17.25: Archetypes, Ensembles, and Expectations

19 juni 2022 | 20 min

17.24: Ensembles and Genre

12 juni 2022 | 17 min

17.23: Are We Stronger Together?

5 juni 2022 | 21 min

17.22: Establishing the Ensemble

29 maj 2022 | 18 min

17.21: Casting Your Story With Character Voice

22 maj 2022 | 21 min

17.20: Basics of Ensemble Characterization

15 maj 2022 | 16 min

17.19: Working in a Collaborative Environment

8 maj 2022 | 17 min

17.18: How to be Funny, with Jody Lynn Nye

1 maj 2022 | 18 min

17.17: Writing in the Public Domain

24 april 2022 | 13 min

17.16: Miscellaneous Structures

17 april 2022 | 19 min

17.15: Storytelling in the Footnotes

10 april 2022 | 21 min

17.14: Structuring for Disordered or Order-less Reading Order

3 april 2022 | 21 min

17.13: Structuring Around a Thing

27 mars 2022 | 20 min

17.12: Structuring a Story Within a Story

20 mars 2022 | 21 min

17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines

13 mars 2022 | 20 min

17.10: Structuring with Multiple POVs

6 mars 2022 | 18 min

17.9: Let’s Talk About Structure

27 februari 2022 | 18 min

17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity

20 februari 2022 | 20 min

17.7: Dissecting Influence

13 februari 2022 | 20 min

17.6: Hitting Reset Without Getting Hit Back

6 februari 2022 | 21 min

17.5: The Promise of the Brand

30 januari 2022 | 24 min

17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish

23 januari 2022 | 21 min

17.3: Chekov’s Surprising Yet Inevitable Inverted Gun

16 januari 2022 | 20 min

17.2: It Was a Promise of Three Parts

9 januari 2022 | 21 min

17.1: Genre and Media are Promises

2 januari 2022 | 19 min

16.52: Structure is a Promise

26 december 2021 | 20 min

16.51: Promises are a Structure

19 december 2021 | 21 min

16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices

12 december 2021 | 19 min

16.49: Magic and Technology: Two Sides of the Same Coin

5 december 2021 | 21 min

16.48: Believable Worlds Part 2: Creating Texture

28 november 2021 | 18 min

16.47: Believable Worlds Part 1: The Illusion of Real

21 november 2021 | 19 min

16.46: World and Plot: The Only Constant is Change

14 november 2021 | 22 min

16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame

7 november 2021 | 19 min

16.44: World and Character Part 1: All Your Characters Are Biased

31 oktober 2021 | 17 min

16.43: The Narrative Holy Trinity of World, Character, and Plot, with Fonda Lee

24 oktober 2021 | 21 min

16.42: M.I.C.E. Quotient, After the Fact

17 oktober 2021 | 18 min

16.41: Middles and Conflicts with M.I.C.E. Structure

10 oktober 2021 | 22 min

16.40: Nesting Threads in the M.I.C.E. Quotient

3 oktober 2021 | 19 min

16.39: Deep Dive into “Event”

26 september 2021 | 20 min

16.38: Deep Dive into “Character”

19 september 2021 | 19 min

16.37: Deep Dive Into “Inquiry”

12 september 2021 | 22 min

16.36: Deep Dive into “Milieu”

5 september 2021 | 20 min

16.35: What is the M.I.C.E. Quotient?

29 augusti 2021 | 22 min

16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes

22 augusti 2021 | 20 min

16.33: Tell, Don’t Show

15 augusti 2021 | 19 min

16.32: First Page Fundamentals—THE KILLING FLOOR, by Lee Childs

8 augusti 2021 | 21 min

16.31: First Page Fundamentals—MOBY DICK

1 augusti 2021 | 21 min

16.30: First Page Fundamentals—THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

25 juli 2021 | 22 min

16.29: Building Trust

18 juli 2021 | 17 min

16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes

11 juli 2021 | 18 min

16.27: Nobody Wants to Read a Book

4 juli 2021 | 19 min

16.26: Working With Teams

27 juni 2021 | 22 min

16.25: Breaking Into Game Writing

20 juni 2021 | 28 min

16.24: Worldbuilding for Games

13 juni 2021 | 21 min

BONUS EPISODE! 2021 WXR Early-Bird Announcement

10 juni 2021 | 21 min

16.23: Rules and Mechanics

6 juni 2021 | 21 min

16.22: Scenes and Set Pieces

30 maj 2021 | 25 min

16.21: Player Characters

23 maj 2021 | 19 min

16.20: Branching Narratives

16 maj 2021 | 20 min

16.19: Intro to Roleplaying Games

9 maj 2021 | 27 min

16.18: Poetry and the Fantastic

2 maj 2021 | 25 min

16.17: The Time To Rhyme

25 april 2021 | 24 min

16.16: Poetic Structure: Part II

18 april 2021 | 28 min

16.15: Poetic Structure, Part I

11 april 2021 | 18 min

16.14: Poetic Language

4 april 2021 | 21 min

16.13: Day Brain vs. Night Brain

28 mars 2021 | 20 min

16.12 : Singing Versus Speaking

21 mars 2021 | 19 min

16.11: What is Poetry?

14 mars 2021 | 19 min

16.10: Paying it Forward, with Kevin J. Anderson

7 mars 2021 | 28 min

16.9: Crossing The Revenue Streams

28 februari 2021 | 22 min

16.8: Smart Promotion

21 februari 2021 | 24 min

16.7: To Series, or Not to Series

14 februari 2021 | 19 min

16.6: Building Your Brand

7 februari 2021 | 18 min

16.5: Pros and Contracts

31 januari 2021 | 32 min

16.4: Networking

24 januari 2021 | 26 min

16.3: Publishing Pitfalls

17 januari 2021 | 20 min

16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends

10 januari 2021 | 19 min

16.01: Your Career is Your Business

3 januari 2021 | 22 min

15.52: Economy of Phrase, Being the Concentrated Concatenation of Complex Thoughts in Just a Very Few Words Which Must Fit In A Very Very Small Box, With Patrick Rothfuss

27 december 2020 | 23 min

15.51: Feedback—When to Listen, and When to Ignore, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan

20 december 2020 | 21 min

15.50: Juggling Ensembles

13 december 2020 | 19 min

15.49: Maintaining Passion for a Story, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan

6 december 2020 | 18 min

15.48: Deliberate Discomfort, Part Two

29 november 2020 | 23 min

15.47: Worldbuilding Science Fiction, with Cory Doctorow

22 november 2020 | 22 min

15.46: Crafting Chinese-American Characters

15 november 2020 | 18 min

15.45: Worldbuilding Fantasy, with Patrick Rothfuss

8 november 2020 | 31 min

15.44: Rebooting a Career

1 november 2020 | 24 min

15.43: Audiobook Narration, with Bruce D Richardson

25 oktober 2020 | 19 min

15.42: Writing The End

18 oktober 2020 | 18 min

15.41: Researching the FCK out of Things, with Cory Doctorow

11 oktober 2020 | 19 min

15.40: Researching for Writing the Other

4 oktober 2020 | 22 min

15.39: Translation, with special guest Alex Shvartsman

27 september 2020 | 20 min

15.38: Depicting Religions That Are Not Your Own

20 september 2020 | 16 min

15.37: Writing Under Deadlines

13 september 2020 | 20 min

15.36: Collaboration, with Shannon and Dean Hale

6 september 2020 | 16 min

15.35: Tools for Writing and Worldbuilding, with Erin Roberts

30 augusti 2020 | 22 min

15.34: Writing Deliberate Discomfort

23 augusti 2020 | 16 min

15.33: The Long, Dark Second Act of the Soul

16 augusti 2020 | 18 min

15.32: Short Story Markets

9 augusti 2020 | 16 min

15.31: The Agent in the Room

2 augusti 2020 | 20 min

15.30: Write What You Want To Know, with Laurell K. Hamilton

26 juli 2020 | 18 min

15.29: Barbie Pre-Writing, with Janci Patterson and Megan Walker

19 juli 2020 | 17 min

15.28: Small Evils

12 juli 2020 | 17 min

15.27: Alternate History, with Eric Flint

5 juli 2020 | 22 min

15.26: Taking the Chance, with David Weber

28 juni 2020 | 26 min

15.25: Using the MICE Quotient for Conflict

21 juni 2020 | 21 min

15.24: Keeping it Fresh, with Jim Butcher

14 juni 2020 | 17 min

15.23: Serialization

7 juni 2020 | 18 min

15.22 Writing For Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale

31 maj 2020 | 23 min

15.21: Writing About Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale

24 maj 2020 | 19 min

15.20: Mental Wellness and Writing

17 maj 2020 | 24 min

15.19: As You Know, This Episode Is About Exposition

10 maj 2020 | 18 min

15.18: Finding a Community, with Shauna Hoffman

3 maj 2020 | 19 min

15.17: Asexual Representation

26 april 2020 | 17 min

15.16: Balancing Plot and Character

19 april 2020 | 19 min

15.15: Dialog

12 april 2020 | 18 min

15.14: Agent Query Trenches

5 april 2020 | 21 min

15.13: Using Elections in Stories

29 mars 2020 | 16 min

15.12: Writing the Other—Being an Ally

22 mars 2020 | 23 min

15.11: Digital is Different, with Cory Doctorow

15 mars 2020 | 26 min

15.10: Evaluating Ideas

8 mars 2020 | 20 min

15.09: Choose Your Own Adventurous Publishing Path

1 mars 2020 | 25 min

15.08: Q&A on a Ship

23 februari 2020 | 27 min

15.07: Creating Chapters

16 februari 2020 | 19 min

15.06: Prose and Cons, with Patrick Rothfuss

9 februari 2020 | 26 min

15.05: Setting Goals for Your Career

2 februari 2020 | 22 min

15.04: Revision, with Patrick Rothfuss

26 januari 2020 | 29 min

15.03: Self Publishing

19 januari 2020 | 24 min

15.02: Writing Between the Lines

12 januari 2020 | 20 min

15.01: Evolution of a Career

5 januari 2020 | 28 min

14.52: Game Mastering and Collaborative Storytelling, with Natasha Ence

29 december 2019 | 18 min

14.51: A Farewell to Worldbuilding

22 december 2019 | 22 min

14.50: Write What You… No.

15 december 2019 | 19 min

14.49: Customs and Mores

8 december 2019 | 20 min

14.48: How to Practice Worldbuilding

1 december 2019 | 19 min

14.47: Writing Characters With Physical Disabilities

24 november 2019 | 16 min

14.46: Unusual Resources

17 november 2019 | 19 min

14.45: Economics

10 november 2019 | 18 min

14.44: Realism vs. Rule-of-Cool

3 november 2019 | 21 min

14.43: Sequencing Your Career Genome

27 oktober 2019 | 19 min

14.42: Alternate History

20 oktober 2019 | 21 min

14.41: History

13 oktober 2019 | 18 min

14.40: Deep vs. Wide

6 oktober 2019 | 19 min

14.39: Positioning Your Book in the Marketplace

29 september 2019 | 19 min

14.38: Volunteer Opportunities for Writers, with Jared Quan

22 september 2019 | 20 min

14.37: Outlandish Impossibilities

15 september 2019 | 23 min

14.36: Languages and Naming

8 september 2019 | 20 min

14.35: What You Leave Out

1 september 2019 | 19 min

14.34: Author Branding

25 augusti 2019 | 23 min

14.33: Writing Imperfect Worlds

18 augusti 2019 | 21 min

Worldbuilding Gender Roles

11 augusti 2019 | 33 min

14.31: Cultural Setting as Conflict

6 augusti 2019 | 19 min

14.30: Eating Your Way to Better Worldbuilding

28 juli 2019 | 25 min

14.29: Field Research

21 juli 2019 | 19 min

14.28: Warfare and Weaponry

14 juli 2019 | 19 min

14.27: Natural Setting as Conflict

7 juli 2019 | 19 min

14.26: Lessons from Aristotle, with Rob Kimbro

30 juni 2019 | 17 min

14.25: Choosing Your Agent

23 juni 2019 | 22 min

14.24: Political Intrigue

16 juni 2019 | 17 min

14.23: Governments Large and Small

9 juni 2019 | 19 min

14.22: Characters out of Their Depth

2 juni 2019 | 18 min

14.21: Writing The Other — Yes, You Can!

26 maj 2019 | 22 min

14.20: Allegory in Fiction

19 maj 2019 | 18 min

14.19: Religion and Ritual

12 maj 2019 | 18 min

14.18: Setting as Theme

5 maj 2019 | 18 min

14.17: It’s Like “Car Talk” meets “Welcome To Nightvale”

28 april 2019 | 18 min

14.16: Your Setting is a Telegraph

21 april 2019 | 17 min

14.15: Technology

14 april 2019 | 19 min

14.14: When To Tell

7 april 2019 | 17 min

WX 14.13: Obstacles vs. Complications

31 mars 2019 | 16 min

14.12: Writing The Other — Latinx Representation

24 mars 2019 | 20 min

14.11: Magic Without Rules

17 mars 2019 | 20 min

14.10: Magic Systems

10 mars 2019 | 18 min

14.9: Showing Off

3 mars 2019 | 24 min

14.8: Worldbuilding Q&A #1

24 februari 2019 | 25 min

14.7: How Weird is Too Weird?

17 februari 2019 | 16 min

14.6: Fantasy and Science Fiction Races

10 februari 2019 | 17 min

14.5: Viewpoint as Worldbuilding

3 februari 2019 | 18 min

14.04: Writing the Other—Bisexual Characters

27 januari 2019 | 19 min

14.03: World of Hats

20 januari 2019 | 18 min

14.02: Geography and Biomes

13 januari 2019 | 19 min

14.01: Worldbuilding Begins! Up Front, or On the Fly?

6 januari 2019 | 21 min

13.52: Working Dad is a Spaceman

30 december 2018 | 21 min

13.51: Wrap-up on the Year of Character

25 december 2018 | 25 min

13.50: What Writers Get Wrong, with Zoraida Córdova

16 december 2018 | 20 min

13.49: How to Finish

9 december 2018 | 19 min

13.48: Character Death and Plot Armor

2 december 2018 | 20 min

13.47: Q&A on Fixing Characters

25 november 2018 | 19 min

13.46: The Unsexy Side of Space, with Bart Smith and Ben Hewett

18 november 2018 | 27 min

NaNoWriMo 2018 Bonus Episode, with Mercedes Lackey

15 november 2018 | 17 min

13.45: Next Level Narration

11 november 2018 | 22 min

NaNoWriMo 2018 Mini-Episode 2

7 november 2018 | 3 min

13.44: Alien Characters

4 november 2018 | 19 min

NaNoWriMo 2018 Mini-Episode 1

31 oktober 2018 | 5 min

13.43: Characters Who Are Smarter Than You Are

28 oktober 2018 | 26 min

13.42: Writing Excuses Talks to an Astronaut, with Special Guest Kjell Lindgren

21 oktober 2018 | 18 min

13.41: Fixing Character Problems, Part II

14 oktober 2018 | 23 min

13.40: Fixing Character Problems, Part I

7 oktober 2018 | 16 min

13.39: What Writers Get Wrong, With Wendy Tolliver

30 september 2018 | 18 min

13.38: How to Find and Use Alpha Readers

23 september 2018 | 20 min

13.37: What Writers Get Wrong, with J.Y. Yang

16 september 2018 | 20 min

13.36: Confronting the Default

9 september 2018 | 18 min

13.35: Cliché vs. Archetype

2 september 2018 | 21 min

13.34: Q&A on Character Arcs

26 augusti 2018 | 19 min

13.b1: Bonus Episode — Elephants and Death, with Lawrence Schoen

22 augusti 2018 | 18 min

13.33: Reading Outside the Box

19 augusti 2018 | 21 min

13.32: How To Handle Weighty Topics

12 augusti 2018 | 30 min

13.31: Learning to Listen as a Writer

5 augusti 2018 | 21 min

13.30: Project in Depth, THE CALCULATING STARS, with Kjell Lindgren

29 juli 2018 | 31 min

13.29: Iconic Heroes

22 juli 2018 | 19 min

13.28: What Writers Get Wrong, with Wildstyle

15 juli 2018 | 17 min

13.27: Characters as Foils

8 juli 2018 | 19 min

13.26: Character Relationships

1 juli 2018 | 21 min

13.25: Our Journey With Character

24 juni 2018 | 18 min

13.24: What Writers Get Wrong, with Piper, Aliette, and Wesley, with special guest Ken Liu

17 juni 2018 | 23 min

13.23: Internal Conflicts

10 juni 2018 | 27 min

13.22: Character Arcs

3 juni 2018 | 16 min

13.21: Q&A on Character Depth and Motivation

27 maj 2018 | 20 min

13.20: Fear and Writing, with Emma Newman

20 maj 2018 | 20 min

13.19: Backstories

13 maj 2018 | 20 min

13.18: Naturally Revealing Character Motivation

6 maj 2018 | 19 min

13.17: What Writers Get Wrong, with Jamahl Crouch

29 april 2018 | 16 min

13.16: Avoiding Flat Characters

22 april 2018 | 17 min

13.15: What Writers Get Wrong, with Mike Stop Continues

15 april 2018 | 19 min

13.14: Character Nuance

8 april 2018 | 18 min

13.13: Character Voice

1 april 2018 | 24 min

13.12: Q&A on Heroes, Villains, and Main Characters

25 mars 2018 | 17 min

13.11: Writing Secondary Characters, with Charlaine Harris

18 mars 2018 | 17 min

13.10: Handling a Large Cast

11 mars 2018 | 23 min

13.9: Quick Characterization

4 mars 2018 | 18 min

13.8: Making Characters Distinctive

25 februari 2018 | 21 min

13.7: What Writers Get Wrong, with Lou Perry

18 februari 2018 | 15 min

13.6: External Conflicts for Characters

11 februari 2018 | 21 min

13.5: Villain, Antagonist, Obstacle

4 februari 2018 | 18 min

13.4: Protagonists Who Aren’t Sympathetic

28 januari 2018 | 20 min

13.3: What Writers Get Wrong, with Aliette de Bodard

21 januari 2018 | 22 min

13.2: Writing Active Characters

14 januari 2018 | 19 min

13.1: Hero, Protagonist, Main Character

7 januari 2018 | 17 min

12.53: Writing Excuses True Confessions

31 december 2017 | 29 min

12.52: Cross-Genres as Gateways

24 december 2017 | 18 min

12.51: Constructed Languages, with Dirk Elzinga

17 december 2017 | 19 min

12.50: Form and Function

10 december 2017 | 23 min

12.49: Non-linear Narratives

3 december 2017 | 18 min

12.48: Q&A on Novels and Series, with Brian McClellan

26 november 2017 | 25 min

12.47: Screenwriting and the Writers Room, with JD Payne

19 november 2017 | 19 min

12.46: Reinventing Yourself

12 november 2017 | 21 min

12.45: Structuring a Series

5 november 2017 | 23 min

12.44: NaNoWriMo 2017 Primer

29 oktober 2017 | 19 min

12.43: Serialized Storytelling

22 oktober 2017 | 22 min

12.42: Adapting Your Stories for Game Play, with Alan Bahr

15 oktober 2017 | 14 min

12.41: Raising the Stakes

8 oktober 2017 | 20 min

12.40: Structuring a Novel

1 oktober 2017 | 19 min

12.39: Q&A on Short(er) Fiction

24 september 2017 | 20 min

12.38: What Do Editors Really Want, with Toni Weisskopf and Cat Rambo

17 september 2017 | 17 min

12.37: Subplots

10 september 2017 | 21 min

12.36: Structuring a Mid-Length Piece

3 september 2017 | 20 min

12.35: Short Fiction Markets, with Spencer Ellsworth and guest host Beth Meacham

27 augusti 2017 | 17 min

12.34: Fulfilling the Reader’s Fantasy, with Brian McClellan

20 augusti 2017 | 20 min

12.33: How to be Brief, Yet Powerful

13 augusti 2017 | 21 min

12.32: Structuring a Short Piece

6 augusti 2017 | 22 min

12.31: What Makes a Good Monster, with Courtney Alameda

30 juli 2017 | 18 min

12.30: Tools for Writers

23 juli 2017 | 21 min

12.29: “Oh Crap, the Cops are Here!” with Joe McKinney

16 juli 2017 | 21 min

12.28: Trimming and Expanding

9 juli 2017 | 20 min

12.27: Choosing a Length

2 juli 2017 | 22 min

12.26: Q&A on Outlining and Discovery Writing

25 juni 2017 | 21 min

12.25: Hiring an Editor, with Callie Stoker

18 juni 2017 | 19 min

12.24: Creating Great Outlines

11 juni 2017 | 21 min

12.23: Proposals, Pitches, and Queries

4 juni 2017 | 22 min

12.22: Hybrid Outlining and Discovery Writing

28 maj 2017 | 19 min

12.21: Narrative Bumper Pool, with Bill Fawcett and Carrie Patel

21 maj 2017 | 20 min

12.20: Retrofitting Structure into a First Draft

14 maj 2017 | 21 min

12.19: Structure on the Fly

7 maj 2017 | 20 min

12.18: Gendered Dialect, with J.R. Johansson

30 april 2017 | 19 min

12.17: Q&A on Style, Diction, and Paragraphing

23 april 2017 | 23 min

12.16: Writing Crime Fiction with Brian Keene

16 april 2017 | 20 min

12.15: Pacing With Chapters

9 april 2017 | 21 min

12.14: Controlling Pacing with Structure

3 april 2017 | 20 min

12.13: Beautiful Prose, Purple Prose

26 mars 2017 | 23 min

12.12: Words as Words, with Linda Addison

19 mars 2017 | 21 min

12.11: Diction

12 mars 2017 | 20 min

12.10: Developing Your Own, Personal Style

5 mars 2017 | 19 min

12.9: Q&A on Viewpoint

26 februari 2017 | 25 min

12.8 Short Stories as Exploration, with Tananarive Due

19 februari 2017 | 14 min

12.7: Description Through the Third Person Lens

12 februari 2017 | 20 min

12.6: Variations on Third Person

5 februari 2017 | 19 min

12.5: Literary Fiction

29 januari 2017 | 20 min

12.4: Hybrid Viewpoints

22 januari 2017 | 19 min

12.3: Project in Depth, “Risk Assessment,” by Sandra Tayler

15 januari 2017 | 24 min

12.2: How to Nail Character Voice in First Person

8 januari 2017 | 21 min

12.1: Variations on First Person

1 januari 2017 | 24 min

11.52: Elemental Ensemble Q&A, With Claudia Gray

24 december 2016 | 25 min

11.51: Ensemble as a Sub-Genre, with Lynne M. Thomas

18 december 2016 | 17 min

11.50: Hand-Selling Your Book to Potential Readers, with Michael R. Underwood

11 december 2016 | 24 min

11.49: Elemental Ensemble, with Michael Damien Thomas

4 december 2016 | 24 min

11.Bonus-04: Fantasy Food, with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch

29 november 2016 | 18 min

11.48: Elemental Issue Q&A, with DongWon Song

27 november 2016 | 22 min

11.47: Issue as a Subgenre, with Steven Barnes

20 november 2016 | 24 min

11.46: Colonialism, with Steven Barnes, Tempest Bradford, DongWon Song, and Shveta Thakrar

13 november 2016 | 27 min

11.45: Elemental Issue, with Desiree Burch

6 november 2016 | 25 min

11.Bonus-03: Some Books Have Maps in the Front, with Maurice Broaddus, Mur Lafferty, and James Sutter

3 november 2016 | 20 min

11.Bonus-02: Horrifying the Children, with Darren Shan

1 november 2016 | 24 min

11.44: Project in Depth, GHOST TALKERS, by Mary Robinette Kowal

30 oktober 2016 | 33 min

11.43: Elemental Drama Q&A, with Tananarive Due

23 oktober 2016 | 19 min

11.42: Elemental Drama as a Sub-Genre

16 oktober 2016 | 21 min

11.Bonus-01: Characterization and Differentiation, with Robin Hobb

13 oktober 2016 | 21 min

11.41: The Editor’s Wish List, with Navah Wolfe

9 oktober 2016 | 20 min

11.40: Elemental Drama

2 oktober 2016 | 16 min

11.39: Elemental Relationship Q&A, with Greg van Eekhout

25 september 2016 | 20 min

11.38: The Elemental Relationship as a Sub-Genre

18 september 2016 | 20 min

11.37: Casting Your Book, with Gama Martinez

11 september 2016 | 18 min

11.36: The Elemental Relationship

4 september 2016 | 17 min

11.35: Elemental Humor Q&A with Victoria Schwab

28 augusti 2016 | 22 min

11.34: Humor as a Sub-Genre

21 augusti 2016 | 22 min

11.33: Crossover Fiction, with Victoria Schwab

14 augusti 2016 | 21 min

11.32: The Element of Humor

7 augusti 2016 | 23 min

11.31: Futurism, with Trina Marie Phillips

31 juli 2016 | 17 min

11.30: Elemental Thriller Q&A

24 juli 2016 | 21 min

11.29: Elemental Thriller as a Subgenre

17 juli 2016 | 20 min

11.28: Impostor Syndrome, with Alyssa Wong

10 juli 2016 | 26 min

11.27: The Elemental Thriller

3 juli 2016 | 17 min

11.26: Elemental Mystery Q&A

26 juni 2016 | 19 min

11.25: Elemental Mystery is Everywhere

19 juni 2016 | 17 min

11.24: Stakes!

12 juni 2016 | 19 min

11.23: The Element of Mystery

5 juni 2016 | 19 min

11.22: Examining Unconscious Biases, with Shannon Hale

29 maj 2016 | 21 min

11.21: Q&A on Elemental Horror, with Steve Diamond

22 maj 2016 | 21 min

11.20: Horror as a Subgenre

15 maj 2016 | 22 min

11.19: Fashion for Writers, with Rebecca McKinney

8 maj 2016 | 19 min

11.18: Elemental Horror

1 maj 2016 | 22 min

11.17: Elemental Adventure Q&A

24 april 2016 | 23 min

11.16: Adventure as a Subgenre

17 april 2016 | 23 min

11.15: The Environment, with L.E. Modessit, Jr.

10 april 2016 | 17 min

11.14: The Element of Adventure

3 april 2016 | 21 min

11.13: Elemental Idea Q&A

27 mars 2016 | 16 min

11.12: Idea as Subgenre, With Nancy Fulda

20 mars 2016 | 20 min

11.11: Self Publishing in 2016, with Michaelbrent Collings

13 mars 2016 | 18 min

11.10: Idea, as Genre, with Nancy Fulda

6 mars 2016 | 20 min

11.09: Q&A on the Element of Wonder

28 februari 2016 | 18 min

11.08: Wonder as a Subgenre

21 februari 2016 | 21 min

11.07: The Convention Survival Kit, with Gail Carriger

14 februari 2016 | 19 min

11.06: The Element of Wonder

7 februari 2016 | 18 min

11.05: Writing and World Building for Role Playing Games

31 januari 2016 | 17 min

11.04: Newton’s Laws of Writing

24 januari 2016 | 19 min

11.03: Layering The Elemental Genres

17 januari 2016 | 19 min

11.2: How To Get The Most Out Of A Conference, with Kathy Chung

10 januari 2016 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 11.1: Introduction to Elemental Genre

3 januari 2016 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 10.52: Moving On, with Ellen Kushner

27 december 2015 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 10.51: Q&A on Showing Your Work, with Daniel José Older

20 december 2015 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 10.50: How to Hand-Sell Your Manuscript to Agents and Editors, with Michael Underwood and Marco Palmieri

13 december 2015 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 10.49: What Do I Do With This Thing Now?

6 december 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.48: Project in Depth, The Devil’s Only Friend

29 november 2015 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 10.47: Q&A on Revision

22 november 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.46: How Do I Make This Pretty?

15 november 2015 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 10.45: Q&A at the GenCon Writing Symposium, with Kameron Hurley, James L. Sutter, and Michael Underwood

8 november 2015 | 27 min

Writing Excuses 10.44: How Do I Fix What is Broken?

1 november 2015 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 10.43: Q&A on Endings, with Delia Sherman

25 oktober 2015 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 10.42: How In The World Do I Tie All This Together?

18 oktober 2015 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 10.41: Your Character’s Moral Pendulum

11 oktober 2015 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 10.40: What’s the Difference Between Ending and Stopping?

4 oktober 2015 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 10.39: Q&A on Plot Twists with Kevin J. Anderson

27 september 2015 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 10.38: How Does Context Shape Dialog?

20 september 2015 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 10.37: Being a Good Panelist and a Great Moderator, with Susan J. Morris and Marc Tassin

13 september 2015 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 10.36: How Does Context Shape Plot Twists?

6 september 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.35: Breaking In, With Charlie N. Holmberg

30 augusti 2015 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 10.34: Q&A on Pacing

23 augusti 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.33: Combat, with Marie Brennan

16 augusti 2015 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 10.32: How Do I Control the Speed of the Story?

9 augusti 2015 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 10.31: How Do I Control the Reader’s Sense of Progress?

2 augusti 2015 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 10.30: Q&A on Middles, with Marie Brennan

26 juli 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.29: Why Should My Characters Fail Spectacularly?

19 juli 2015 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 10.28: Polytheism in Fiction, with Marie Brennan

12 juli 2015 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 10.27: Why Can’t I Just Jump to the Ending?

5 juli 2015 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 10.26: Q&A on Scenes and Description

28 juni 2015 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 10.25: What Makes a Scene?

21 juni 2015 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 10.24: Hooking Younger Readers

14 juni 2015 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 10.23: Can You Tell Me How To Show?

7 juni 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.22: Project-in-Depth—Of Noble Family

31 maj 2015 | 31 min

Writing Excuses 10.21: Q&A on World Building

24 maj 2015 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 10.20: How Do I Write a Story, Not an Encyclopedia?

17 maj 2015 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 10.19: Intrigue

10 maj 2015 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 10.18: Build an Entire World? Are You Crazy?

3 maj 2015 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 10.17: Q&A on Beginnings

26 april 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space?

19 april 2015 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 10.15: Worldbuilding Wilderness with Wes Chu

12 april 2015 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 10.14: How Much of the Beginning Needs to Come First?

5 april 2015 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 10.13: Where is My Story Going?

30 mars 2015 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu

23 mars 2015 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 10.11: Project In Depth: “Parallel Perspectives”

15 mars 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.10: Q&A with the I Ching

8 mars 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.9: Where is My Story Coming From?

2 mars 2015 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 10.8: Q&A on Character

22 februari 2015 | 24 min

Writing Excuses 10.7: Who Are All These People?

16 februari 2015 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 10.6: The Worldbuilding Revolves Around Me (“The Magical 1%”)

9 februari 2015 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 10.5: What Do You Mean My Main Character is Boring?

2 februari 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.4: Q&A on Ideas

25 januari 2015 | 16 min

2015 Hugo Award Eligibility – SHADOWS BENEATH

21 januari 2015 | 2 min

Writing Excuses 10.3: Lovecraftian Horror

20 januari 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 10.2: I Have an Idea; What Do I Do Now?

12 januari 2015 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 10.1: Seriously, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

5 januari 2015 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.54: Capstone to Season 9

29 december 2014 | 30 min

Writing Excuses 9.53: Writing For Fun

22 december 2014 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 9.52: From the Page to the Stage

15 december 2014 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 9.51: Q&A At The Retreat

8 december 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.50: Writing for the Enfranchised Reader

4 december 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.48: Neurobolics of Characters

1 december 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.49: Hiding the Open Grave

24 november 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.47: Conversation With a Bookseller

18 november 2014 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 9.46: Disability in Narrative

9 november 2014 | 15 min

Writing Excuses 9.45: Tools for Writing from Oral Storytelling

3 november 2014 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 9.44: Getting in the Writer’s Mindset with Peter Beagle

27 oktober 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.43: Writing Mysteries

20 oktober 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.42: The Convention-Author Relationship, with Deirdre Saoirse Moen

12 oktober 2014 | 27 min

Registration is open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat

9 oktober 2014 | 8 min

Writing Excuses 9.41: Fan Writing, with Christopher J. Garcia

5 oktober 2014 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 9.40: Understanding Royalties, with Paul Stevens

28 september 2014 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 9.39: Publicity for Books

22 september 2014 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 9.38: Q&A at Westercon

15 september 2014 | 22 min

9.37: Training A Critique Group, with Kathleen Dalton Woodbury

8 september 2014 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 9.36: Writing Instruction

1 september 2014 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 9.35: What to do when you disagree with your editor

24 augusti 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education

17 augusti 2014 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 9.33: Microcasting

10 augusti 2014 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 9.32: Adjusting Character Proactivity

3 augusti 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.31: Critiquing “An Honest Death”

27 juli 2014 | 33 min

Writing Excuses 9.30: Critiquing A Fire in the Heavens

20 juli 2014 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 9.29: Part 2 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk

13 juli 2014 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 9.28: Part 1 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk

6 juli 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.27: Pre-writing

30 juni 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.26: Adjusting Character Competence

23 juni 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.25: Adjusting Character Sympathy

16 juni 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.24: Side Quests

9 juni 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.23: World Building Without Breaking Viewpoint

2 juni 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.22: Microcasting

26 maj 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.21: Sanderson’s 3rd Law

19 maj 2014 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 9.20: Creator vs Creation

12 maj 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.19: Showing Emotion

5 maj 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.18: Microcasting

28 april 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.17: Microcasting

21 april 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.16: Coming up with a New Ending Halfway Through

16 april 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.15: Becoming a Writer—Full Disclosure

7 april 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.14: How to have an Opinion as a Public Figure

4 april 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.13: Three Pronged Character Development

30 mars 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.12: Microcasting! Twice in a row!

24 mars 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.11: Microcasting

17 mars 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.10: Engaging Characters

10 mars 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.9: What to do When Truth is Stranger than Fiction

3 mars 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.8: When is your Handwavium Good Enough?

24 februari 2014 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 9.7: Last Pass Revisions with Eric James Stone

16 februari 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.6: The Experience of Time

10 februari 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.5: Hijacking the Knowledge You Already Have, with Mette Ivie Harrison

3 februari 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.4: Artificial Intelligence with Nancy Fulda

27 januari 2014 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 9.3: Character Perception vs. Narrative Perception with Nancy Fulda

19 januari 2014 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 9.2: Hard Science Fiction with Eric James Stone

13 januari 2014 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 9.1: Chronology of a Book Deal with Eric James Stone

6 januari 2014 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 8.52: You Think You Don’t Have Time to Write, with Mette Ivie Harrison

30 december 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.51: Creative non-fiction with Mette Ivie Harrison

23 december 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.50: Q&A with Mercedes Lackey

15 december 2013 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 8.49: Hard Social Science Fiction with Joel Shepherd

8 december 2013 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 8.48: Long-Form Storytelling with Sam Logan

1 december 2013 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 8.47: Roguishness with Scott Lynch

25 november 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.46: Editing with Aeryn Rudel

17 november 2013 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 8.45: Gencon Q&A With Wesley Chu

11 november 2013 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 8.44: Talking Publishing with Tom Doherty

3 november 2013 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 8.43: Realistic Melee Fighting with Wesley Chu

27 oktober 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.42: The Internal Heckler vs. The Internal Editor

20 oktober 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.41: Out of Excuses Retreat Microcasting

14 oktober 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.40: Publishing with Bill Schafer

7 oktober 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.39: Dystopian Fiction with Cherie Priest

30 september 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.38:Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #2

23 september 2013 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 8.37: When Fail Happens in Your Career

16 september 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.36: Transitioning Characters in Prominence

8 september 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.35: Digging Yourself Out of Holes with Jeph Jacques

1 september 2013 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 8.34: Survivorship Bias

26 augusti 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable

18 augusti 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting

11 augusti 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.31: Combining Dialogue, Blocking, and Description

4 augusti 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.30: Writing Reluctant Characters

29 juli 2013 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 8.29: Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #1

22 juli 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.28: Your First Contract

14 juli 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns

7 juli 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.26: Space Opera

30 juni 2013 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 8.25: Middle Grade with E.J. Patten

23 juni 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.24: Project in Depth–Kiss Me Twice

16 juni 2013 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 8.23: Microcasting

9 juni 2013 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 8.22: Pre-writing with E.J. Patten

2 juni 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.21: What the Avengers did Right

26 maj 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.20: The Short Story, with Mary Robinette Kowal

19 maj 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.19: Writing and Convention Culture

12 maj 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.18: Blocking

6 maj 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.17: Microcasting

28 april 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.16: Brainstorming with Brandon Again

22 april 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.15: Narrative Rhythm

15 april 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.14: Brainstorming with Brandon

7 april 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.13: Fake It Till You Make it

1 april 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.12: Project in Depth — Deus ex Nauseum

24 mars 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.11: Abnormal Psychology

18 mars 2013 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 8.10: Brainstorming With Howard Again

11 mars 2013 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 8.9: Brainstorming with Howard

4 mars 2013 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 8.8: Writing and Personal Health

25 februari 2013 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 8.7: Cliffhangers and Icebergs with Robison Wells

17 februari 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.6: Retellings and Adaptations

11 februari 2013 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 8.5: Breaking the Rules

4 februari 2013 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 8.4: Side-Character Arcs

28 januari 2013 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 8.3: Pets

21 januari 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 8.2: Hero’s Journey

13 januari 2013 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 8.1: Microcasting

6 januari 2013 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.54: Four Ways the Industry is Changing

31 december 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.53: Secret History

26 december 2012 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 7.52: Microcasting

17 december 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.51: Brainstorming with Mary

12 december 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.50: Outlining the Mary Way

10 december 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.49: Beginnings Revisited

3 december 2012 | 19 min

NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Episode 4, with Mary & Brandon

29 november 2012 | 3 min

Writing Excuses 7.48: Pixar Rules for Writing a Compelling Story

26 november 2012 | 19 min

NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Episode 3, with Howard

23 november 2012 | 3 min

Writing Excuses 7.47: Raising the Stakes

19 november 2012 | 18 min

NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Mini-Episode 2, with Dan & Rob

15 november 2012 | 4 min

Writing Excuses 7.46: Project in Depth The Emperor’s Soul

12 november 2012 | 23 min

NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Mini-Episode 1, with Brandon & Mary

8 november 2012 | 3 min

Writing Excuses 7.45: Microcasting

5 november 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.44: Writing for Comics with Jim Zub

29 oktober 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.43: Tie-in Fantasy Fiction with James L Sutter

22 oktober 2012 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 7.42: Contemporary YA Fiction

15 oktober 2012 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 7.41: Seven-Point Story Structure

7 oktober 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.40: Writing the Other

1 oktober 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.39: Death

23 september 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.38: Writing Love Scenes

16 september 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.37: Pantsing

10 september 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.35: Brainstorming with Dan

2 september 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.36: Writing Gaming Fiction with Monte Cook

27 augusti 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.34: How to Start the Next One

19 augusti 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.33: Authentic Emotion

13 augusti 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.32: Astronomy 101 for Writers

6 augusti 2012 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 7.31: Project in Depth — Hollow City

30 juli 2012 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 7.30: Micocasting…Again!

23 juli 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.29: The Villain Problem

15 juli 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.28: Project in Depth– Glamour in Glass

9 juli 2012 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 7.27: The Problem of Originality

2 juli 2012 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 7.26: Q&A at UVU part 2

25 juni 2012 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers

17 juni 2012 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 7.24: Project in Depth — Way of Kings

10 juni 2012 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 7.23: Time Travel

3 juni 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting

27 maj 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.21: Project In Depth — Force Multiplication

21 maj 2012 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 7.20: Cathartic Horror

14 maj 2012 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 7.19: Q&A at UVU

7 maj 2012 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 7.18: Discovering your Voice

30 april 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.17: Guns and Fiction

23 april 2012 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 7.16: Continuing with Mary’s Outline

16 april 2012 | 25 min

Writing Excuses 7.15: Editing Mary’s Outline

9 april 2012 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 7.14: Writing Excuses

1 april 2012 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 7.13: Man Vs. Nature

25 mars 2012 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 7.12: Writing the Omniscient Viewpoint

18 mars 2012 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 7.11: More Microcasting

12 mars 2012 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 7.10: Importance of Criticism, with David Brin

5 mars 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.9: Microcasting

27 februari 2012 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 7.8: The City as a Character

20 februari 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.7: Historical Fantasy

13 februari 2012 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 7.6: Behind the Marshmallow

6 februari 2012 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 7.5: Sensory Writing

30 januari 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity

23 januari 2012 | 15 min

Writing Excuses 7.3: Fauna and Flora

16 januari 2012 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 7.2: World Building Flora and Fauna

9 januari 2012 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 7.1 When Good Characters Go Bad

2 januari 2012 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 6.30: Help! I Can’t End My Book!

26 december 2011 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 6.29: Character Foils

19 december 2011 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 6.28: Interstitial Art

12 december 2011 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 6.27: Fantasy Setting Yard Sale

4 december 2011 | 17 min

NaNoWriMo Pep-talk from Howard

30 november 2011 | 1 min

Writing Excuses 6.26: Mystery Plotting

28 november 2011 | 17 min

NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Dan

23 november 2011 | 1 min

Writing Excuses 6.25: When Characters do Dumb Things

21 november 2011 | 16 min

NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Mary

17 november 2011 | 2 min

Writing Excuses 6.24: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

14 november 2011 | 19 min

NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Brandon

9 november 2011 | 1 min

Writing Excuses 6.23: Pigeon Holes

7 november 2011 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 6.22: Continuing Education for Writers

31 oktober 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 6.21: Brainstorming From Story Seeds

24 oktober 2011 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 6.20: Endings

17 oktober 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 6.19: Pitching

10 oktober 2011 | 18 min

6.18: The Hollywood Formula, with Lou Anders

2 oktober 2011 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 6.17: Writing Assistants

25 september 2011 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 6.16: Gender Roles–Black, White, and Gray

19 september 2011 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 6.15: Writing Other Cultures

12 september 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 6.14: Suspension of Disbelief

5 september 2011 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 6.13: World Building Communications Technology

29 augusti 2011 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 6.12: Revising For Description

22 augusti 2011 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 6.11: Making Your Descriptions Do More Than One Thing

15 augusti 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 6.10: Scott Card’s M.I.C.E. Quotient

8 augusti 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 6.9: Microcasting 2 Electric Boogaloo

31 juli 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 6.8: What an Agent Does

25 juli 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 6.7: Brainstorming a Cyberpunk Story

18 juli 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 6.6: Cyberpunk

11 juli 2011 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 6.5: Query Letters

4 juli 2011 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 6.4: Microcasting

27 juni 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 6.3: Professional Organizations

20 juni 2011 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations

13 juni 2011 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?

6 juni 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 5.39: Filking and Writing Music with Tom Smith

30 maj 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.38: Dialog with John Scalzi

23 maj 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.37: Parody and Satire with Jim Hines

16 maj 2011 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 5.36: Non-Traditional Settings with Saladin Ahmed

9 maj 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.35: Brainstorming Urban Fantasy

2 maj 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.34: Story Bibles

24 april 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses on the 2011 Hugo Ballot

24 april 2011 | 6 min

Writing Excuses 5.33: Alpha Readers

17 april 2011 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 5.32: Urban Fantasy

10 april 2011 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 5.31: Writing Romance

4 april 2011 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 5.30: Writing Action

28 mars 2011 | 20 min

Writing Excuses 5.29: Rewriting

21 mars 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 5.28: E-publishing

14 mars 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.27: Perseverance, with Sherrilyn Kenyon

7 mars 2011 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 5.26: Scared for the Characters

28 februari 2011 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 5.25: Writing in Other People’s Universes

21 februari 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.24: The Author’s Responsibility to the Reader

14 februari 2011 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.23: Life Day!

7 februari 2011 | 15 min

Writing Excuses 5.22: Film Considerations

31 januari 2011 | 14 min

Writing Excuses 5.21: Alternate History

24 januari 2011 | 23 min

Writing Excuses 5.20: More Dialog Exercises

17 januari 2011 | 24 min

Writing Excuses 5.19: Fulfilling Promises to Your Readers

10 januari 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 5.18: Offending Your Readers

3 januari 2011 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 5.17: Dialog Exercises

28 december 2010 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 5.16: Critiquing Dan’s First Novel

20 december 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 5.12: Time Travel!

13 december 2010 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.15: Steampunk with Scott Westerfeld

6 december 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 5.14: Visual Components of Novels with Scott Westerfeld

29 november 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 5.13: Writing the Second Book

22 november 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 5.12: The Secret of Lincoln’s Gold

22 november 2010 | 0 min

Writing Excuses 5.11: MicroPodcasting 2

15 november 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 5.10: John Brown and the Creative Process

8 november 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Bonus Episode! Voting in the Service of a Dark God

2 november 2010 | 2 min

Writing Excuses 5.9: Character Arcs

1 november 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 5.8: The Excuses You’re Out Of

25 oktober 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 5.7: Avoiding Melodrama

17 oktober 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 5.6.01: Flash Fiction

12 oktober 2010 | 0 min

Writing Excuses 5.6: MicroPodcasts

10 oktober 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 5.5: Writing the Unfamiliar

4 oktober 2010 | 18 min

Parsec Acceptance Speech 2010

28 september 2010 | 3 min

Writing Excuses 5.4: Creating Suspense

27 september 2010 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 5.3: First Person Viewpoint

19 september 2010 | 16 min

WE 5.2: Character Quirks

12 september 2010 | 17 min

WE 5.1: Third Person Limited

7 september 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.34: Q&A at Dragons & Fairy Tales

29 augusti 2010 | 22 min

Writing Excuses 4.33: Trunk Novels

23 augusti 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 4.32: First Paragraphs

16 augusti 2010 | 21 min

Writing Excuses 4.31: Line Editing Dialog

9 augusti 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 4.30: Worldbuilding the Future

2 augusti 2010 | 15 min

Writing Excuses 4.29: Line Editing

26 juli 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 4.28: Brainstorming The End and Working Backwards

19 juli 2010 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 4.27: Major Overhauls to Broken Stories

12 juli 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 4.26: Avoiding Stilted Dialog

5 juli 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.25: Mating Plumage

27 juni 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 4.24: Random Storytelling

20 juni 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 4.23: How to Break In to the Young Adult Market

13 juni 2010 | 15 min

Writing Excuses 4.22: Q&A with L.E. Modesitt, Jr

7 juni 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 4.21: Writing Practical Fantasy

31 maj 2010 | 15 min

Writing Excuses 4.20: Strategies for Getting Published

24 maj 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 4.19: Discovery Writing

17 maj 2010 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 4.18: How to Steal for Fun and Profit

10 maj 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 4.17: Living with the Artist

3 maj 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 4.16: Breaking the Fourth Wall

26 april 2010 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 4.15: Visual Components of Storytelling

19 april 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.14: Brainstorming Science Ideas

12 april 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.13: Juggling Multiple Viewpoints

5 april 2010 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 4.12: Writing An Epic

29 mars 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.11: Brainstorming From Headlines

22 mars 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 4.10: Writing for Young Adults

14 mars 2010 | 18 min

Writing Excuses 4.9: How to Write Men, with Jessica Day George

8 mars 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.8: Working with Editors

1 mars 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.7: Q&A with James Dashner

22 februari 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 4.6: Pacing with James Dashner

15 februari 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.5: Roleplaying Games as Tools for Story Telling

8 februari 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.4: Agents. Do you need one?

1 februari 2010 | 16 min

Writing Excuses 4.3: How to Manage Your Influences

25 januari 2010 | 19 min

Writing Excuses 4.2: Heroism

17 januari 2010 | 17 min

Writing Excuses 4.1: Types of Humor

11 januari 2010 | 20 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 32: Collaboration

4 januari 2010 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 31: Tragedy

28 december 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 29: Antiheroes

20 december 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 30: Unreliable Narrators

14 december 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 28: World-Building Gender Roles

7 december 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 27: Mixing Humor with Drama and Horror

1 december 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 26: NaNoWriMo

23 november 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 25: The Business of Writing Comics

16 november 2009 | 20 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 24: Writing Comics with Jake Black

9 november 2009 | 20 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 23: How to Write Without Twists

2 november 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 22: Idea to Story

25 oktober 2009 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 21: Pitfalls of Self Publishing with Larry Correia

19 oktober 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 20: Plot- vs. Character-Driven Fiction

12 oktober 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 19: Emotion in Fiction with John Brown

5 oktober 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 18: How To Not Repeat Yourself

28 september 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 17: Characters & Worldbuilding Q&A with Mary Robinette Kowal

21 september 2009 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 16: The Anti-Mary Sue Episode

13 september 2009 | 18 min

Writing Excuses: Parsec Award Acceptance Speech

13 september 2009 | 4 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 15: Writing Process Q&A, with Mary Robinette Kowal

6 september 2009 | 17 min

3.14: The Four Principles of Puppetry, with Mary Robinette Kowal

31 augusti 2009 | 14 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 13: Dialects and In-World Jargon

24 augusti 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 12: Subplots

17 augusti 2009 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 11: Trimming

9 augusti 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 10: The Dos and Don’ts of Attending Cons

3 augusti 2009 | 20 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 9: Conventions You Should Be Attending

27 juli 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 8: What Star Trek Did Right

20 juli 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 7: Genre Blending

13 juli 2009 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 6: Dramatic Breaks

7 juli 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 5: How to Take Criticism

29 juni 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 3: Stumping Howard at Conduit

22 juni 2009 | 21 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 2: Keeping it Real with Aprilynne Pike

15 juni 2009 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 4: Non Linear Story Telling

8 juni 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 1: World-Building History

1 juni 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 33: How To Not Be Overwhelmed

25 maj 2009 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 32: The Most Important Thing Dan Learned In The Last Year

18 maj 2009 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 31: The Most Important Thing Brandon Learned In The Last Year

11 maj 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 30: The Most Important Thing Howard Learned In The Last Year

3 maj 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 29: How not to end your book

27 april 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 28: Applying Critical Reading: “Watchmen”

20 april 2009 | 19 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 27: Reading Critically

13 april 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 26: How Publishing is Changing in the new Century

6 april 2009 | 22 min

Writing Excuses Episode 632: Now that we’ve got time travel what do we do with it?

1 april 2009 | 1 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 25: The Seven Deadly Sins of Slush Stories

30 mars 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 24: Writing Habits and Q&A with Tracy Hickman

24 mars 2009 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 23: Avoiding the Cliché with Tracy Hickman

16 mars 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 22: Marketing 201, Branding for Authors

9 mars 2009 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 21: Fight Scenes

2 mars 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 20: Marketing 101 for Creators

23 februari 2009 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 19: Do Creative Writing Classes Help

16 februari 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 18: World Building Governments

9 februari 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 17: Website Marketing for Authors

2 februari 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 16: Non-Human Races

26 januari 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 15: Knowing When To Begin

19 januari 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 14: Writing Habits

12 januari 2009 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 13: Violence

5 januari 2009 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 12: Theme

29 december 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 11: Talking Publishing and Writing with Dave Wolverton

22 december 2008 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 10: The Boring Parts

15 december 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 9: Romance, with Dave Wolverton

8 december 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 8: The Three Act Structure with Bob Defendi

1 december 2008 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 7: Using Writing Formulas with Bob Defendi

24 november 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 6: Endings

17 november 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 5: Writing Groups

11 november 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 4:View point, Plot Twists and Being a Part-Time Writer with Eric James Stone

3 november 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 3: Characters with Brandon Mull

27 oktober 2008 | 17 min

Writing Season 2 Episode 2: How to Write for Children with Brandon Mull

20 oktober 2008 | 20 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Bonus Episode 1: Live at the Mistborn 3 Release

17 oktober 2008 | 21 min

Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 1: Q&A on Setting and Characters at Mountain Con with John Brown

13 oktober 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 35: Voice, Tone and Style

6 oktober 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Episode 34: What The Dark Knight Did Right

29 september 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 33: Side Characters

22 september 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episodes 32: Talking Exposition with Patrick Rothfuss

15 september 2008 | 19 min

Writing Excuses Episode 31: Talking RPG and Game Writing with Steve Jackson

8 september 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 30: Talking Revision with Moshe Feder

2 september 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 29: Talking Publishing with Lou Anders

25 augusti 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 28: Writing for Webcomics with Phil and Kaja Foglio

18 augusti 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 27: World-Building Religion

11 augusti 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 26: Horror

5 augusti 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 25: Viewpoint and Tense Part 2

28 juli 2008 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Episode 24: Research

21 juli 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Episode 23: Viewpoint

15 juli 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Episode 22: Doing The Unpopular

7 juli 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Episode 21: Humor

30 juni 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 20: More Q&A from Conduit

23 juni 2008 | 18 min

Writing Excuses Episode 19: Plot Twists

16 juni 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 18: Q&A at Conduit

9 juni 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Episode 17: This Sucks and I’m a Horrible Writer

2 juni 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 16: Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard

26 maj 2008 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Episode 15: Costs and Ramifications of Magic

19 maj 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 14: Magic Systems and their Rules

12 maj 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 13: Submitting to Editors Part 2

5 maj 2008 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Episode 12: Submitting to Editors Part 1

28 april 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 11: The Business of Writing

21 april 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 10: Pacing

14 april 2008 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Episode 9: Sci-Fi Sub-Genre

7 april 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 8: Sci-Fi Genre

31 mars 2008 | 14 min

Writing Excuses Bonus Episode 2: Rules of Writing Excuses

24 mars 2008 | 3 min

Writing Excuses Episode 7: Villains

24 mars 2008 | 14 min

Writing Excuses Episode 6: Flaws vs Handicaps

17 mars 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Bonus Episode 1: Remembering Gary Gygax

10 mars 2008 | 7 min

Writing Excuses Episode 5: Heroes and Protagonists

10 mars 2008 | 16 min

Writing Excuses Episode 4: Beginnings

3 mars 2008 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Episode 3: Killing your Darlings

25 februari 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses Episode 2: Blending the Familiar and the Original

18 februari 2008 | 15 min

Writing Excuses Episode 1: Brainstorming

11 februari 2008 | 17 min

Writing Excuses

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20.28: The Lens of Tradition

20.27: The Lens of Why

20.26: Gaming as a Writing Metaphor

20.25: Writing Confrontation (LIVE Aboard the WX Cruise)

20.24: An Interview with Charles Duhigg

20.23: The Lens of the Senses

20.22: The Lens of Time

20.21: The Lens of Context

20.20: The Lens of Where and When

20.19: Cooking as a Writing Metaphor

20.18: LIVE: The Art of Teaching

20.17: An Interview with Christopher Schwarz

20.16: Second Person

20.15: Third Person Omniscient

20.14: Third Person Limited

20.13: First Person

20.12: Fashion as a Writing Metaphor

20.11: Kit Lit. Q&A Aboard the WX Cruise, with Mark Oshiro, Kate McKean, and Sandra Tayler

20.10: Interview with Chuck Tingle: Breaking the Rules

20.09: The Reaction of Who?!

20.08: Character Stakes and Fears

20.07: Motivation and Goals

20.06: History and Community

20.05: The Lens of Who

20.04: Puppetry as a Writing Metaphor

20.03: Polishing Your Writing Lens

20.02: Q&A Aboard the Writing Excuses Cruise, with Mark Oshiro and Kate McKean

20.01: Welcome to 2025!

19.52: End of Year Reflections: Navigating Speedbumps

19.51: And That Was That

19.50.5: An Interview with DIY MFA Founder Gabriela Pereira (BONUS EPISODE)

19.50: All Systems Go

19.49: Getting to Know You

19.48: Beginning With A Thrill

19.47.5: Interview with Andrew Buckley of the StoryCentric podcast (BONUS EPISODE)

19.47: Final Thoughts on Our Close Reading Series

19.46: An Interview on Structure with N.K. Jemisin

19.45: A Close Reading on Structure: Tying It All Together

19.44: A Close Reading on Structure: Tradition and Innovation

19.43: A Close Reading on Structure: Parallelism and Inversion

19.42: A Close Reading on Structure: Whose Perspective is it Anyways?

19.41: A Close Reading on Structure: An Overview and Why Fifth Season

19.40: An Interview on Tension with P. Djèlí Clark

19.39: A Close Reading on Tension: Tying It All Together

19.38: A Close Reading on Tension: Anticipation and Subversion

19.37: A Close Reading on Tension: Movement and Resolution

19.36: A Close Reading on Tension: Narrative vs. Contextual

19.35: A Close Reading on Tension: An Overview and Why Ring Shout

19.34: Grants and Fellowships

19.33: Workshops and Retreats

19.32: An Interview on Character with CL Clark

19.31: A Close Reading on Character: Tying it All Together

19.30: A Close Reading on Character: Agency vs. Choices

19.29: A Close Reading on Character: Barriers vs. Stakes

19.28: A Close Reading on Character: Internal vs External Identity

19.27: A Close Reading on Character: An Overview and Why We Chose C.L. Clark's Stories

19.26: Bringing Falconry into Writing

19.25: From the Classroom to the Page

19.24: An Interview on Worldbuilding with Arkady Martine

19.23: Tying It All Together (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)

19.22: Technology and Identity (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)

19.21: Language as a Tool (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)

19.20: How to Make Worlds Feel Big Without Overwhelming the Reader (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: Focusing on Scale)

19.19: A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: An Overview and why A Memory Called Empire

19.18: How to Build Fictional Economies

19.17: Novellas- the Goldilocks of Publishing

19.16: An Interview with Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

19.15: A Close Reading on Voice: Tying It All Together

19.14: A Close Reading on Voice- Epistolary Storytelling Through Voice

19.13: A Close Reading on Voice: Blue's Perspective - Confidence and Vulnerability

19.12: A Close Reading on Voice - Red's Perspective - Muscular Prose

19.11: A Close Reading on Voice- An Overview, and Why Time War

19.10: Introducing Our Close Readings Series

19.09: LIVE Recording - Rituals, Rites, and Traditions

19.08: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Working with an Editor

19.07: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Intention

19.06: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Length

19.05: LIVE Recording - Revisions with Mahtab Narsimhan