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Writing Excuses — 1000 episodes
21.33: When To Shift Gears
21.32: Barrier Breaking- Time Constraints
21.31: Deconstructing Save the Cat
21.30: Chapter Breaks Soon
21.29: How to Make a Scene
21.28: Narrative Transitions
21.27: The Expository Throttle
21.26: Setting the Pace
21.25: Follow the Bouncing Ball
21.24: Deconstructing the Seven Point Plot Structure
21.23: Barrier Breaking: Interruptions
21.22: The Order of the Telling
21.21: Rhythm and Words
21.20: Sequencing from Mega to Micro
21.19: Getting Everything Connected
21.18: Deconstructing the Three Act Structure
21.17: The Up and Down Escalators
21.16: Tension and Release as Call and Response
21.15: Using Contrast for Maximum Effect
21.14: Because at First, They Don’t Succeed
21.13: Does The Middle Have To Be Soggy?
21.12: Breaking Down Barriers- Environment
21.11: The Cold Open- Action
21.10: The Cold Open- Voice
21.09: Grounding The Reader
21.08: Setting Expectations
21.07: Deep Dive- “With Her Serpent Locks”
21.06: Begin and the Beginning
21.05: The Same But Different
21.04: Deconstructing the Hero's Journey
21.03: Deconstructing Plots
21.02: My Process is Not Your Process
21.01: Welcome to the New Year!
20.52: 2025 End-of-Year Wrap Up
20.51: Howard Tayler’s Personal Writing Process
20.50: Dan Wells’ Personal Writing Process
20.49: Using Tone and Mood
20.48: Now Go Write- How to Pitch Your Work
20.47: Now Go Write- All the Eggs in All the Baskets
20.46: Now Go Write- Break All The Rules (Part 2)
20.45: Now Go Write- Break All The Rules (Part 1)
20.44: Now Go Write- How to Handle Relationships
20.43: An Interview with Dr. Tara Lepore on Paleontology
20.42: Erin Roberts’ Personal Writing Process
20.41: DongWon Song’s Personal Writing Process
20.40: Mary Robinette Kowal’s Personal Writing Process
20.39: Wrapping up our Conversation about Lenses
20.38: An Interview with Charlie Jane Anders
20.37: Deep Dive into “All the Birds in the Sky” - Using the Lens of Why
20.36: Deep Dive into “All the Birds in the Sky” - Using the Lens of When
20.35: Deep Dive into “All the Birds in the Sky” - Using the Lens of Where
20.34: Deep Dive into “All the Birds in the Sky” - Using the Lens of Who
20.33: Raising Children as a Metaphor for Writing
20.32: Revision and Character Consciousness Téa Obreht
20.31: Framing the Lens
20.30: Using Why To Shape Tone
20.29: Authorial Intent
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
19.04: LIVE Recording - Pacing with Guest Fonda Lee
19.03: Behind The Scenes with our Producer and Recording Engineer
19.02: Q&A Episode with WX Core Cast
19.01: Interview with Abraham Verghese
18.53: Funding the Writing Life
18.52: Writing Inside The Box
18.51: So You Wanna Play With Format?
18.50: The Unreliable Narrator
18.49: Giving Your Story A Voice
18.48: NaNoWriMo Week 5 - Writing Endings
18.47: NaNoWriMo Week 4 - Climaxes, or OH MY GOD NO
18.46: NaNoWriMo Week 3 - Raising the Stakes
18.45: NaNoWriMo Week 2 - Inciting Incident
18.44: NaNoWriMo Week 1- Getting Started
18.43: Worldbuilding in Miniature
18.42: Creating Magic Outside of a System
18.41: Deep Dive: Erin's Short Fiction Extravaganza
18.40: How To Make Money From Your Hobby (with special guest Sandra Tayler!)
18.39: How To Write An Ending
18.38: How Do You Write A Series With Books That Stand Alone?
18.37: Mandatory Failure
18.36: The Soggy Middle Pays the Rent (or, "Stand Alone With Series Potential")
18.35: How to Organize Your Writing, or Managing the Mega-Arc
18.34: Seventeen Years of Foreshadowing
18.33.5: State Of The Podcast
18.33: Deep Dive: The Schlock Mercenary Finale
18.32: The Kirsten Vangsness Expansion Pack
18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes
18.30: Planting Supernatural Seeds
18.29: Collaboration And Partnership
18.28: Writing Conversational Dialogue
18.27: Framing Stories
18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures, & More
18.25: To Narrator or Not to Narrator
18.24: “Dark One: Forgotten” Deep Dive
18.23: Our Advice on Giving Advice
18.22: On Mentorship: Sending the Elevator Back Down
18.21: The Empathy Gap: How to Understand What Your Publisher is Telling You
18.20: So You Want To Work In Publishing?
18.19: What is Publishing For, Anyway?
18.18: Launching an Author Newsletter
18.17: Build Your Author Brand, 2023 Edition
18.16: Deep Dive: Publishing is Hard, by DongWon Song
18.15: Building a Mystery, Now With More Tools
18.14: Heavy Lifting with Microtension
18.13: Finding the Core Conflict
18.12: The Long Shadow of Unanswered Questions
18.11: Turning Up the Contrast With Juxtaposition
18.10: Anticipation is More Than Just Making Us Wait
18.09: Unpacking the Tension
18.08: Building a Mystery
18.07: Deep Dive into THE SPARE MAN
18.06: An Interview With Howard Tayler
18.05: An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal
18.04: An Interview With Dan Wells
18.03: An Interview With Erin Roberts
18.02: An Interview with DongWon Song
18.01: Twenty Twenty-Three, By Way of Introduction
17.52: The WXR 2022 Q&A
17.51: Feel The Burn
17.50: Consistency, Inconsistency, and the Crushing Weight of Expectations
17.49: Bodies Are Magical
17.48: Bodies, Why? (Part III)
17.47: The Linguistics of Disability
17.46: Monstrous Awakening
17.45: Bodies, Tech, and Character
17.44: Bodies, Why? (Part II: Working Through Disability)
17.43: Bodies. Why? (Depicting Disability)
17.42: Eight Embodied Episodes About Disability
17.41: Picture Books are Books Too, with Special Guest Seth Fishman
17.40: Questions & Answers About Structure, with Special Guest Peng Shepherd
17.39: Writing Bodies and Intimacy, with K.M. Szpara
17.38: Oh No I Lost The Thread
17.37: Science and Fiction—It’s Not Just Science Fiction
17.36: Space for Everyone
17.35: Nuances of Dialog
17.34: Developing Subtext
17.33: Building Tension
17.32: Everything is About Conflict
17.31: Everyone Has an Agenda
17.30: Know Your Characters
17.29: The Job of Dialogue
17.28: Keys to Writing Dialog
17.27: Ensembles Behind the Scenes
17.26: Hanging Separately
17.25: Archetypes, Ensembles, and Expectations
17.24: Ensembles and Genre
17.23: Are We Stronger Together?
17.22: Establishing the Ensemble
17.21: Casting Your Story With Character Voice
17.20: Basics of Ensemble Characterization
17.19: Working in a Collaborative Environment
17.18: How to be Funny, with Jody Lynn Nye
17.17: Writing in the Public Domain
17.16: Miscellaneous Structures
17.15: Storytelling in the Footnotes
17.14: Structuring for Disordered or Order-less Reading Order
17.13: Structuring Around a Thing
17.12: Structuring a Story Within a Story
17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines
17.10: Structuring with Multiple POVs
17.9: Let’s Talk About Structure
17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity
17.7: Dissecting Influence
17.6: Hitting Reset Without Getting Hit Back
17.5: The Promise of the Brand
17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish
17.3: Chekov’s Surprising Yet Inevitable Inverted Gun
17.2: It Was a Promise of Three Parts
17.1: Genre and Media are Promises
16.52: Structure is a Promise
16.51: Promises are a Structure
16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices
16.49: Magic and Technology: Two Sides of the Same Coin
16.48: Believable Worlds Part 2: Creating Texture
16.47: Believable Worlds Part 1: The Illusion of Real
16.46: World and Plot: The Only Constant is Change
16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame
16.44: World and Character Part 1: All Your Characters Are Biased
16.43: The Narrative Holy Trinity of World, Character, and Plot, with Fonda Lee
16.42: M.I.C.E. Quotient, After the Fact
16.41: Middles and Conflicts with M.I.C.E. Structure
16.40: Nesting Threads in the M.I.C.E. Quotient
16.39: Deep Dive into “Event”
16.38: Deep Dive into “Character”
16.37: Deep Dive Into “Inquiry”
16.36: Deep Dive into “Milieu”
16.35: What is the M.I.C.E. Quotient?
16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes
16.33: Tell, Don’t Show
16.32: First Page Fundamentals—THE KILLING FLOOR, by Lee Childs
16.31: First Page Fundamentals—MOBY DICK
16.30: First Page Fundamentals—THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
16.29: Building Trust
16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes
16.27: Nobody Wants to Read a Book
16.26: Working With Teams
16.25: Breaking Into Game Writing
16.24: Worldbuilding for Games
BONUS EPISODE! 2021 WXR Early-Bird Announcement
16.23: Rules and Mechanics
16.22: Scenes and Set Pieces
16.21: Player Characters
16.20: Branching Narratives
16.19: Intro to Roleplaying Games
16.18: Poetry and the Fantastic
16.17: The Time To Rhyme
16.16: Poetic Structure: Part II
16.15: Poetic Structure, Part I
16.14: Poetic Language
16.13: Day Brain vs. Night Brain
16.12 : Singing Versus Speaking
16.11: What is Poetry?
16.10: Paying it Forward, with Kevin J. Anderson
16.9: Crossing The Revenue Streams
16.8: Smart Promotion
16.7: To Series, or Not to Series
16.6: Building Your Brand
16.5: Pros and Contracts
16.4: Networking
16.3: Publishing Pitfalls
16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends
16.01: Your Career is Your Business
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
15.51: Feedback—When to Listen, and When to Ignore, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
15.50: Juggling Ensembles
15.49: Maintaining Passion for a Story, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
15.48: Deliberate Discomfort, Part Two
15.47: Worldbuilding Science Fiction, with Cory Doctorow
15.46: Crafting Chinese-American Characters
15.45: Worldbuilding Fantasy, with Patrick Rothfuss
15.44: Rebooting a Career
15.43: Audiobook Narration, with Bruce D Richardson
15.42: Writing The End
15.41: Researching the FCK out of Things, with Cory Doctorow
15.40: Researching for Writing the Other
15.39: Translation, with special guest Alex Shvartsman
15.38: Depicting Religions That Are Not Your Own
15.37: Writing Under Deadlines
15.36: Collaboration, with Shannon and Dean Hale
15.35: Tools for Writing and Worldbuilding, with Erin Roberts
15.34: Writing Deliberate Discomfort
15.33: The Long, Dark Second Act of the Soul
15.32: Short Story Markets
15.31: The Agent in the Room
15.30: Write What You Want To Know, with Laurell K. Hamilton
15.29: Barbie Pre-Writing, with Janci Patterson and Megan Walker
15.28: Small Evils
15.27: Alternate History, with Eric Flint
15.26: Taking the Chance, with David Weber
15.25: Using the MICE Quotient for Conflict
15.24: Keeping it Fresh, with Jim Butcher
15.23: Serialization
15.22 Writing For Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale
15.21: Writing About Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale
15.20: Mental Wellness and Writing
15.19: As You Know, This Episode Is About Exposition
15.18: Finding a Community, with Shauna Hoffman
15.17: Asexual Representation
15.16: Balancing Plot and Character
15.15: Dialog
15.14: Agent Query Trenches
15.13: Using Elections in Stories
15.12: Writing the Other—Being an Ally
15.11: Digital is Different, with Cory Doctorow
15.10: Evaluating Ideas
15.09: Choose Your Own Adventurous Publishing Path
15.08: Q&A on a Ship
15.07: Creating Chapters
15.06: Prose and Cons, with Patrick Rothfuss
15.05: Setting Goals for Your Career
15.04: Revision, with Patrick Rothfuss
15.03: Self Publishing
15.02: Writing Between the Lines
15.01: Evolution of a Career
14.52: Game Mastering and Collaborative Storytelling, with Natasha Ence
14.51: A Farewell to Worldbuilding
14.50: Write What You… No.
14.49: Customs and Mores
14.48: How to Practice Worldbuilding
14.47: Writing Characters With Physical Disabilities
14.46: Unusual Resources
14.45: Economics
14.44: Realism vs. Rule-of-Cool
14.43: Sequencing Your Career Genome
14.42: Alternate History
14.41: History
14.40: Deep vs. Wide
14.39: Positioning Your Book in the Marketplace
14.38: Volunteer Opportunities for Writers, with Jared Quan
14.37: Outlandish Impossibilities
14.36: Languages and Naming
14.35: What You Leave Out
14.34: Author Branding
14.33: Writing Imperfect Worlds
Worldbuilding Gender Roles
14.31: Cultural Setting as Conflict
14.30: Eating Your Way to Better Worldbuilding
14.29: Field Research
14.28: Warfare and Weaponry
14.27: Natural Setting as Conflict
14.26: Lessons from Aristotle, with Rob Kimbro
14.25: Choosing Your Agent
14.24: Political Intrigue
14.23: Governments Large and Small
14.22: Characters out of Their Depth
14.21: Writing The Other — Yes, You Can!
14.20: Allegory in Fiction
14.19: Religion and Ritual
14.18: Setting as Theme
14.17: It’s Like “Car Talk” meets “Welcome To Nightvale”
14.16: Your Setting is a Telegraph
14.15: Technology
14.14: When To Tell
WX 14.13: Obstacles vs. Complications
14.12: Writing The Other — Latinx Representation
14.11: Magic Without Rules
14.10: Magic Systems
14.9: Showing Off
14.8: Worldbuilding Q&A #1
14.7: How Weird is Too Weird?
14.6: Fantasy and Science Fiction Races
14.5: Viewpoint as Worldbuilding
14.04: Writing the Other—Bisexual Characters
14.03: World of Hats
14.02: Geography and Biomes
14.01: Worldbuilding Begins! Up Front, or On the Fly?
13.52: Working Dad is a Spaceman
13.51: Wrap-up on the Year of Character
13.50: What Writers Get Wrong, with Zoraida Córdova
13.49: How to Finish
13.48: Character Death and Plot Armor
13.47: Q&A on Fixing Characters
13.46: The Unsexy Side of Space, with Bart Smith and Ben Hewett
NaNoWriMo 2018 Bonus Episode, with Mercedes Lackey
13.45: Next Level Narration
NaNoWriMo 2018 Mini-Episode 2
13.44: Alien Characters
NaNoWriMo 2018 Mini-Episode 1
13.43: Characters Who Are Smarter Than You Are
13.42: Writing Excuses Talks to an Astronaut, with Special Guest Kjell Lindgren
13.41: Fixing Character Problems, Part II
13.40: Fixing Character Problems, Part I
13.39: What Writers Get Wrong, With Wendy Tolliver
13.38: How to Find and Use Alpha Readers
13.37: What Writers Get Wrong, with J.Y. Yang
13.36: Confronting the Default
13.35: Cliché vs. Archetype
13.34: Q&A on Character Arcs
13.b1: Bonus Episode — Elephants and Death, with Lawrence Schoen
13.33: Reading Outside the Box
13.32: How To Handle Weighty Topics
13.31: Learning to Listen as a Writer
13.30: Project in Depth, THE CALCULATING STARS, with Kjell Lindgren
13.29: Iconic Heroes
13.28: What Writers Get Wrong, with Wildstyle
13.27: Characters as Foils
13.26: Character Relationships
13.25: Our Journey With Character
13.24: What Writers Get Wrong, with Piper, Aliette, and Wesley, with special guest Ken Liu
13.23: Internal Conflicts
13.22: Character Arcs
13.21: Q&A on Character Depth and Motivation
13.20: Fear and Writing, with Emma Newman
13.19: Backstories
13.18: Naturally Revealing Character Motivation
13.17: What Writers Get Wrong, with Jamahl Crouch
13.16: Avoiding Flat Characters
13.15: What Writers Get Wrong, with Mike Stop Continues
13.14: Character Nuance
13.13: Character Voice
13.12: Q&A on Heroes, Villains, and Main Characters
13.11: Writing Secondary Characters, with Charlaine Harris
13.10: Handling a Large Cast
13.9: Quick Characterization
13.8: Making Characters Distinctive
13.7: What Writers Get Wrong, with Lou Perry
13.6: External Conflicts for Characters
13.5: Villain, Antagonist, Obstacle
13.4: Protagonists Who Aren’t Sympathetic
13.3: What Writers Get Wrong, with Aliette de Bodard
13.2: Writing Active Characters
13.1: Hero, Protagonist, Main Character
12.53: Writing Excuses True Confessions
12.52: Cross-Genres as Gateways
12.51: Constructed Languages, with Dirk Elzinga
12.50: Form and Function
12.49: Non-linear Narratives
12.48: Q&A on Novels and Series, with Brian McClellan
12.47: Screenwriting and the Writers Room, with JD Payne
12.46: Reinventing Yourself
12.45: Structuring a Series
12.44: NaNoWriMo 2017 Primer
12.43: Serialized Storytelling
12.42: Adapting Your Stories for Game Play, with Alan Bahr
12.41: Raising the Stakes
12.40: Structuring a Novel
12.39: Q&A on Short(er) Fiction
12.38: What Do Editors Really Want, with Toni Weisskopf and Cat Rambo
12.37: Subplots
12.36: Structuring a Mid-Length Piece
12.35: Short Fiction Markets, with Spencer Ellsworth and guest host Beth Meacham
12.34: Fulfilling the Reader’s Fantasy, with Brian McClellan
12.33: How to be Brief, Yet Powerful
12.32: Structuring a Short Piece
12.31: What Makes a Good Monster, with Courtney Alameda
12.30: Tools for Writers
12.29: “Oh Crap, the Cops are Here!” with Joe McKinney
12.28: Trimming and Expanding
12.27: Choosing a Length
12.26: Q&A on Outlining and Discovery Writing
12.25: Hiring an Editor, with Callie Stoker
12.24: Creating Great Outlines
12.23: Proposals, Pitches, and Queries
12.22: Hybrid Outlining and Discovery Writing
12.21: Narrative Bumper Pool, with Bill Fawcett and Carrie Patel
12.20: Retrofitting Structure into a First Draft
12.19: Structure on the Fly
12.18: Gendered Dialect, with J.R. Johansson
12.17: Q&A on Style, Diction, and Paragraphing
12.16: Writing Crime Fiction with Brian Keene
12.15: Pacing With Chapters
12.14: Controlling Pacing with Structure
12.13: Beautiful Prose, Purple Prose
12.12: Words as Words, with Linda Addison
12.11: Diction
12.10: Developing Your Own, Personal Style
12.9: Q&A on Viewpoint
12.8 Short Stories as Exploration, with Tananarive Due
12.7: Description Through the Third Person Lens
12.6: Variations on Third Person
12.5: Literary Fiction
12.4: Hybrid Viewpoints
12.3: Project in Depth, “Risk Assessment,” by Sandra Tayler
12.2: How to Nail Character Voice in First Person
12.1: Variations on First Person
11.52: Elemental Ensemble Q&A, With Claudia Gray
11.51: Ensemble as a Sub-Genre, with Lynne M. Thomas
11.50: Hand-Selling Your Book to Potential Readers, with Michael R. Underwood
11.49: Elemental Ensemble, with Michael Damien Thomas
11.Bonus-04: Fantasy Food, with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
11.48: Elemental Issue Q&A, with DongWon Song
11.47: Issue as a Subgenre, with Steven Barnes
11.46: Colonialism, with Steven Barnes, Tempest Bradford, DongWon Song, and Shveta Thakrar
11.45: Elemental Issue, with Desiree Burch
11.Bonus-03: Some Books Have Maps in the Front, with Maurice Broaddus, Mur Lafferty, and James Sutter
11.Bonus-02: Horrifying the Children, with Darren Shan
11.44: Project in Depth, GHOST TALKERS, by Mary Robinette Kowal
11.43: Elemental Drama Q&A, with Tananarive Due
11.42: Elemental Drama as a Sub-Genre
11.Bonus-01: Characterization and Differentiation, with Robin Hobb
11.41: The Editor’s Wish List, with Navah Wolfe
11.40: Elemental Drama
11.39: Elemental Relationship Q&A, with Greg van Eekhout
11.38: The Elemental Relationship as a Sub-Genre
11.37: Casting Your Book, with Gama Martinez
11.36: The Elemental Relationship
11.35: Elemental Humor Q&A with Victoria Schwab
11.34: Humor as a Sub-Genre
11.33: Crossover Fiction, with Victoria Schwab
11.32: The Element of Humor
11.31: Futurism, with Trina Marie Phillips
11.30: Elemental Thriller Q&A
11.29: Elemental Thriller as a Subgenre
11.28: Impostor Syndrome, with Alyssa Wong
11.27: The Elemental Thriller
11.26: Elemental Mystery Q&A
11.25: Elemental Mystery is Everywhere
11.24: Stakes!
11.23: The Element of Mystery
11.22: Examining Unconscious Biases, with Shannon Hale
11.21: Q&A on Elemental Horror, with Steve Diamond
11.20: Horror as a Subgenre
11.19: Fashion for Writers, with Rebecca McKinney
11.18: Elemental Horror
11.17: Elemental Adventure Q&A
11.16: Adventure as a Subgenre
11.15: The Environment, with L.E. Modessit, Jr.
11.14: The Element of Adventure
11.13: Elemental Idea Q&A
11.12: Idea as Subgenre, With Nancy Fulda
11.11: Self Publishing in 2016, with Michaelbrent Collings
11.10: Idea, as Genre, with Nancy Fulda
11.09: Q&A on the Element of Wonder
11.08: Wonder as a Subgenre
11.07: The Convention Survival Kit, with Gail Carriger
11.06: The Element of Wonder
11.05: Writing and World Building for Role Playing Games
11.04: Newton’s Laws of Writing
11.03: Layering The Elemental Genres
11.2: How To Get The Most Out Of A Conference, with Kathy Chung
Writing Excuses 11.1: Introduction to Elemental Genre
Writing Excuses 10.52: Moving On, with Ellen Kushner
Writing Excuses 10.51: Q&A on Showing Your Work, with Daniel José Older
Writing Excuses 10.50: How to Hand-Sell Your Manuscript to Agents and Editors, with Michael Underwood and Marco Palmieri
Writing Excuses 10.49: What Do I Do With This Thing Now?
Writing Excuses 10.48: Project in Depth, The Devil’s Only Friend
Writing Excuses 10.47: Q&A on Revision
Writing Excuses 10.46: How Do I Make This Pretty?
Writing Excuses 10.45: Q&A at the GenCon Writing Symposium, with Kameron Hurley, James L. Sutter, and Michael Underwood
Writing Excuses 10.44: How Do I Fix What is Broken?
Writing Excuses 10.43: Q&A on Endings, with Delia Sherman
Writing Excuses 10.42: How In The World Do I Tie All This Together?
Writing Excuses 10.41: Your Character’s Moral Pendulum
Writing Excuses 10.40: What’s the Difference Between Ending and Stopping?
Writing Excuses 10.39: Q&A on Plot Twists with Kevin J. Anderson
Writing Excuses 10.38: How Does Context Shape Dialog?
Writing Excuses 10.37: Being a Good Panelist and a Great Moderator, with Susan J. Morris and Marc Tassin
Writing Excuses 10.36: How Does Context Shape Plot Twists?
Writing Excuses 10.35: Breaking In, With Charlie N. Holmberg
Writing Excuses 10.34: Q&A on Pacing
Writing Excuses 10.33: Combat, with Marie Brennan
Writing Excuses 10.32: How Do I Control the Speed of the Story?
Writing Excuses 10.31: How Do I Control the Reader’s Sense of Progress?
Writing Excuses 10.30: Q&A on Middles, with Marie Brennan
Writing Excuses 10.29: Why Should My Characters Fail Spectacularly?
Writing Excuses 10.28: Polytheism in Fiction, with Marie Brennan
Writing Excuses 10.27: Why Can’t I Just Jump to the Ending?
Writing Excuses 10.26: Q&A on Scenes and Description
Writing Excuses 10.25: What Makes a Scene?
Writing Excuses 10.24: Hooking Younger Readers
Writing Excuses 10.23: Can You Tell Me How To Show?
Writing Excuses 10.22: Project-in-Depth—Of Noble Family
Writing Excuses 10.21: Q&A on World Building
Writing Excuses 10.20: How Do I Write a Story, Not an Encyclopedia?
Writing Excuses 10.19: Intrigue
Writing Excuses 10.18: Build an Entire World? Are You Crazy?
Writing Excuses 10.17: Q&A on Beginnings
Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space?
Writing Excuses 10.15: Worldbuilding Wilderness with Wes Chu
Writing Excuses 10.14: How Much of the Beginning Needs to Come First?
Writing Excuses 10.13: Where is My Story Going?
Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu
Writing Excuses 10.11: Project In Depth: “Parallel Perspectives”
Writing Excuses 10.10: Q&A with the I Ching
Writing Excuses 10.9: Where is My Story Coming From?
Writing Excuses 10.8: Q&A on Character
Writing Excuses 10.7: Who Are All These People?
Writing Excuses 10.6: The Worldbuilding Revolves Around Me (“The Magical 1%”)
Writing Excuses 10.5: What Do You Mean My Main Character is Boring?
Writing Excuses 10.4: Q&A on Ideas
2015 Hugo Award Eligibility – SHADOWS BENEATH
Writing Excuses 10.3: Lovecraftian Horror
Writing Excuses 10.2: I Have an Idea; What Do I Do Now?
Writing Excuses 10.1: Seriously, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Writing Excuses 9.54: Capstone to Season 9
Writing Excuses 9.53: Writing For Fun
Writing Excuses Season 9.52: From the Page to the Stage
Writing Excuses 9.51: Q&A At The Retreat
Writing Excuses 9.50: Writing for the Enfranchised Reader
Writing Excuses 9.48: Neurobolics of Characters
Writing Excuses 9.49: Hiding the Open Grave
Writing Excuses 9.47: Conversation With a Bookseller
Writing Excuses 9.46: Disability in Narrative
Writing Excuses 9.45: Tools for Writing from Oral Storytelling
Writing Excuses 9.44: Getting in the Writer’s Mindset with Peter Beagle
Writing Excuses 9.43: Writing Mysteries
Writing Excuses 9.42: The Convention-Author Relationship, with Deirdre Saoirse Moen
Registration is open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat
Writing Excuses 9.41: Fan Writing, with Christopher J. Garcia
Writing Excuses 9.40: Understanding Royalties, with Paul Stevens
Writing Excuses 9.39: Publicity for Books
Writing Excuses 9.38: Q&A at Westercon
9.37: Training A Critique Group, with Kathleen Dalton Woodbury
Writing Excuses 9.36: Writing Instruction
Writing Excuses 9.35: What to do when you disagree with your editor
Writing Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education
Writing Excuses 9.33: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 9.32: Adjusting Character Proactivity
Writing Excuses 9.31: Critiquing “An Honest Death”
Writing Excuses 9.30: Critiquing A Fire in the Heavens
Writing Excuses 9.29: Part 2 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk
Writing Excuses 9.28: Part 1 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk
Writing Excuses 9.27: Pre-writing
Writing Excuses 9.26: Adjusting Character Competence
Writing Excuses 9.25: Adjusting Character Sympathy
Writing Excuses 9.24: Side Quests
Writing Excuses 9.23: World Building Without Breaking Viewpoint
Writing Excuses 9.22: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 9.21: Sanderson’s 3rd Law
Writing Excuses 9.20: Creator vs Creation
Writing Excuses 9.19: Showing Emotion
Writing Excuses 9.18: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 9.17: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 9.16: Coming up with a New Ending Halfway Through
Writing Excuses 9.15: Becoming a Writer—Full Disclosure
Writing Excuses 9.14: How to have an Opinion as a Public Figure
Writing Excuses 9.13: Three Pronged Character Development
Writing Excuses 9.12: Microcasting! Twice in a row!
Writing Excuses 9.11: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 9.10: Engaging Characters
Writing Excuses 9.9: What to do When Truth is Stranger than Fiction
Writing Excuses 9.8: When is your Handwavium Good Enough?
Writing Excuses 9.7: Last Pass Revisions with Eric James Stone
Writing Excuses 9.6: The Experience of Time
Writing Excuses 9.5: Hijacking the Knowledge You Already Have, with Mette Ivie Harrison
Writing Excuses 9.4: Artificial Intelligence with Nancy Fulda
Writing Excuses 9.3: Character Perception vs. Narrative Perception with Nancy Fulda
Writing Excuses 9.2: Hard Science Fiction with Eric James Stone
Writing Excuses 9.1: Chronology of a Book Deal with Eric James Stone
Writing Excuses 8.52: You Think You Don’t Have Time to Write, with Mette Ivie Harrison
Writing Excuses 8.51: Creative non-fiction with Mette Ivie Harrison
Writing Excuses 8.50: Q&A with Mercedes Lackey
Writing Excuses 8.49: Hard Social Science Fiction with Joel Shepherd
Writing Excuses 8.48: Long-Form Storytelling with Sam Logan
Writing Excuses 8.47: Roguishness with Scott Lynch
Writing Excuses 8.46: Editing with Aeryn Rudel
Writing Excuses 8.45: Gencon Q&A With Wesley Chu
Writing Excuses 8.44: Talking Publishing with Tom Doherty
Writing Excuses 8.43: Realistic Melee Fighting with Wesley Chu
Writing Excuses 8.42: The Internal Heckler vs. The Internal Editor
Writing Excuses 8.41: Out of Excuses Retreat Microcasting
Writing Excuses 8.40: Publishing with Bill Schafer
Writing Excuses 8.39: Dystopian Fiction with Cherie Priest
Writing Excuses 8.38:Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #2
Writing Excuses 8.37: When Fail Happens in Your Career
Writing Excuses 8.36: Transitioning Characters in Prominence
Writing Excuses 8.35: Digging Yourself Out of Holes with Jeph Jacques
Writing Excuses 8.34: Survivorship Bias
Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable
Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 8.31: Combining Dialogue, Blocking, and Description
Writing Excuses 8.30: Writing Reluctant Characters
Writing Excuses 8.29: Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #1
Writing Excuses 8.28: Your First Contract
Writing Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns
Writing Excuses 8.26: Space Opera
Writing Excuses 8.25: Middle Grade with E.J. Patten
Writing Excuses 8.24: Project in Depth–Kiss Me Twice
Writing Excuses 8.23: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 8.22: Pre-writing with E.J. Patten
Writing Excuses 8.21: What the Avengers did Right
Writing Excuses 8.20: The Short Story, with Mary Robinette Kowal
Writing Excuses 8.19: Writing and Convention Culture
Writing Excuses 8.18: Blocking
Writing Excuses 8.17: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 8.16: Brainstorming with Brandon Again
Writing Excuses 8.15: Narrative Rhythm
Writing Excuses 8.14: Brainstorming with Brandon
Writing Excuses 8.13: Fake It Till You Make it
Writing Excuses 8.12: Project in Depth — Deus ex Nauseum
Writing Excuses 8.11: Abnormal Psychology
Writing Excuses 8.10: Brainstorming With Howard Again
Writing Excuses 8.9: Brainstorming with Howard
Writing Excuses 8.8: Writing and Personal Health
Writing Excuses 8.7: Cliffhangers and Icebergs with Robison Wells
Writing Excuses 8.6: Retellings and Adaptations
Writing Excuses 8.5: Breaking the Rules
Writing Excuses 8.4: Side-Character Arcs
Writing Excuses 8.3: Pets
Writing Excuses 8.2: Hero’s Journey
Writing Excuses 8.1: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 7.54: Four Ways the Industry is Changing
Writing Excuses 7.53: Secret History
Writing Excuses 7.52: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 7.51: Brainstorming with Mary
Writing Excuses 7.50: Outlining the Mary Way
Writing Excuses 7.49: Beginnings Revisited
NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Episode 4, with Mary & Brandon
Writing Excuses 7.48: Pixar Rules for Writing a Compelling Story
NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Episode 3, with Howard
Writing Excuses 7.47: Raising the Stakes
NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Mini-Episode 2, with Dan & Rob
Writing Excuses 7.46: Project in Depth The Emperor’s Soul
NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Mini-Episode 1, with Brandon & Mary
Writing Excuses 7.45: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 7.44: Writing for Comics with Jim Zub
Writing Excuses 7.43: Tie-in Fantasy Fiction with James L Sutter
Writing Excuses 7.42: Contemporary YA Fiction
Writing Excuses 7.41: Seven-Point Story Structure
Writing Excuses 7.40: Writing the Other
Writing Excuses 7.39: Death
Writing Excuses 7.38: Writing Love Scenes
Writing Excuses 7.37: Pantsing
Writing Excuses 7.35: Brainstorming with Dan
Writing Excuses 7.36: Writing Gaming Fiction with Monte Cook
Writing Excuses 7.34: How to Start the Next One
Writing Excuses 7.33: Authentic Emotion
Writing Excuses 7.32: Astronomy 101 for Writers
Writing Excuses 7.31: Project in Depth — Hollow City
Writing Excuses 7.30: Micocasting…Again!
Writing Excuses 7.29: The Villain Problem
Writing Excuses 7.28: Project in Depth– Glamour in Glass
Writing Excuses 7.27: The Problem of Originality
Writing Excuses 7.26: Q&A at UVU part 2
Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers
Writing Excuses 7.24: Project in Depth — Way of Kings
Writing Excuses 7.23: Time Travel
Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 7.21: Project In Depth — Force Multiplication
Writing Excuses 7.20: Cathartic Horror
Writing Excuses 7.19: Q&A at UVU
Writing Excuses 7.18: Discovering your Voice
Writing Excuses 7.17: Guns and Fiction
Writing Excuses 7.16: Continuing with Mary’s Outline
Writing Excuses 7.15: Editing Mary’s Outline
Writing Excuses 7.14: Writing Excuses
Writing Excuses 7.13: Man Vs. Nature
Writing Excuses 7.12: Writing the Omniscient Viewpoint
Writing Excuses 7.11: More Microcasting
Writing Excuses 7.10: Importance of Criticism, with David Brin
Writing Excuses 7.9: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 7.8: The City as a Character
Writing Excuses 7.7: Historical Fantasy
Writing Excuses 7.6: Behind the Marshmallow
Writing Excuses 7.5: Sensory Writing
Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity
Writing Excuses 7.3: Fauna and Flora
Writing Excuses 7.2: World Building Flora and Fauna
Writing Excuses 7.1 When Good Characters Go Bad
Writing Excuses 6.30: Help! I Can’t End My Book!
Writing Excuses 6.29: Character Foils
Writing Excuses 6.28: Interstitial Art
Writing Excuses 6.27: Fantasy Setting Yard Sale
NaNoWriMo Pep-talk from Howard
Writing Excuses 6.26: Mystery Plotting
NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Dan
Writing Excuses 6.25: When Characters do Dumb Things
NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Mary
Writing Excuses 6.24: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Brandon
Writing Excuses 6.23: Pigeon Holes
Writing Excuses 6.22: Continuing Education for Writers
Writing Excuses 6.21: Brainstorming From Story Seeds
Writing Excuses 6.20: Endings
Writing Excuses 6.19: Pitching
6.18: The Hollywood Formula, with Lou Anders
Writing Excuses 6.17: Writing Assistants
Writing Excuses 6.16: Gender Roles–Black, White, and Gray
Writing Excuses 6.15: Writing Other Cultures
Writing Excuses 6.14: Suspension of Disbelief
Writing Excuses 6.13: World Building Communications Technology
Writing Excuses 6.12: Revising For Description
Writing Excuses 6.11: Making Your Descriptions Do More Than One Thing
Writing Excuses 6.10: Scott Card’s M.I.C.E. Quotient
Writing Excuses 6.9: Microcasting 2 Electric Boogaloo
Writing Excuses 6.8: What an Agent Does
Writing Excuses 6.7: Brainstorming a Cyberpunk Story
Writing Excuses 6.6: Cyberpunk
Writing Excuses 6.5: Query Letters
Writing Excuses 6.4: Microcasting
Writing Excuses 6.3: Professional Organizations
Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations
Writing Excuses 6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?
Writing Excuses 5.39: Filking and Writing Music with Tom Smith
Writing Excuses 5.38: Dialog with John Scalzi
Writing Excuses 5.37: Parody and Satire with Jim Hines
Writing Excuses 5.36: Non-Traditional Settings with Saladin Ahmed
Writing Excuses 5.35: Brainstorming Urban Fantasy
Writing Excuses 5.34: Story Bibles
Writing Excuses on the 2011 Hugo Ballot
Writing Excuses 5.33: Alpha Readers
Writing Excuses 5.32: Urban Fantasy
Writing Excuses 5.31: Writing Romance
Writing Excuses 5.30: Writing Action
Writing Excuses 5.29: Rewriting
Writing Excuses 5.28: E-publishing
Writing Excuses 5.27: Perseverance, with Sherrilyn Kenyon
Writing Excuses 5.26: Scared for the Characters
Writing Excuses 5.25: Writing in Other People’s Universes
Writing Excuses 5.24: The Author’s Responsibility to the Reader
Writing Excuses 5.23: Life Day!
Writing Excuses 5.22: Film Considerations
Writing Excuses 5.21: Alternate History
Writing Excuses 5.20: More Dialog Exercises
Writing Excuses 5.19: Fulfilling Promises to Your Readers
Writing Excuses 5.18: Offending Your Readers
Writing Excuses 5.17: Dialog Exercises
Writing Excuses 5.16: Critiquing Dan’s First Novel
Writing Excuses 5.12: Time Travel!
Writing Excuses 5.15: Steampunk with Scott Westerfeld
Writing Excuses 5.14: Visual Components of Novels with Scott Westerfeld
Writing Excuses 5.13: Writing the Second Book
Writing Excuses 5.12: The Secret of Lincoln’s Gold
Writing Excuses 5.11: MicroPodcasting 2
Writing Excuses 5.10: John Brown and the Creative Process
Writing Excuses Bonus Episode! Voting in the Service of a Dark God
Writing Excuses 5.9: Character Arcs
Writing Excuses 5.8: The Excuses You’re Out Of
Writing Excuses 5.7: Avoiding Melodrama
Writing Excuses 5.6.01: Flash Fiction
Writing Excuses 5.6: MicroPodcasts
Writing Excuses 5.5: Writing the Unfamiliar
Parsec Acceptance Speech 2010
Writing Excuses 5.4: Creating Suspense
Writing Excuses 5.3: First Person Viewpoint
WE 5.2: Character Quirks
WE 5.1: Third Person Limited
Writing Excuses 4.34: Q&A at Dragons & Fairy Tales
Writing Excuses 4.33: Trunk Novels
Writing Excuses 4.32: First Paragraphs
Writing Excuses 4.31: Line Editing Dialog
Writing Excuses 4.30: Worldbuilding the Future
Writing Excuses 4.29: Line Editing
Writing Excuses 4.28: Brainstorming The End and Working Backwards
Writing Excuses 4.27: Major Overhauls to Broken Stories
Writing Excuses 4.26: Avoiding Stilted Dialog
Writing Excuses 4.25: Mating Plumage
Writing Excuses 4.24: Random Storytelling
Writing Excuses 4.23: How to Break In to the Young Adult Market
Writing Excuses 4.22: Q&A with L.E. Modesitt, Jr
Writing Excuses 4.21: Writing Practical Fantasy
Writing Excuses 4.20: Strategies for Getting Published
Writing Excuses 4.19: Discovery Writing
Writing Excuses 4.18: How to Steal for Fun and Profit
Writing Excuses 4.17: Living with the Artist
Writing Excuses 4.16: Breaking the Fourth Wall
Writing Excuses 4.15: Visual Components of Storytelling
Writing Excuses 4.14: Brainstorming Science Ideas
Writing Excuses 4.13: Juggling Multiple Viewpoints
Writing Excuses 4.12: Writing An Epic
Writing Excuses 4.11: Brainstorming From Headlines
Writing Excuses 4.10: Writing for Young Adults
Writing Excuses 4.9: How to Write Men, with Jessica Day George
Writing Excuses 4.8: Working with Editors
Writing Excuses 4.7: Q&A with James Dashner
Writing Excuses 4.6: Pacing with James Dashner
Writing Excuses 4.5: Roleplaying Games as Tools for Story Telling
Writing Excuses 4.4: Agents. Do you need one?
Writing Excuses 4.3: How to Manage Your Influences
Writing Excuses 4.2: Heroism
Writing Excuses 4.1: Types of Humor
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 32: Collaboration
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 31: Tragedy
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 29: Antiheroes
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 30: Unreliable Narrators
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 28: World-Building Gender Roles
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 27: Mixing Humor with Drama and Horror
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 26: NaNoWriMo
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 25: The Business of Writing Comics
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 24: Writing Comics with Jake Black
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 23: How to Write Without Twists
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 22: Idea to Story
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 21: Pitfalls of Self Publishing with Larry Correia
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 20: Plot- vs. Character-Driven Fiction
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 19: Emotion in Fiction with John Brown
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 18: How To Not Repeat Yourself
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 17: Characters & Worldbuilding Q&A with Mary Robinette Kowal
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 16: The Anti-Mary Sue Episode
Writing Excuses: Parsec Award Acceptance Speech
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 15: Writing Process Q&A, with Mary Robinette Kowal
3.14: The Four Principles of Puppetry, with Mary Robinette Kowal
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 13: Dialects and In-World Jargon
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 12: Subplots
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 11: Trimming
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 10: The Dos and Don’ts of Attending Cons
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 9: Conventions You Should Be Attending
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 8: What Star Trek Did Right
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 7: Genre Blending
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 6: Dramatic Breaks
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 5: How to Take Criticism
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 3: Stumping Howard at Conduit
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 2: Keeping it Real with Aprilynne Pike
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 4: Non Linear Story Telling
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 1: World-Building History
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 33: How To Not Be Overwhelmed
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 32: The Most Important Thing Dan Learned In The Last Year
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 31: The Most Important Thing Brandon Learned In The Last Year
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 30: The Most Important Thing Howard Learned In The Last Year
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 29: How not to end your book
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 28: Applying Critical Reading: “Watchmen”
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 27: Reading Critically
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 26: How Publishing is Changing in the new Century
Writing Excuses Episode 632: Now that we’ve got time travel what do we do with it?
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 25: The Seven Deadly Sins of Slush Stories
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 24: Writing Habits and Q&A with Tracy Hickman
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 23: Avoiding the Cliché with Tracy Hickman
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 22: Marketing 201, Branding for Authors
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 21: Fight Scenes
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 20: Marketing 101 for Creators
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 19: Do Creative Writing Classes Help
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 18: World Building Governments
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 17: Website Marketing for Authors
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 16: Non-Human Races
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 15: Knowing When To Begin
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 14: Writing Habits
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 13: Violence
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 12: Theme
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 11: Talking Publishing and Writing with Dave Wolverton
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 10: The Boring Parts
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 9: Romance, with Dave Wolverton
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 8: The Three Act Structure with Bob Defendi
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 7: Using Writing Formulas with Bob Defendi
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 6: Endings
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 5: Writing Groups
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 4:View point, Plot Twists and Being a Part-Time Writer with Eric James Stone
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 3: Characters with Brandon Mull
Writing Season 2 Episode 2: How to Write for Children with Brandon Mull
Writing Excuses Season 2 Bonus Episode 1: Live at the Mistborn 3 Release
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 1: Q&A on Setting and Characters at Mountain Con with John Brown
Writing Excuses Episode 35: Voice, Tone and Style
Writing Excuses Episode 34: What The Dark Knight Did Right
Writing Excuses Episode 33: Side Characters
Writing Excuses Episodes 32: Talking Exposition with Patrick Rothfuss
Writing Excuses Episode 31: Talking RPG and Game Writing with Steve Jackson
Writing Excuses Episode 30: Talking Revision with Moshe Feder
Writing Excuses Episode 29: Talking Publishing with Lou Anders
Writing Excuses Episode 28: Writing for Webcomics with Phil and Kaja Foglio
Writing Excuses Episode 27: World-Building Religion
Writing Excuses Episode 26: Horror
Writing Excuses Episode 25: Viewpoint and Tense Part 2
Writing Excuses Episode 24: Research
Writing Excuses Episode 23: Viewpoint
Writing Excuses Episode 22: Doing The Unpopular
Writing Excuses Episode 21: Humor
Writing Excuses Episode 20: More Q&A from Conduit
Writing Excuses Episode 19: Plot Twists
Writing Excuses Episode 18: Q&A at Conduit
Writing Excuses Episode 17: This Sucks and I’m a Horrible Writer
Writing Excuses Episode 16: Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard
Writing Excuses Episode 15: Costs and Ramifications of Magic
Writing Excuses Episode 14: Magic Systems and their Rules
Writing Excuses Episode 13: Submitting to Editors Part 2
Writing Excuses Episode 12: Submitting to Editors Part 1
Writing Excuses Episode 11: The Business of Writing
Writing Excuses Episode 10: Pacing
Writing Excuses Episode 9: Sci-Fi Sub-Genre
Writing Excuses Episode 8: Sci-Fi Genre
Writing Excuses Bonus Episode 2: Rules of Writing Excuses
Writing Excuses Episode 7: Villains
Writing Excuses Episode 6: Flaws vs Handicaps
Writing Excuses Bonus Episode 1: Remembering Gary Gygax
Writing Excuses Episode 5: Heroes and Protagonists
Writing Excuses Episode 4: Beginnings
Writing Excuses Episode 3: Killing your Darlings