Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced format. A weekly podcast about the craft and business of writing.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 21 hours 2 minutes
episode 15: 17.15: Storytelling in the Footnotes
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler - You probably already know what footnotes are¹, but have you ever seen a story told through the footnotes²? It's similar to the story-within-a-story structure,
episode 14: 17.14: Structuring for Disordered or Order-less Reading Order
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler - Guest host Peng Shepherd leads our discussion of "order-less reading order" (after we get past the business of "having too much fun with the episode title").
episode 13: 17.13: Structuring Around a Thing
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler - Our exploration of sub- and micro-structures continues with guest host Peng Shepherd. This week we're talking about how a story can be structured around a "thing.
episode 12: 17.12: Structuring a Story Within a Story
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler - One common structure—both macro and micro—is the "story within a story," or "framing story" structure, and yet somehow we've never really explored it on Writing Excuses.
episode 11: 17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler - Guest host Peng Shepherd continues to lead our exploration of sub- and micro-structures by taking us into the scaffolding of in media res, flashbacks,
episode 10: 17.10: Structuring with Multiple POVs
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler - In our second micro-structure episode, Peng Shepherd leads us into an exploration of the ways in which the use of multiple point-of-view characters can create a framework ...
episode 9: 17.9: Let’s Talk About Structure
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler - We're beginning another eight-episode deep-dive series, and this time it's a fresh approach to story structure, led by our guest host Peng Shepherd. -
episode 8: 17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd - How do you translate things from the spark of inspiration into a work that someone else can consume? Like, instead of turning a movie into a book,
episode 7: 17.7: Dissecting Influence
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd - What are your influences? What pieces of art, music, literature, or other media have inspired you? In this episode we'll talk about making that inspiration deliberate,
episode 6: 17.6: Hitting Reset Without Getting Hit Back
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd - Oh no! You're in the middle of a thing (a novel, a series, a career) and you suddenly realize that the expectations you set early on are not the expectations you'll be meeting.