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 10: Writing Excuses 10.10: Q&A with the I Ching
Wesley Chu joins us for a literal shake-up of our structure for one episode. We had loads of fun with this one. - The I Ching is a collection of poems which you consult with numbered sticks. You ask a question, shake a random stick from the cup,
episode 11: Writing Excuses 10.11: Project In Depth: “Parallel Perspectives”
If you haven't yet read "Parallel Perspectives," from Schlock Mercenary: Massively Parallel, we have a PDF for you to download and read before you start listening to this episode. It's a 33mb file in a public DropBox folder. -
episode 12: Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu
Wes Chu joins us again for a Q&A about this month's topic: story structure! Here are the questions: Do you make a conscious decision about how to structure your story before you begin writing? Is it necessary to use multiple structures (three-act...
episode 13: Writing Excuses 10.13: Where is My Story Going?
Any discussion of story structure must necessarily take a look at that big, long bit between the beginning and the end, that piece where almost everything actually happens. In this episode we talk about the middles of stories,
episode 14: Writing Excuses 10.14: How Much of the Beginning Needs to Come First?
How do you know which bits of your story have to come first?
episode 15: Writing Excuses 10.15: Worldbuilding Wilderness with Wes Chu
Wes Chu, author and adventurer, recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and has some things to say about all the wilderness trekking that our characters do in the books we write, and how we often forget to say anything about sleeping on inclines,
episode 16: Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space?
Let's get that first page written in a way that will bring the reader to all the rest of the pages.
episode 17: Writing Excuses 10.17: Q&A on Beginnings
We've talked beginnings all month. Now we take your questions about them.
episode 18: Writing Excuses 10.18: Build an Entire World? Are You Crazy?
This one's for all you folks who like to do some world building on-the-fly.
episode 19: Writing Excuses 10.19: Intrigue
What's the difference between intrigue, suspense, and mystery? We talk about this, and then drill down on intrigue.