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 20 hours 7 minutes
episode 1: 15.01: Evolution of a Career
Your Hosts: Dan, DongWon, Mary Robinette, and Howard - Season 15 is going to be a bit broader than the previous seasons have, at least in the abstract. We're going to focus on your questions. In this episode we tackle the topic that dominates our coll...
episode 2: 15.02: Writing Between the Lines
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard - Victoria Schwab, who also writes as V.E. Schwab, joins us this year, and in this episode she helps us cover that deep concept of "theme," and how we as authors can state our themes without coming straig...
episode 3: 15.03: Self Publishing
Your Hosts: Howard, with special guests Victorine Lieske, Tamie Dearen, Bridget E. Baker, and Nandi Taylor - Howard leads this discussion with four guests who are doing well with self publishing. They share some numbers with us,
episode 4: 15.04: Revision, with Patrick Rothfuss
Your Hosts: Dan, Howard, and Mary Robinette, with special guest Patrick Rothfuss - We begin our discussion of revision by addressing a question we hear a lot: How do you know what needs to be changed? We talk about our various techniques for getting d...
episode 5: 15.05: Setting Goals for Your Career
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard - What kind of career goal-setting do you do? We had a discussion in this vein with DongWon a few weeks ago, but neither Brandon nor Victoria participated then, so it's worth revisiting. -
episode 6: 15.06: Prose and Cons, with Patrick Rothfuss
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, with special guest Patrick Rothfuss - How do you write beautiful prose? How do you set about telling a story with words that sing (and dance, and tell jokes) instead of just conveying information in word-sized ...
episode 7: 15.07: Creating Chapters
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard - How do you create chapters? What are the rules for carving your manuscript into numbered chunks? Is chaptering part of your outline, is it something you discover while you write,
episode 8: 15.08: Q&A on a Ship
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, DongWon, and Howard - At WXR 19 we recorded live, and took audience questions aboard the ship. Here they are! (You'll have to listen to the episode for the answers.) What have you learned in the past year that has...
episode 9: 15.09: Choose Your Own Adventurous Publishing Path
Your Hosts: Dan, DongWon, Piper, and Howard - "Should I go self-pub? Should I go traditional? Can I do both? How do I decide where my book fits?" - In this episode we'll cover these, and many more questions as best we're able. -
episode 10: 15.10: Evaluating Ideas
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard - We've talked in the past about how ideas are cheap, and that it's execution upon those ideas which is what really matters. In this episode we'll talk about how we evaluate things over there on the side ...