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: 16.01: Your Career is Your Business
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon - Welcome to 2021, and Season 16 of Writing Excuses. This year we're dividing the year into "master classes" or "intensive courses." - We're kicking it off with Brandon's episodes,
episode 2: 16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon - It sounds like a mean thing to say, but it's not a wrong thing to say. A publisher is a corporation, and a corporation doesn't have friends. It has contractual relationships.
episode 3: 16.3: Publishing Pitfalls
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Howard, and Brandon - Erin Roberts joins us for our third installment in Brandon's business-of-writing series. In this episode we're covering pitfalls and common problems—including some predatory practices—for you to be on the l...
episode 4: 16.4: Networking
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Erin, Brandon, and Howard - Networking is an invaluable part of any business, and the business of writing is no exception. In this episode we'll talk about how to do it effectively, genuinely,
episode 5: 16.5: Pros and Contracts
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Brandon, and Erin - Here's our deep dive into the subject of contracts in the publishing business. We can only go so deep during a fifteen-minute episode, so we ran about twice as long as usual.
episode 6: 16.6: Building Your Brand
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, and Howard - Branding, in marketing terms for writers, is the process of establishing a recognizable identity—a brand— for you and your works in the marketplace of readers, and people who buy things for readers.
episode 7: 16.7: To Series, or Not to Series
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, Howard - Let's look a the business considerations of whether that thing you're writing is a standalone story, or part of a series. The factors are complex, and a single factor (like,
episode 8: 16.8: Smart Promotion
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, and Howard - Let's talk about how promote yourself and your work, and how to do it well. The tools we use for this continue to evolve, and in this discussion we'll cover things that have worked,
episode 9: 16.9: Crossing The Revenue Streams
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, and Howard - How many different ways can our writing earn money for us? What additional work, besides "just" writing, do we need to do in order to get that money? In this episode we discuss finding and managing multiple...
episode 10: 16.10: Paying it Forward, with Kevin J. Anderson
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard, with special guest Kevin J. Anderson - Kevin J. Anderson joins us to talk about how others have helped us in our careers, and how we might continue that tradition and help others. -