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.
https://redcircle.com/shows/writing-excuses2130
Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 20 hours 7 minutes
episode 1: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 1: World-Building History
Welcome to Season 3 of Writing Excuses! With eighteen hours and fourteen months of podcasting history behind us, it seems appropriate for us to talk about history, and how to write it. - We talk about the iceberg principle -- 90% of the history stuff ...
episode 2: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 2: Keeping it Real with Aprilynne Pike
This episode was recorded live at CONduit in Salt Lake City with special guest Aprilynne Pike. Our topic: How do we "keep it real" when writing speculative fiction? What does that even mean? - (Okay, it means making the stuff that exists in real life ...
episode 3: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 3: Stumping Howard at Conduit
Howard here... I've learned that it's a really bad idea to run out for a bio-break between podcasts. When I returned to the packed panel room I could tell that everyone's attitude towards me was subtly different.
episode 4: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 4: Non Linear Story Telling
Don't you just hate it when things unfold out of order? Why do writers do that? - We explain why they do it, and how they do it, and then we discuss how to avoid some common mistakes. Non-linear storytelling is inherently risky, after all.
episode 5: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 5: How to Take Criticism
How do you take criticism? How do you react, if you even do react? Does criticism cause you to change the way you work? Criticism can come from your peers in a writing group, from editors sending you rejection letters,
episode 6: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 6: Dramatic Breaks
What are dramatic breaks? We open this episode with Howard very genuinely playing Doctor Watson to Brandon's Holmes, which is amusing because as it turns out, Howard uses dramatic breaks every day. Simply put they are the points in the narrative,
episode 7: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 7: Genre Blending
You've seen it done... "Zombie Apocalypse in Space." "Perry Mason in the Armed Forces." It's genre blending, where the author takes themes prevalent in two different genres and combines them to create something new. - Sometimes it works.
episode 8: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 8: What Star Trek Did Right
As we did with The Dark Knight and Watchmen (the comic, not the movie), once again we turn our searing critical insight on a major work of successful storytelling talk about what they did right. If you loved the new Star Trek movie,
episode 9: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 9: Conventions You Should Be Attending
As genre-fiction writers we attend a lot of conventions. As aspiring genre-fiction writers you probably want to be attending conventions. But which ones should you spend time and money on, and what should you plan to do while you're there? -
episode 10: Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 10: The Dos and Don’ts of Attending Cons
Last week we discussed what kinds of events that you, the aspiring author, should be attending. This week we cover what you should and shouldn't be doing there. And we start with some don'ts. - The word of the day? "Booth Barnacle." -