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 30 minutes
episode 7: Writing Excuses 7.7: Historical Fantasy
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about Historical Fantasy (differentiating it from Alternate History), its popularity, and how you might go about beginning to write it.
episode 8: Writing Excuses 7.8: The City as a Character
Sarah Pinborough joins Mary and Dan at World Fantasy for a very writerly discussion of London. Also, they discuss using a city as a character.
episode 9: Writing Excuses 7.9: Microcasting
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field questions from Twitter, including what to do if you don't like your characters, keeping your plot on track, and how grounded in real geography your urban fantasy should be. There is also a question about bacon.
episode 10: Writing Excuses 7.10: Importance of Criticism, with David Brin
David Brin joins Mary and Dan for a discussion of the importance of criticism.
episode 11: Writing Excuses 7.11: More Microcasting
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field seven questions in fifteen minutes and forty-two seconds: a new land-speed record!
episode 12: Writing Excuses 7.12: Writing the Omniscient Viewpoint
Brandon, Mary, and Howard talk about the strengths of the omniscient POV, how to use it well, and what pitfalls to avoid.
episode 13: Writing Excuses 7.13: Man Vs. Nature
Brandon and Mary school Howard on "Man vs. Nature." They might school the rest of us, too.
episode 14: Writing Excuses 7.14: Writing Excuses
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard tell you all the reasons why you shouldn't actually be writing, and why, especially at this time of the year, these writing excuses are so critically important to your career.
episode 15: Writing Excuses 7.15: Editing Mary’s Outline
In this outlining demonstration Mary reads from an early outline, then Brandon, Dan, and Howard brutally dissect it.
episode 16: Writing Excuses 7.16: Continuing with Mary’s Outline
In this second part a VERY SPECIAL two-part session of Writing Excuses Brandon, Dan, and Howard continue to tear into Mary's first novel outline.