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 31: Writing Excuses 8.31: Combining Dialogue, Blocking, and Description
The cast talks about making dialogue, blocking, and description work together for exposition and story-telling.
episode 32: Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting
Q&A covering workflow, contests, lantern-hanging, word counts, and more
episode 33: Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable
How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction?
episode 34: Writing Excuses 8.34: Survivorship Bias
The cast talks about their survivorship bias, and how to pay attention to that bias so that listeners can extract advice from us that might actually work for you
episode 35: Writing Excuses 8.35: Digging Yourself Out of Holes with Jeph Jacques
Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content joins us to talk about discovery writing, and how he digs himself out of holes when he writes himself into them.
episode 36: Writing Excuses 8.36: Transitioning Characters in Prominence
How do you go about transitioning characters in relative prominence during a series of books?
episode 37: Writing Excuses 8.37: When Fail Happens in Your Career
How do you respond to bad reviews, publisher errors, or other possible "career fail" situations?
episode 38: Writing Excuses 8.38:Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #2
The cast talks about self publishing, our early career difficulties, Easter Eggs, and more...
episode 39: Writing Excuses 8.39: Dystopian Fiction with Cherie Priest
Cherie Priest joins the cast for a discussion of dystopian fiction before a live audience.
episode 40: Writing Excuses 8.40: Publishing with Bill Schafer
Bill Schaefer of Subterranean Press talks publishing with us.