Writing Excuses

Writing Excuses 7.16: Continuing with Mary’s Outline


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Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more... only without a big speech before the charge.

We're still tearing into Mary's first novel outline in this second part of a VERY SPECIAL two-part session of Writing Excuses. Mary reads from her outline, then Brandon, Dan, and Howard look for high-level problems like inactive protagonists, missing character arcs, or other structural issues.

As promised, this episode runs long. Hopefully you're not in that much of a hurry, because clearly we weren't smart enough to plow through all this material inside of 20 minutes.

Liner Notes: That link up there is the same as this one right here.
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Writing ExcusesBy Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler