Writing Excuses

By Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard TaylerBusiness Fiction Careers

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Writing Excuses episodes

June 02, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.23: World Building Without Breaking Viewpoint
How do you describe water from the point of view of a fish?

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May 26, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.22: Microcasting
Prologues, motivations, and research, oh my!

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May 19, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.21: Sanderson’s 3rd Law
When building your world, go deep rather than going wide.

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May 12, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.20: Creator vs Creation
How do we interact with readers who find meaning in our works that we don't recall putting in there?

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May 05, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.19: Showing Emotion
How to go about showing a character's emotions without them seeming emo.

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April 28, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.18: Microcasting
We answer questions on tropes, narrative styles, editing, rule-breaking and more.

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19 min
April 21, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.17: Microcasting
A Q&A episode with Eric James Stone

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19 min
April 16, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.16: Coming up with a New Ending Halfway Through
What to do when you discover your planned ending isn't actually going to work...

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April 07, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.15: Becoming a Writer—Full Disclosure
Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard talk about the unpleasant surprises their careers dropped on them.

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19 min
April 07, 2014 Writing Excuses 9.15: Becoming a Writer—Full Disclosure
“What are the parts of the job that nobody told you about?”
Or, you know, WARNED you about…
It’s a question somebody sent to us, and we all had different answers, so Brandon put together a list, and we made a whole episode out of it! We talk about reviews, physical pain, dietary excitement, deadline-driven interruptions, and not having leisure reading time.
But this isn’t just us whining. We also talk about our solutions to these problems. You know, in between the whining.
19 min