Writing Excuses

By Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler

Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.

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Writing Excuses episodes:

August 26, 2013 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

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August 18, 2013 Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable
How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction?

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August 11, 2013 Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting
Q&A covering workflow, contests, lantern-hanging, word counts, and more

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August 04, 2013 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.

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July 29, 2013 Writing Excuses 8.30: Writing Reluctant Characters
The cast discusses how to make reluctant, non-proactive, non-go-getting characters interesting to read about.

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July 22, 2013 Writing Excuses 8.29: Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #1
The cast answers questions about publishing, formatting, process, and the Evil Nemesis John Scalzi.

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July 14, 2013 Writing Excuses 8.28: Your First Contract
The team talks about contracts, and what you as an author staring at a contract should be considering.

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July 07, 2013 Writing Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns
How do we break our books into chapters, and how to we build those chapters to begin with?

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June 30, 2013 Writing Excuses 8.26: Space Opera
What does "space opera" mean, and how might you go about writing it?

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21min
June 23, 2013 Writing Excuses 8.25: Middle Grade with E.J. Patten
E.J. Patten joins us again, this to discuss the particulars of writing middle-grade fiction.

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19min

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