Writing Excuses

Eric James Stone and the Wilhelm Scream join us for a talk about "handwavium," that stuff that you use instead of through-and-through hard science. It's that part where you wave your hand and say "don't pay too much attention to this bit."

When does it fail, though? When is it good enough? Like so many other things, this hinges upon whether or not the reader is knocked out of the story by implausibility. We talk about post-trans-uranics, reversing the polarity, inertial dampeners, and internal consistency. We also talk about how we, as writers, make our decisions regarding handwavium.

Eric James Stone joins us for a discussion of revision, and what the final pass process looks like.

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Revision, revision, revision. It's easy to tell when you're in the thick of it, but how do you know when you're at the end of it? What does the last pass of revisions look like?

Eric James Stone joins us to talk about this. Brandon talk about his last pass of Words of Radiance, Howard throws down a code-base analogy, and Mary explains why Brandon is comfortable adding scenes during his last pass. Our goal is to help you develop a process that works for you.

Liner Note Linkage: "By the Hands of Juan Perón"

Time passes, and we have lots of ways to tell readers how quickly that's happening.

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Mette Ivie Harrison joins us again for a fun discussion of how we experience time. This episode runs a little differently. Howard shares an experience he had driving on black ice, Mette shares an experience about a bike accident during an Ironman, and Mary shares a story about falling down a flight of stairs.

Each of these stories point up the way that our perception of time can change. There are physiological reasons for this, and knowing just a little bit about that physiology can help us write this actual, real phenomenon in a way that does not seem cliché. We talk about how we can write time compression or dilation phenomenon in ways that seem fresh.

Mette Ivie Harrison joins us to talk about how to "hijack" the knowledge you already have in order to make you a better writer.

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Mette Ivie Harrison joins us to talk about how to "hijack" the knowledge you already have in order to make you a better writer.

Nancy Fulda talks Artificial Intelligence with Brandon, Mary, and Howard.

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Nancy Fulda talks Artificial Intelligence with Brandon, Mary, and Howard.

Nancy Fulda joins the cast for a discussion of narrative versus character perceptions

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