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Writing Excuses 7.45: Microcasting
5 november 2012 · 19 min
It's microcasting time! This week we take a crack at the following listener questions: What percentage of a rough draft makes it into print? What are the pitfalls of jumping from novels to short fiction, and vice versa? Do you need to start with short fiction first? (This answer involves this link to Jim C. Hines.) Should a novice writer fix glaring story problems during a draft, or wait until after? Can a self-published author get picked up by a traditional publisher? How do you get over the fear of writing something unoriginal? (We break this question into two larger questions--we can do that, we use Author Math--and reference some previous episodes.) (We should also point out the irony that yes, Howard is usually the one who writes these up, but on the one day we say it's going to be Howard it's actually Dan.) Can I pay you to help me outline my story? (The answer to this particular question involves what I call "a massive yet slightly late announcement" about the "Out of Excuses" Workshop and Retreat. We also just announced a scholarship for the retreat.) Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.44: Writing for Comics with Jim Zub
29 oktober 2012 · 18 min
Jim Zub talks writing comics with Brandon, Howard, and Mary at GenCon Indy Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.43: Tie-in Fantasy Fiction with James L Sutter
22 oktober 2012 · 16 min
James L. Sutter, Pathfinder editor with Paizo, talks to us about tie-in fiction. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.42: Contemporary YA Fiction
15 oktober 2012 · 16 min
Janci Patterson joins us to talk about contemporary YA , her debut novel "Chasing the Skip," and writing from a pitch. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.41: Seven-Point Story Structure
8 oktober 2012 · 19 min
Dan Wells walks us through the seven-point story structure format he uses, and then we demonstrate by brainstorming this on a sample story. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.40: Writing the Other
1 oktober 2012 · 19 min
Maurice Broaddus joins us to talk about "writing the other" -- writing other cultures, races, genders -- basically anybody who isn't much like you. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.39: Death
24 september 2012 · 18 min
Killing characters for all the right reasons, and knowing what the wrong ones are. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.38: Writing Love Scenes
17 september 2012 · 18 min
Shanna Germain joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard for a frank discussion of love scenes. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.37: Pantsing
10 september 2012 · 18 min
Pantsing! What are we even talking about? We're talking about discovery writing, but apparently some folks think it's more fun to call it "seat-of-your-pants" writing. In this cast we cover this exhilarating process, and how it might best be applied. Mary uses the "yes-but, no-and" trick. Dan starts with an end in mind, and then ignores it in order to write today's chapter. Brandon, despite being a fairly rigid outliner, often finds himself discovery writing when under odd sorts of pressures. Howard likens discovery writing to improvisational music. Fundamentally, seat-of-your-pants writing is like seat-of-your-pants anything else: the more practice you have within that discipline, the more of the techniques you've mastered, the more likely you are to succeed in the endeavor. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.35: Brainstorming with Dan
3 september 2012 · 18 min
Dan needs help writing a short story, so Brandon, Mary, and Howard endeavor to help him. Hopefully this will be educational for the rest of you. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.36: Writing Gaming Fiction with Monte Cook
27 augustus 2012 · 18 min
RPG Luminary Monte Cook joins us at GenCon Indy 2012 to talk about writing for games, and the perils of trying to adapt game play back into prose. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.34: How to Start the Next One
20 augustus 2012 · 19 min
Finishing one project means it's time to start the next one. And no, it's not necessarily going to get easier... Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.33: Authentic Emotion
13 augustus 2012 · 18 min
Emote! Now do it authentically! In this episode we'll explain how we do it, and hopefully help you do it better. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.32: Astronomy 101 for Writers
6 augustus 2012 · 17 min
Eric James Stone joins the cast to talk astronomy as a tool for world-building Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.31: Project in Depth — Hollow City
30 juli 2012 · 22 min
Spoilers galore as we discuss "Hollow City," in depth, with author Dan Wells Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.30: Micocasting…Again!
23 juli 2012 · 19 min
The crew fields questions about criticism, suspension of disbelief, tension, and more. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.29: The Villain Problem
15 juli 2012 · 18 min
What do you do when your villain is more interesting and engaging than your hero? The first step? Admit that this is a problem... Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.28: Project in Depth– Glamour in Glass
9 juli 2012 · 23 min
Mary Robinette Kowal talks in depth about her novel Glamour In Glass, fielding questions from Brandon, Dan, and Howard. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.27: The Problem of Originality
2 juli 2012 · 16 min
Do we value originality too much? What does it mean to be original, and how can we, as authors, write wonderful things when all of the good ideas have already been used? Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.26: Q&A at UVU part 2
25 juni 2012 · 20 min
Recorded live at Utah Valley University, here's another Q&A episode from the LTUE Symposium! The questions: What was Brandon's plan with Mistborn and the themes regarding establishment? Why does Kelsier shrug so much? (This leads into a fun discussion of "tells.") How do you know when to stop a chapter? What about expanding it? How do you make your prose more transparent? How do you decide who and what to cut? What do you do to filter out the extraneous ideas that come while you're writing? What can collaborators do in order to create a single "voice" for the book? What's the best way to tackle a long back-story? Want answers? You'll just have to listen... Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers
18 juni 2012 · 17 min
Capers and Heists as a plot form, with lots of movies cited as examples. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.24: Project in Depth — Way of Kings
11 juni 2012 · 23 min
Brandon answers "The Way of Kings" questions from Mary, Howard, and Dan. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.23: Time Travel
3 juni 2012 · 18 min
Recorded live, our regular 'casters discuss time travel, and somehow manage not to become any of their own parents, or even uncles. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting
28 mei 2012 · 19 min
A microcast is our word for an asynchronous Q&A episode: you ask us tons of questions online, either through twitter or facebook or our listenermail account (on the sidebar), and we want to answer as many of them as we can. Not every answer can fill an entire episode, though, so we take the smaller ones and cover a bunch of them at once in a microcast. This week we take a brief, pithy look at the following: Prologues and epilogues Using drawings to get across settings Simple tricks for naming things Would you self publish if you had a do over? How do you keep a powerful character interesting? Foreshadowing Trimming Flashbacks Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.21: Project In Depth — Force Multiplication
21 mei 2012 · 22 min
Howard answers questions about "Force Multiplication," (the 12th Schlock Mercenary book) as posed by Brandon, Dan, and Mary. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.20: Cathartic Horror
14 mei 2012 · 20 min
Michael R. Collings and Michaelbrent Collings discuss cathartic horror with Brandon, Dan, and Mary in front of a live audience at UVU. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.19: Q&A at UVU
7 mei 2012 · 16 min
A Q&A with James Dashner covering paragraph edits, plotting, writing prequels to existing series, and more. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.18: Discovering your Voice
30 april 2012 · 18 min
What is your "voice" and how do you identify it? James Artimus Owen joins us for this discussion before a live audience at Life, The Universe, and Everything at Utah Valley University. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.17: Guns and Fiction
23 april 2012 · 17 min
Guest and gun-nut Larry Correia joins the Writing Excuses crew to talk firearms, fiction, and common mistakes. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.16: Continuing with Mary’s Outline
16 april 2012 · 25 min
In this second part a VERY SPECIAL two-part session of Writing Excuses Brandon, Dan, and Howard continue to tear into Mary's first novel outline. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.15: Editing Mary’s Outline
9 april 2012 · 23 min
In this outlining demonstration Mary reads from an early outline, then Brandon, Dan, and Howard brutally dissect it. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.14: Writing Excuses
1 april 2012 · 17 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard tell you all the reasons why you shouldn't actually be writing, and why, especially at this time of the year, these writing excuses are so critically important to your career. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.13: Man Vs. Nature
26 maart 2012 · 17 min
Brandon and Mary school Howard on "Man vs. Nature." They might school the rest of us, too. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.12: Writing the Omniscient Viewpoint
19 maart 2012 · 22 min
Brandon, Mary, and Howard talk about the strengths of the omniscient POV, how to use it well, and what pitfalls to avoid. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.11: More Microcasting
12 maart 2012 · 16 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field seven questions in fifteen minutes and forty-two seconds: a new land-speed record! Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.10: Importance of Criticism, with David Brin
5 maart 2012 · 19 min
David Brin joins Mary and Dan for a discussion of the importance of criticism. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.9: Microcasting
27 februari 2012 · 16 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field questions from Twitter, including what to do if you don't like your characters, keeping your plot on track, and how grounded in real geography your urban fantasy should be. There is also a question about bacon. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.8: The City as a Character
20 februari 2012 · 19 min
Sarah Pinborough joins Mary and Dan at World Fantasy for a very writerly discussion of London. Also, they discuss using a city as a character. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.7: Historical Fantasy
13 februari 2012 · 19 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about Historical Fantasy (differentiating it from Alternate History), its popularity, and how you might go about beginning to write it. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.6: Behind the Marshmallow
6 februari 2012 · 22 min
In this particularly self-indulgent episode of Writing Excuses we take you behind the marshmallow. We explain the origins of the 'cast, and offer you rare insight into what makes this show what it is. We talk about how the show evolved, how our equipment came to be "borrowed," and how Mary came to be involved. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.5: Sensory Writing
30 januari 2012 · 18 min
Sam Sykes joins Dan Wells and Mary Robinette Kowal for a discussion of sound, smell, taste, and touch in prose. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity
23 januari 2012 · 15 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard help you keep it short and simple. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.3: Fauna and Flora
16 januari 2012 · 18 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard tackle worldbuilding flora and fauna again, this time through negative examples, pizza-trees, and a can of worms. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.2: World Building Flora and Fauna
9 januari 2012 · 16 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about fictional ecologies. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 7.1 When Good Characters Go Bad
2 januari 2012 · 20 min
How do you take a good character and make them evil? And why would you want to do this? Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard answer that second question first, and then walk you through the process of doing this. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.30: Help! I Can’t End My Book!
26 december 2011 · 21 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk endings, and how to troubleshoot common problems writers have with them. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.29: Character Foils
19 december 2011 · 16 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about using character foils in building a story. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.28: Interstitial Art
12 december 2011 · 20 min
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman from the Interstitial Arts Foundation join Mary Robinette Kowal and Dan Wells to talk about the gaps between genres. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.27: Fantasy Setting Yard Sale
5 december 2011 · 17 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard brainstorm some fantasy setting elements for you. Need a magic system on the cheap? How about a political power structure? Lees meer
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NaNoWriMo Pep-talk from Howard
1 december 2011 · 1 min
Howard brings NaNoWriMo home with a final pep-talk for you. Short version: you're still out of excuses. Don't stop writing. Lees meer
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