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Writing Excuses 6.26: Mystery Plotting
28 november 2011 · 17 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about plotting a good mystery, especially as part of a non-mystery-genre book. Lees meer
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Dan
23 november 2011 · 1 min
This your third week of NaNoWriMo, and Dan's here to tell you your wordcount should be at around 38,000. He also tells us how NaNoWriMo helped him write faster and keep to a schedule, and that you (yes YOU) are awesome. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.25: When Characters do Dumb Things
21 november 2011 · 16 min
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary talk about making characters do dumb things for smart reasons. Lees meer
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Mary
17 november 2011 · 2 min
Mary Robinette Kowal offers encouragement to the 2011 NaNoWriMo crowd. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.24: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
14 november 2011 · 19 min
Andrew P. Mayer joins Howard, Mary, and Dan to talk about taking silly ideas and making seriously awesome stuff out of them. Lees meer
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Brandon
9 november 2011 · 1 min
Brandon Sanderson offers a quick pep-talk for NaNoWriMo participants. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.23: Pigeon Holes
7 november 2011 · 17 min
Jonathan Maberry joins Howard, Dan, and Mary to discuss pigeonholes -- specifically, not ending up in one. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.22: Continuing Education for Writers
31 oktober 2011 · 19 min
Mur Lafferty joins Howard, Mary, and Dan to talk about ways in which writers can continue their education. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.21: Brainstorming From Story Seeds
24 oktober 2011 · 16 min
Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard each crank out the beginnings of a story from the same set of story seeds. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.20: Endings
17 oktober 2011 · 19 min
Lou Anders joins Dan, Howard, and Mary for a discussion of endings. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.19: Pitching
10 oktober 2011 · 18 min
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary talk about pitching -- a critical skill for new and established authors alike. Lees meer
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6.18: The Hollywood Formula, with Lou Anders
3 oktober 2011 · 20 min
Lou Anders joins Mary, Dan, and Howard at Dragon*Con for a discussion of the Hollywood Formula. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.17: Writing Assistants
26 september 2011 · 21 min
Peter Ahlstrom, assistant to Brandon Sanderson, and Valerie Dowbenko, assistant to Pat Rothfuss, join Brandon and Dan to talk about what they do for "their authors." Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.16: Gender Roles–Black, White, and Gray
19 september 2011 · 20 min
Keffy Kehrli joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard at WorldCon 69 for a discussion of gender roles, gender identity, and transsexualism with the objective of being able to write these things believably and accurately. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.15: Writing Other Cultures
12 september 2011 · 19 min
Lauren Beukes joins the 'cast for a discussion of writing cultures that you're not personally a part of. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.14: Suspension of Disbelief
5 september 2011 · 20 min
Patrick Rothfuss joins the crew at WorldCon 69 for a discussion of how to get readers to suspend their disbelief. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.13: World Building Communications Technology
29 augustus 2011 · 16 min
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary discuss communications technology, and how the ability for characters to communicate is a critical piece of your world-building, whether you're writing science-fiction, fantasy, or pretty much anything else. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.12: Revising For Description
22 augustus 2011 · 17 min
"The wind rushed across his skin at several hundred miles per second, and registered as an itch." Brandon, Dan, and Mary tear into Howard's two-decade-old manuscript with an eye towards descriptions. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.11: Making Your Descriptions Do More Than One Thing
15 augustus 2011 · 18 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard approach writing descriptions from several different angles and at least five disciplines in order to help you get more done with less purple. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.10: Scott Card’s M.I.C.E. Quotient
8 augustus 2011 · 18 min
Mary walks Brandon, Dan, and Howard through the Milieu, Idea, Character, and Event (M.I.C.E.) quotient from Orson Scott Card, and then they retell the Billy Goats Gruff four times. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.9: Microcasting 2 Electric Boogaloo
31 juli 2011 · 18 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard take questions from the Twitterverse ranging from outlining, character creation, and plot-hole repair to skill development and writing groups. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.8: What an Agent Does
25 juli 2011 · 18 min
Howard Tayler and Dan Wells interview literary agent Sara Crowe about what agents do for authors, and why having an agent might be the right thing for your career. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.7: Brainstorming a Cyberpunk Story
18 juli 2011 · 19 min
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary brainstorm a cyberpunk story using concepts pulled at random from a mythology textbook. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.6: Cyberpunk
11 juli 2011 · 17 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard take a high-level look at cyberpunk (the literary genre) for writers considering creating something along those lines. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.5: Query Letters
4 juli 2011 · 21 min
Sara Crowe, literary agent with Harvey Klinger, joins Dan and Howard for a discussion of query letters. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.4: Microcasting
27 juni 2011 · 19 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field questions from the Twitterverse -- commercial publishing, finding balance, structuring stories, defining moments, and more. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.3: Professional Organizations
20 juni 2011 · 21 min
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about SFWA, NCS, and other professional organizations for writers and creators. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations
13 juni 2011 · 20 min
Brandon, Mary, Dan, & Howard discuss putting character motivations on the page in support of plot, character arcs, and the story in general. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?
6 juni 2011 · 19 min
Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard discuss creativity -- how to learn it, how to teach it, and how to get better at it. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.39: Filking and Writing Music with Tom Smith
30 mei 2011 · 18 min
Tom Smith joins Howard and Brandon at Penguicon for a discussion of Filk and some delightfully improvised music. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.38: Dialog with John Scalzi
23 mei 2011 · 18 min
John Scalzi joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of dialog and how genre fiction writers can learn to do a better job with it. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.37: Parody and Satire with Jim Hines
16 mei 2011 · 17 min
Jim Hines suffers abuse from Howard and Brandon as the three of them discuss parody, satire, and humor in front of a live audience at Penguicon. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.36: Non-Traditional Settings with Saladin Ahmed
9 mei 2011 · 18 min
Saladin Ahmed, Nebula- and Campbell-award nominee joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of setting -- specifically, setting an epic fantasy in something besides the traditional, Western European middle ages. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.35: Brainstorming Urban Fantasy
2 mei 2011 · 18 min
Brandon, Dan, and Howard brainstorm an urban fantasy set in a big-box store in Park City, Utah. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.34: Story Bibles
25 april 2011 · 19 min
Let's talk about bibles. Specifically, story bibles. What are they, why do we use them, why might we NOT use them, and what tools are working for us? Howard again plugs wikidpad, which he converted Brandon to, and which Dan Wells just couldn't bring himself to love. Dan uses several different Open Office files. The important thing, though, is that when we need to store information about the book in someplace besides the book itself, we write it down in our story bibles. Dan talks about his new project, how important the story bible was for that, and what sorts of things absolutely have to go in there. Howard talks about the sorts of Schlock-tech that often end up Audiobook Pick-of-the-Week: Freakonomics, by Steven D. Leavitt and Stephen J. Dubner, narrated by Stephen J. Dubner. Writing Prompt: Someone is a were-animal. Pick an animal that hasn't been done. Were-banana-slug, perhaps? 9:40 through 10:10: Yes, we went kind of quiet there. Somebody kicked a cable, maybe? This episode of Writing Excuses has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/excuse for a free trial membership*. *Note: From the Audible website, here are the terms of the free membership. Read the fine print, please! Audible® Free Trial Details Get your first 14 days of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan free, which includes one audiobook credit. After your 14 day trial, your membership will renew each month for just $14.95 per month so you can continue to receive one audiobook credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases. A very small number of titles are more than one credit. Cancel your membership before your free trial period is up and you will not be charged. Thereafter, cancel anytime, effective the next billing cycle. Any unused audiobook credits will be lost at cancellation. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses on the 2011 Hugo Ballot
25 april 2011 · 6 min
Writing Excuses Season 4 has been nominated for a "Best Related Work" Hugo. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.33: Alpha Readers
18 april 2011 · 21 min
Brandon, Dan, and Howard discuss what an alpha reader is, is not, and where one might find these marvelous creatures. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.32: Urban Fantasy
11 april 2011 · 17 min
We begin our discussion of Urban Fantasy with a discussion of definitions, which quickly devolves into an argument over what we are actually supposed to be talking about. Moving right along, we explore what sorts of things we find in an Urban Fantasy, and what sorts of rules these stories usually abide by. Dan tells us how he set about writing the John Cleaver books, which certainly qualify as Urban Fantasy, Howard tackles the burning question of where one might start in the project of building a mythos, and Brandon explains his own Urban Fantasy projects, including one failure from which we can all learn an important lesson. Audiobook Pick-of-the-Week: The Dresden Files Book One: Storm Front, by Jim Butcher, narrated by James Marsters. Writing Prompt: . Give us an Urban Fantasy in which the point of origin for your crossover is big box store retail spaces which somehow breach the boundary between our world and the magical one. This episode of Writing Excuses has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/excuse for a free trial membership*. *Note: From the Audible website, here are the terms of the free membership. Read the fine print, please! Audible® Free Trial Details Get your first 14 days of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan free, which includes one audiobook credit. After your 14 day trial, your membership will renew each month for just $14.95 per month so you can continue to receive one audiobook credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases. A very small number of titles are more than one credit. Cancel your membership before your free trial period is up and you will not be charged. Thereafter, cancel anytime, effective the next billing cycle. Any unused audiobook credits will be lost at cancellation. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.31: Writing Romance
4 april 2011 · 23 min
Sarah Eden and Robison Wells join Dan and Howard at LTUE to talk about writing romance. Sarah writes in the romance genre, but we're not focusing on the genre -- we're talking about writing romance within the context of whatever else we might happen to be putting on the page. We lead with how to do it wrong, because nothing is as much fun to talk about as bad romance. It's also educational. More importantly (and more usefully) we talk about formulas for doing romance correctly. One of the most practical is to pair characters up by finding emotional needs that these characters can meet for each other. We look at examples from each of our work: Sarah's The Kiss of a Stranger, Dan's I Don't Want To Kill You, Howard's The Sharp End of the Stick, and Rob's Variant. Audiobook Pick-of-the-Week: I Don't Want To Kill You, by Dan Wells, narrated by Kirby Heyborne. It's true, this book has some great romance in it. Also, murder. Writing Prompt: Create a character, and then create a complementary character who both meets a need and provides unwelcome challenge. Everybody's Lisp: Brought to you by the noise reduction software we used. Sorry about that. It won't happen again. The Bonus Game: Bad Romance! Enjoy! This episode of Writing Excuses has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/excuse for a free trial membership*. *Note: From the Audible website, here are the terms of the free membership. Read the fine print, please! Audible® Free Trial Details Get your first 14 days of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan free, which includes one audiobook credit. After your 14 day trial, your membership will renew each month for just $14.95 per month so you can continue to receive one audiobook credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases. A very small number of titles are more than one credit. Cancel your membership before your free trial period is up and you will not be charged. Thereafter, cancel anytime, effective the next billing… Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.30: Writing Action
28 maart 2011 · 20 min
Dan and Howard are joined by Larry Correia and Robison Wells, and with the enthusiastic support of a live audience at LTUE they discuss writing action. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.29: Rewriting
21 maart 2011 · 19 min
We were fortunate enough to record two episodes with Tracy Hickman and Dave Wolverton at Life, The Universe, and Everything XXIX. In this second installment these masters of the craft school us on the subject of rewrites. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.28: E-publishing
14 maart 2011 · 18 min
David Farland and Tracy Hickman discuss electronic publishing with Dan and Howard. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.27: Perseverance, with Sherrilyn Kenyon
7 maart 2011 · 17 min
Sherrilyn Kenyon joins Brandon, Dan, and Howard for a discussion of persevering as a writer. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.26: Scared for the Characters
28 februari 2011 · 17 min
Sherrilyn Kenyon tells us all how to make readers fear for the characters in her books. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.25: Writing in Other People’s Universes
21 februari 2011 · 18 min
So, you want to write a Star Wars book? Kevin J. Anderson joins Brandon, Dan, and Howard to tackle writing in other people's universes. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.24: The Author’s Responsibility to the Reader
14 februari 2011 · 18 min
Kevin J. Anderson discusses author productivity with Brandon, Dan, and Howard. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.23: Life Day!
7 februari 2011 · 15 min
Mary Robinette Kowal and Dave Wolverton again join Dan and Howard, and this time we're talking about holidays in fantasy and science-fiction. This 'cast was recorded at Superstars Writing Seminars, and Moses Siregar III of Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing captured us on video as we recorded. What sorts of things result in holidays? Historically we see them at the solstices and the equinoxes, planting and harvest, and commemorations of important events. We talk about all of these, and how to work them into your own writing without sounding like you're just filing the serial numbers off of Christmas, Halloween, and Mardi Gras. So of course we also talk about how to do this wrong. Audiobook Pick-of-the-Week: METAtropolis: Cascadia, by Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes, Karl Schroeder, and Tobias Buckell, and narrated by Rene Auberjonois, Kate Mulgrew, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, and Jay Lake. Writing Prompt: Make up a holiday that isn't based on anything you've seen. Exclamation Howard Thought He'd Never Use: Bone Puppet Day! This episode of Writing Excuses has been brought to you by Audible. Visit http://AudiblePodcast.com/excuse for a free trial membership*. *Note: From the Audible website, here are the terms of the free membership. Read the fine print, please! Audible® Free Trial Details Get your first 14 days of the AudibleListener® Gold membership plan free, which includes one audiobook credit. After your 14 day trial, your membership will renew each month for just $14.95 per month so you can continue to receive one audiobook credit per month plus members-only discounts on all audio purchases. A very small number of titles are more than one credit. Cancel your membership before your free trial period is up and you will not be charged. Thereafter, cancel anytime, effective the next billing cycle. Any unused audiobook credits will be lost at cancellation. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.22: Film Considerations
31 januari 2011 · 14 min
Mary Robinette Kowal and Dave Wolverton join Dan and Howard for a discussion of movie considerations and formulas. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.21: Alternate History
24 januari 2011 · 23 min
Mary Robinette Kowal and Eric Flint join Howard and Dan for a discussion of Alternate history - what, why, and how. Lees meer
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Writing Excuses 5.20: More Dialog Exercises
17 januari 2011 · 24 min
Brandon, Dan, and Howard critique some dialog-only writing exercises from listeners. Lees meer
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