Writing Excuses
Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced format. A weekly podcast about the craft and business of writing.
Episodes (1996)
18.45: NaNoWriMo Week 2 - Inciting Incident
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18.44: NaNoWriMo Week 1- Getting Started
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18.43: Worldbuilding in Miniature
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18.42: Creating Magic Outside of a System
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18.41: Deep Dive: Erin's Short Fiction Extravaganza
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18.40: How To Make Money From Your Hobby (with special guest Sandra Tayler!)
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18.39: How To Write An Ending
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18.38: How Do You Write A Series With Books That Stand Alone?
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18.37: Mandatory Failure
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18.36: The Soggy Middle Pays the Rent (or, "Stand Alone With Series Potential")
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18.35: How to Organize Your Writing, or Managing the Mega-Arc
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18.34: Seventeen Years of Foreshadowing
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18.33.5: State Of The Podcast
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18.33: Deep Dive: The Schlock Mercenary Finale
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18.32: The Kirsten Vangsness Expansion Pack
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18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes
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18.30: Planting Supernatural Seeds
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18.29: Collaboration And Partnership
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18.28: Writing Conversational Dialogue
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18.27: Framing Stories
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18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures,...
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18.25: To Narrator or Not to Narrator
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18.24: “Dark One: Forgotten” Deep Dive
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18.23: Our Advice on Giving Advice
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18.22: On Mentorship: Sending the Elevator Back Down
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18.21: The Empathy Gap: How to Understand What Your Publisher is Telling You
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18.20: So You Want To Work In Publishing?
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18.19: What is Publishing For, Anyway?
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18.18: Launching an Author Newsletter
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18.17: Build Your Author Brand, 2023 Edition
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18.16: Deep Dive: Publishing is Hard, by DongWon Song
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18.15: Building a Mystery, Now With More Tools
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18.14: Heavy Lifting with Microtension
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18.13: Finding the Core Conflict
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18.12: The Long Shadow of Unanswered Questions
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18.11: Turning Up the Contrast With Juxtaposition
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18.10: Anticipation is More Than Just Making Us Wait
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18.09: Unpacking the Tension
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18.08: Building a Mystery
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18.07: Deep Dive into THE SPARE MAN
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18.06: An Interview With Howard Tayler
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18.05: An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal
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18.04: An Interview With Dan Wells
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18.03: An Interview With Erin Roberts
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18.02: An Interview with DongWon Song
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18.01: Twenty Twenty-Three, By Way of Introduction
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17.52: The WXR 2022 Q&A
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17.51: Feel The Burn
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17.50: Consistency, Inconsistency, and the Crushing Weight of Expectations
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17.49: Bodies Are Magical
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