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)
17.48: Bodies, Why? (Part III)
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17.47: The Linguistics of Disability
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17.46: Monstrous Awakening
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17.45: Bodies, Tech, and Character
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17.44: Bodies, Why? (Part II: Working Through Disability)
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17.43: Bodies. Why? (Depicting Disability)
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17.42: Eight Embodied Episodes About Disability
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17.41: Picture Books are Books Too, with Special Guest Seth Fishman
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17.40: Questions & Answers About Structure, with Special Guest Peng Shepherd
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17.39: Writing Bodies and Intimacy, with K.M. Szpara
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17.38: Oh No I Lost The Thread
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17.37: Science and Fiction—It’s Not Just Science Fiction
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17.36: Space for Everyone
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17.35: Nuances of Dialog
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17.34: Developing Subtext
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17.33: Building Tension
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17.32: Everything is About Conflict
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17.31: Everyone Has an Agenda
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17.30: Know Your Characters
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17.29: The Job of Dialogue
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17.28: Keys to Writing Dialog
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17.27: Ensembles Behind the Scenes
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17.26: Hanging Separately
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17.25: Archetypes, Ensembles, and Expectations
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17.24: Ensembles and Genre
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17.23: Are We Stronger Together?
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17.22: Establishing the Ensemble
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17.21: Casting Your Story With Character Voice
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17.20: Basics of Ensemble Characterization
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17.19: Working in a Collaborative Environment
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17.18: How to be Funny, with Jody Lynn Nye
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17.17: Writing in the Public Domain
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17.16: Miscellaneous Structures
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17.15: Storytelling in the Footnotes
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17.14: Structuring for Disordered or Order-less Reading Order
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17.13: Structuring Around a Thing
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17.12: Structuring a Story Within a Story
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17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines
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17.10: Structuring with Multiple POVs
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17.9: Let’s Talk About Structure
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17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity
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17.7: Dissecting Influence
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17.6: Hitting Reset Without Getting Hit Back
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17.5: The Promise of the Brand
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17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish
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17.3: Chekov’s Surprising Yet Inevitable Inverted Gun
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17.2: It Was a Promise of Three Parts
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17.1: Genre and Media are Promises
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16.52: Structure is a Promise
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16.51: Promises are a Structure
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