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)
16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices
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16.49: Magic and Technology: Two Sides of the Same Coin
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16.48: Believable Worlds Part 2: Creating Texture
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16.47: Believable Worlds Part 1: The Illusion of Real
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16.46: World and Plot: The Only Constant is Change
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16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame
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16.44: World and Character Part 1: All Your Characters Are Biased
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16.43: The Narrative Holy Trinity of World, Character, and Plot, with Fonda Lee
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16.42: M.I.C.E. Quotient, After the Fact
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16.41: Middles and Conflicts with M.I.C.E. Structure
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16.40: Nesting Threads in the M.I.C.E. Quotient
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16.39: Deep Dive into “Event”
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16.38: Deep Dive into “Character”
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16.37: Deep Dive Into “Inquiry”
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16.36: Deep Dive into “Milieu”
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16.35: What is the M.I.C.E. Quotient?
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16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes
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16.33: Tell, Don’t Show
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16.32: First Page Fundamentals—THE KILLING FLOOR, by Lee Childs
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16.31: First Page Fundamentals—MOBY DICK
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16.30: First Page Fundamentals—THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
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16.29: Building Trust
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16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes
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16.27: Nobody Wants to Read a Book
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16.26: Working With Teams
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16.25: Breaking Into Game Writing
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16.24: Worldbuilding for Games
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BONUS EPISODE! 2021 WXR Early-Bird Announcement
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16.23: Rules and Mechanics
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16.22: Scenes and Set Pieces
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16.21: Player Characters
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16.20: Branching Narratives
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16.19: Intro to Roleplaying Games
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16.18: Poetry and the Fantastic
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16.17: The Time To Rhyme
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16.16: Poetic Structure: Part II
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16.15: Poetic Structure, Part I
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16.14: Poetic Language
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16.13: Day Brain vs. Night Brain
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16.12 : Singing Versus Speaking
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16.11: What is Poetry?
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16.10: Paying it Forward, with Kevin J. Anderson
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16.9: Crossing The Revenue Streams
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16.8: Smart Promotion
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16.7: To Series, or Not to Series
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16.6: Building Your Brand
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16.5: Pros and Contracts
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16.4: Networking
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16.3: Publishing Pitfalls
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16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends
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