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)
16.01: Your Career is Your Business
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15.52: Economy of Phrase, Being the Concentrated Concatenation of Complex Though...
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15.51: Feedback—When to Listen, and When to Ignore, with special guest Mahtab Na...
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15.50: Juggling Ensembles
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15.49: Maintaining Passion for a Story, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
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15.48: Deliberate Discomfort, Part Two
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15.47: Worldbuilding Science Fiction, with Cory Doctorow
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15.46: Crafting Chinese-American Characters
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15.45: Worldbuilding Fantasy, with Patrick Rothfuss
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15.44: Rebooting a Career
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15.43: Audiobook Narration, with Bruce D Richardson
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15.42: Writing The End
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15.41: Researching the FCK out of Things, with Cory Doctorow
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15.40: Researching for Writing the Other
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15.39: Translation, with special guest Alex Shvartsman
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15.38: Depicting Religions That Are Not Your Own
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15.37: Writing Under Deadlines
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15.36: Collaboration, with Shannon and Dean Hale
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15.35: Tools for Writing and Worldbuilding, with Erin Roberts
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15.34: Writing Deliberate Discomfort
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15.33: The Long, Dark Second Act of the Soul
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15.32: Short Story Markets
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15.31: The Agent in the Room
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15.30: Write What You Want To Know, with Laurell K. Hamilton
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15.29: Barbie Pre-Writing, with Janci Patterson and Megan Walker
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15.28: Small Evils
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15.27: Alternate History, with Eric Flint
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15.26: Taking the Chance, with David Weber
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15.25: Using the MICE Quotient for Conflict
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15.24: Keeping it Fresh, with Jim Butcher
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15.23: Serialization
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15.22 Writing For Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale
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15.21: Writing About Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale
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15.20: Mental Wellness and Writing
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15.19: As You Know, This Episode Is About Exposition
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15.18: Finding a Community, with Shauna Hoffman
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15.17: Asexual Representation
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15.16: Balancing Plot and Character
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15.15: Dialog
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15.14: Agent Query Trenches
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15.13: Using Elections in Stories
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15.12: Writing the Other—Being an Ally
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15.11: Digital is Different, with Cory Doctorow
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15.10: Evaluating Ideas
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15.09: Choose Your Own Adventurous Publishing Path
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15.08: Q&A on a Ship
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15.07: Creating Chapters
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15.06: Prose and Cons, with Patrick Rothfuss
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15.05: Setting Goals for Your Career
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15.04: Revision, with Patrick Rothfuss
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