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Back to Search15.20: Mental Wellness and Writing
Season 15 Episode 20
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard In this episode we'll be talking about the things we do to stay creative, productive, healthy, and hap…
5 years, 10 months ago
15.19: As You Know, This Episode Is About Exposition
Season 15 Episode 19
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard "As you know, Bob..." is the trope-tastic line we use to refer to expository dialog which has no funct…
5 years, 10 months ago
15.18: Finding a Community, with Shauna Hoffman
Season 15 Episode 18
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, and Lari¹, with special guest Shauna Hoffman Many Writing Excuses listeners (especially WXR alumni) already know Sha…
5 years, 10 months ago
15.17: Asexual Representation
Season 15 Episode 17
Your Hosts: Dan, Tempest, Mary Robinette, and Howard Generally speaking, asexuality is a sexual orientation or identity typified by the absence of a …
5 years, 11 months ago
15.16: Balancing Plot and Character
Season 15 Episode 16
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard We're often asked how to balance character arcs with the intricacies of the plots we create. In this e…
5 years, 11 months ago
15.15: Dialog
Season 15 Episode 15
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard Listener questions drove this episode, and there are only two of them but they were pretty good …
5 years, 11 months ago
15.14: Agent Query Trenches
Season 15 Episode 14
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard The title of this episode comes to us from listener questions along the lines of "what do you do…
5 years, 11 months ago
15.13: Using Elections in Stories
Season 15 Episode 13
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard, with special guest Daniel Friend Daniel Friend, who edits SF/F, has worked in election offices,…
6 years ago
15.12: Writing the Other—Being an Ally
Season 15 Episode 12
Your Hosts: Piper, Tempest, DongWon, with special guest Erin Roberts What can we do to be allies to members of marginalized groups? Many of us want t…
6 years ago
15.11: Digital is Different, with Cory Doctorow
Season 15 Episode 11
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Piper, Howard, and special guest Cory Doctorow "How do you break in?" is one of those questions we always get asked in so…
6 years ago