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Season 11
Three days late for the beginning of NaNoWriMo 2016, here's a bonus episode about maps. Because nothing says "keep writing" like "hey, let's draw a m…
9 years, 4 months ago
11.Bonus-02: Horrifying the Children, with Darren Shan
Season 11
Happy Halloween! Darren Shan talks horror with us in this bonus episode, made possible by our Patreon supporters.
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9 years, 5 months ago
11.44: Project in Depth, GHOST TALKERS, by Mary Robinette Kowal
Season 11 Episode 44
Spoiler Alert! If you haven't yet read Ghost Talkers, by Mary Robinette Kowal, this episode will spoil great swathes of book for you. Also, you proba…
9 years, 5 months ago
11.43: Elemental Drama Q&A, with Tananarive Due
Season 11 Episode 43
Our third Elemental Drama episode is a Q&A, featuring Tananarive Due. The questions are from the attendees at the Writing Excuses Workshop and Retrea…
9 years, 5 months ago
11.42: Elemental Drama as a Sub-Genre
Season 11 Episode 42
Focusing on elemental drama can be tricky. Remember, elemental drama is basically "character change." A great many stories use character change in so…
9 years, 5 months ago
11.Bonus-01: Characterization and Differentiation, with Robin Hobb
Season 11
Robin Hobb joined us at GenCon Indy for a discussion of characterization and differentiation. And by "discussion," what we really mean is "we ask Rob…
9 years, 5 months ago
11.41: The Editor’s Wish List, with Navah Wolfe
Season 11 Episode 41
Navah Wolfe, an editor at Saga Press, joined us to talk about the manuscripts she would really like to see. Ordinarily we don't encourage people to w…
9 years, 5 months ago
11.40: Elemental Drama
Season 11 Episode 40
The word "drama" gets thrown around a lot. What do we mean when we use "drama" as an elemental genre? For us, Elemental Drama focuses on one characte…
9 years, 5 months ago
11.39: Elemental Relationship Q&A, with Greg van Eekhout
Season 11 Episode 39
Greg van Eekhout joined us at Phoenix Comic Con for a live-audience Q&A session about Elemental Relationship writing. Here are the questions: What is…
9 years, 6 months ago
11.38: The Elemental Relationship as a Sub-Genre
Season 11 Episode 38
We find the elemental relationship in all kinds of stories that are not fundamentally about relationships. The intimate interaction between character…
9 years, 6 months ago