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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 10.19: Intrigue
Season 10 Episode 19
What's the difference between intrigue, suspense, and mystery? We talk about this, and then drill down on intrigue.
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Writing Excuses 10.18: Build an Entire World? Are You Crazy?
Season 10 Episode 18
This one's for all you folks who like to do some world building on-the-fly.
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Writing Excuses 10.17: Q&A on Beginnings
Season 10 Episode 17
We've talked beginnings all month. Now we take your questions about them.
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10 years, 11 months ago
Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space?
Season 10 Episode 16
Let's get that first page written in a way that will bring the reader to all the rest of the pages.
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Writing Excuses 10.15: Worldbuilding Wilderness with Wes Chu
Season 10 Episode 15
Wes Chu, author and adventurer, recently climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, and has some things to say about all the wilderness trekking that our characters …
10 years, 11 months ago
Writing Excuses 10.14: How Much of the Beginning Needs to Come First?
Season 10 Episode 14
How do you know which bits of your story have to come first?
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Writing Excuses 10.13: Where is My Story Going?
Season 10 Episode 13
Any discussion of story structure must necessarily take a look at that big, long bit between the beginning and the end, that piece where almost every…
11 years ago
Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu
Season 10 Episode 12
Wes Chu joins us again for a Q&A about this month's topic: story structure! Here are the questions: Do you make a conscious decision about how to str…
11 years ago
Writing Excuses 10.11: Project In Depth: “Parallel Perspectives”
Season 10 Episode 11
If you haven't yet read "Parallel Perspectives," from Schlock Mercenary: Massively Parallel, we have a PDF for you to download and read before you st…
11 years ago
Writing Excuses 10.10: Q&A with the I Ching
Season 10 Episode 10
Wesley Chu joins us for a literal shake-up of our structure for one episode. We had loads of fun with this one. The I Ching is a collection of poems …
11 years ago