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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 9.25: Adjusting Character Sympathy
Season 9 Episode 25
In which we discuss adjusting how sympathetic the reader is toward a particular character...
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Writing Excuses 9.24: Side Quests
Season 9 Episode 24
Side quests come in a couple of forms -- they may be something inside the book that takes the characters away from the main plotline, or they may be …
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Writing Excuses 9.23: World Building Without Breaking Viewpoint
Season 9 Episode 23
How do you describe water from the point of view of a fish?
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Writing Excuses 9.22: Microcasting
Season 9 Episode 22
Prologues, motivations, and research, oh my!
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Writing Excuses 9.21: Sanderson’s 3rd Law
Season 9 Episode 21
When building your world, go deep rather than going wide.
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Writing Excuses 9.20: Creator vs Creation
Season 9 Episode 20
How do we interact with readers who find meaning in our works that we don't recall putting in there?
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Writing Excuses 9.19: Showing Emotion
Season 9 Episode 19
How to go about showing a character's emotions without them seeming emo.
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Writing Excuses 9.18: Microcasting
Season 9 Episode 18
We answer questions on tropes, narrative styles, editing, rule-breaking and more.
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Writing Excuses 9.17: Microcasting
Season 9 Episode 17
A Q&A episode with Eric James Stone
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Writing Excuses 9.16: Coming up with a New Ending Halfway Through
Season 9 Episode 16
What to do when you discover your planned ending isn't actually going to work...
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