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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 8.36: Transitioning Characters in Prominence
Season 8 Episode 36
How do you go about transitioning characters in relative prominence during a series of books?
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12 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.35: Digging Yourself Out of Holes with Jeph Jacques
Season 8 Episode 35
Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content joins us to talk about discovery writing, and how he digs himself out of holes when he writes himself into them.…
12 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.34: Survivorship Bias
Season 8 Episode 34
The cast talks about their survivorship bias, and how to pay attention to that bias so that listeners can extract advice from us that might actually …
12 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable
Season 8 Episode 33
How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction?
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12 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting
Season 8 Episode 32
Q&A covering workflow, contests, lantern-hanging, word counts, and more
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12 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.31: Combining Dialogue, Blocking, and Description
Season 8 Episode 31
The cast talks about making dialogue, blocking, and description work together for exposition and story-telling.
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12 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.30: Writing Reluctant Characters
Season 8 Episode 30
The cast discusses how to make reluctant, non-proactive, non-go-getting characters interesting to read about.
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12 years, 10 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.29: Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #1
Season 8 Episode 29
The cast answers questions about publishing, formatting, process, and the Evil Nemesis John Scalzi.
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12 years, 10 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.28: Your First Contract
Season 8 Episode 28
The team talks about contracts, and what you as an author staring at a contract should be considering.
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12 years, 10 months ago
Writing Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns
Season 8 Episode 27
How do we break our books into chapters, and how to we build those chapters to begin with?
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12 years, 10 months ago