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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 7.44: Writing for Comics with Jim Zub
Season 7 Episode 44
Jim Zub talks writing comics with Brandon, Howard, and Mary at GenCon Indy
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13 years, 7 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.43: Tie-in Fantasy Fiction with James L Sutter
Season 7 Episode 43
James L. Sutter, Pathfinder editor with Paizo, talks to us about tie-in fiction.
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13 years, 7 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.42: Contemporary YA Fiction
Season 7 Episode 42
Janci Patterson joins us to talk about contemporary YA , her debut novel "Chasing the Skip," and writing from a pitch.
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13 years, 7 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.41: Seven-Point Story Structure
Season 7 Episode 41
Dan Wells walks us through the seven-point story structure format he uses, and then we demonstrate by brainstorming this on a sample story.
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13 years, 7 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.40: Writing the Other
Season 7 Episode 40
Maurice Broaddus joins us to talk about "writing the other" -- writing other cultures, races, genders -- basically anybody who isn't much like you.
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13 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.39: Death
Season 7 Episode 39
Killing characters for all the right reasons, and knowing what the wrong ones are.
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13 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.38: Writing Love Scenes
Season 7 Episode 38
Shanna Germain joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard for a frank discussion of love scenes.
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13 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.37: Pantsing
Season 7 Episode 37
Pantsing! What are we even talking about? We're talking about discovery writing, but apparently some folks think it's more fun to call it "seat-of-yo…
13 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.35: Brainstorming with Dan
Season 7 Episode 35
Dan needs help writing a short story, so Brandon, Mary, and Howard endeavor to help him. Hopefully this will be educational for the rest of you.
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13 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.36: Writing Gaming Fiction with Monte Cook
Season 7 Episode 36
RPG Luminary Monte Cook joins us at GenCon Indy 2012 to talk about writing for games, and the perils of trying to adapt game play back into prose.
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13 years, 9 months ago