Podcast Episodes

Writing Excuses 7.27: The Problem of Originality

Season 7 Episode 27

Do we value originality too much? What does it mean to be original, and how can we, as authors, write wonderful things when all of the good ideas hav…

14 years, 2 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.26: Q&A at UVU part 2

Season 7 Episode 26

Recorded live at Utah Valley University, here's another Q&A episode from the LTUE Symposium! The questions: What was Brandon's plan with Mistborn and…

14 years, 2 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers

Season 7 Episode 25

Capers and Heists as a plot form, with lots of movies cited as examples.

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14 years, 2 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.24: Project in Depth — Way of Kings

Season 7 Episode 24

Brandon answers "The Way of Kings" questions from Mary, Howard, and Dan.

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14 years, 2 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.23: Time Travel

Season 7 Episode 23

Recorded live, our regular 'casters discuss time travel, and somehow manage not to become any of their own parents, or even uncles.

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14 years, 3 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting

Season 7 Episode 22

A microcast is our word for an asynchronous Q&A episode: you ask us tons of questions online, either through twitter or facebook or our listenermail …

14 years, 3 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.21: Project In Depth — Force Multiplication

Season 7 Episode 21

Howard answers questions about "Force Multiplication," (the 12th Schlock Mercenary book) as posed by Brandon, Dan, and Mary.

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14 years, 3 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.20: Cathartic Horror

Season 7 Episode 20

Michael R. Collings and Michaelbrent Collings discuss cathartic horror with Brandon, Dan, and Mary in front of a live audience at UVU.

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14 years, 3 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.19: Q&A at UVU

Season 7 Episode 19

A Q&A with James Dashner covering paragraph edits, plotting, writing prequels to existing series, and more.

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14 years, 3 months ago

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Writing Excuses 7.18: Discovering your Voice

Season 7 Episode 18

What is your "voice" and how do you identify it? James Artimus Owen joins us for this discussion before a live audience at Life, The Universe, and Ev…

14 years, 4 months ago

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