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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 7.7: Historical Fantasy
Season 7 Episode 7
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about Historical Fantasy (differentiating it from Alternate History), its popularity, and how you might go about …
14 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.6: Behind the Marshmallow
Season 7 Episode 6
In this particularly self-indulgent episode of Writing Excuses we take you behind the marshmallow. We explain the origins of the 'cast, and offer you…
14 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.5: Sensory Writing
Season 7 Episode 5
Sam Sykes joins Dan Wells and Mary Robinette Kowal for a discussion of sound, smell, taste, and touch in prose.
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14 years, 7 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity
Season 7 Episode 4
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard help you keep it short and simple.
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14 years, 7 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.3: Fauna and Flora
Season 7 Episode 3
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard tackle worldbuilding flora and fauna again, this time through negative examples, pizza-trees, and a can of worms.
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14 years, 7 months ago
Writing Excuses 7.2: World Building Flora and Fauna
Season 7 Episode 2
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about fictional ecologies.
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Writing Excuses 7.1 When Good Characters Go Bad
Season 7 Episode 1
How do you take a good character and make them evil? And why would you want to do this? Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard answer that second question fi…
14 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.30: Help! I Can’t End My Book!
Season 6 Episode 30
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk endings, and how to troubleshoot common problems writers have with them.
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14 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.29: Character Foils
Season 6 Episode 29
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about using character foils in building a story.
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14 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.28: Interstitial Art
Season 6 Episode 28
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman from the Interstitial Arts Foundation join Mary Robinette Kowal and Dan Wells to talk about the gaps between genres.
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14 years, 8 months ago