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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 6.9: Microcasting 2 Electric Boogaloo
Season 6 Episode 9
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard take questions from the Twitterverse ranging from outlining, character creation, and plot-hole repair to skill develop…
14 years, 7 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.8: What an Agent Does
Season 6 Episode 8
Howard Tayler and Dan Wells interview literary agent Sara Crowe about what agents do for authors, and why having an agent might be the right thing fo…
14 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.7: Brainstorming a Cyberpunk Story
Season 6 Episode 7
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary brainstorm a cyberpunk story using concepts pulled at random from a mythology textbook.
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14 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.6: Cyberpunk
Season 6 Episode 6
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard take a high-level look at cyberpunk (the literary genre) for writers considering creating something along those lines.…
14 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.5: Query Letters
Season 6 Episode 5
Sara Crowe, literary agent with Harvey Klinger, joins Dan and Howard for a discussion of query letters.
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14 years, 8 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.4: Microcasting
Season 6 Episode 4
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field questions from the Twitterverse -- commercial publishing, finding balance, structuring stories, defining moments…
14 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.3: Professional Organizations
Season 6 Episode 3
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about SFWA, NCS, and other professional organizations for writers and creators.
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14 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations
Season 6 Episode 2
Brandon, Mary, Dan, & Howard discuss putting character motivations on the page in support of plot, character arcs, and the story in general.
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14 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?
Season 6 Episode 1
Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard discuss creativity -- how to learn it, how to teach it, and how to get better at it.
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14 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.39: Filking and Writing Music with Tom Smith
Season 5 Episode 39
Tom Smith joins Howard and Brandon at Penguicon for a discussion of Filk and some delightfully improvised music.
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14 years, 10 months ago