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Back to SearchWriting 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 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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15 years ago
Writing Excuses 5.38: Dialog with John Scalzi
Season 5 Episode 38
John Scalzi joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of dialog and how genre fiction writers can learn to do a better job with it.
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15 years ago