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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 6.11: Making Your Descriptions Do More Than One Thing
Season 6 Episode 11
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard approach writing descriptions from several different angles and at least five disciplines in order to help you get mor…
15 years ago
Writing Excuses 6.10: Scott Card’s M.I.C.E. Quotient
Season 6 Episode 10
Mary walks Brandon, Dan, and Howard through the Milieu, Idea, Character, and Event (M.I.C.E.) quotient from Orson Scott Card, and then they retell th…
15 years ago
Writing 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…
15 years, 1 month 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…
15 years, 1 month 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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15 years, 1 month 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.…
15 years, 1 month 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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15 years, 2 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…
15 years, 2 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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15 years, 2 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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15 years, 2 months ago