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Back to SearchWriting 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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15 years, 2 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, 3 months 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, 3 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.37: Parody and Satire with Jim Hines
Season 5 Episode 37
Jim Hines suffers abuse from Howard and Brandon as the three of them discuss parody, satire, and humor in front of a live audience at Penguicon.
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15 years, 3 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.36: Non-Traditional Settings with Saladin Ahmed
Season 5 Episode 36
Saladin Ahmed, Nebula- and Campbell-award nominee joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of setting -- specifically, setting an epic fantasy in so…
15 years, 3 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.35: Brainstorming Urban Fantasy
Season 5 Episode 35
Brandon, Dan, and Howard brainstorm an urban fantasy set in a big-box store in Park City, Utah.
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15 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.34: Story Bibles
Season 5 Episode 34
Let's talk about bibles. Specifically, story bibles. What are they, why do we use them, why might we NOT use them, and what tools are working for us?…
15 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses on the 2011 Hugo Ballot
Season 5
Writing Excuses Season 4 has been nominated for a "Best Related Work" Hugo.
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15 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.33: Alpha Readers
Season 33 Episode 5
Brandon, Dan, and Howard discuss what an alpha reader is, is not, and where one might find these marvelous creatures.
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15 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.32: Urban Fantasy
Season 5 Episode 32
We begin our discussion of Urban Fantasy with a discussion of definitions, which quickly devolves into an argument over what we are actually supposed…
15 years, 4 months ago