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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 5.18: Offending Your Readers
Season 5 Episode 18
Brandon, Dan, and Howard discuss avoiding unnecessary offense as writers.
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15 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.17: Dialog Exercises
Season 5 Episode 17
Brandon, Dan, and Howard critique some tagless dialog submissions.
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15 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.16: Critiquing Dan’s First Novel
Season 5 Episode 16
Late last season we took a look at Brandon's first novel and did some line-editing and critiquing. It was so much fun we decided that Dan needed to t…
15 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.12: Time Travel!
Season 5 Episode 12
Brandon, Dan, and Howard each offer sage advice to their earlier selves.
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15 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.15: Steampunk with Scott Westerfeld
Season 5 Episode 15
Scott Westerfeld joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of Steampunk.
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15 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.14: Visual Components of Novels with Scott Westerfeld
Season 5 Episode 14
Scott Westerfeld joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of the visual components of novels.
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15 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.13: Writing the Second Book
Season 5 Episode 13
John Brown joins Brandon, Dan, and Howard for a discussion of second novels, sequels, and the trick to doing it again.
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15 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.12: The Secret of Lincoln’s Gold
Season 5 Episode 12
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15 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.11: MicroPodcasting 2
Season 5 Episode 11
Brandon, Dan, and Howard field questions about doing bad things to characters, soliciting feedback, creature design, and outlining.
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15 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses 5.10: John Brown and the Creative Process
Season 5 Episode 10
The now cancer-free John Brown joins us again, this time for a discussion of the creative process. John has presented a seminar on this subject in th…
15 years, 6 months ago