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Back to SearchWriting Excuses 4.6: Pacing with James Dashner
Season 4 Episode 6
This episode was recorded live at Life, The Universe, & Everything 28, The BYU Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy, and features, among other th…
16 years, 3 months ago
Writing Excuses 4.5: Roleplaying Games as Tools for Story Telling
Season 4 Episode 5
Roll for initiative, folks! Brandon, Dan, and Howard all play tabletop role-playing games, and sometimes even play together. The question of the hour…
16 years, 3 months ago
Writing Excuses 4.4: Agents. Do you need one?
Season 4 Episode 4
We're going to wade into a recent e-brouhaha, but it's not going to be the Amazon vs Macmillan one. No, this is the one where Dean Wesley Smith argue…
16 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses 4.3: How to Manage Your Influences
Season 4 Episode 3
How do you avoid letting other people's work creep into your own? We're all influenced by the media we partake in whether we admit it or not. How muc…
16 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses 4.2: Heroism
Season 4 Episode 2
If you want to write a good, heroic hero, this is the podcast for you. We're not necessarily talking about the archetypical, classically-defined, cap…
16 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses 4.1: Types of Humor
Season 4 Episode 1
Welcome to Writing Excuses Season 4, featuring new, shorter episode titles! Also, if you don't count the bonus episodes or the Parsec Award Acceptanc…
16 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 32: Collaboration
Season 3 Episode 32
For starters, let's clear the air. Yes, the first episode of the new year is also the last episode of Writing Excuses Season 3. And yes, we'll be get…
16 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 31: Tragedy
Season 3 Episode 31
Tragedy. It's just TRAGIC. Tragedy is also one of the classical forms that writers need to know how to work within. Why? Well... because the Greeks t…
16 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 29: Antiheroes
Season 3 Episode 29
What is an Antihero? There are lots of definitions of this word, so Dan boils it down to just three: The Frodo, The Punisher, and The Talented Mister…
16 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 30: Unreliable Narrators
Season 3 Episode 30
This episode totally would have updated earlier if I'd only known sooner that it was ready to go. Jordo says he emailed me early this evening, but if…
16 years, 5 months ago