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Back to SearchWriting Excuses Season 2 Episode 24: Writing Habits and Q&A with Tracy Hickman
Season 2 Episode 24
Tracy Hickman joins us again at "Life, The Universe, and Everything," and in this episode we let Brandon ask him random questions while Dan and Howar…
17 years ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 23: Avoiding the Cliché with Tracy Hickman
Season 2 Episode 23
We took Writing Excuses on the road last month for "Life, The Universe, and Everything," the symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy at Brigham Youn…
17 years ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 22: Marketing 201, Branding for Authors
Season 2 Episode 22
"Branding," not "Brandon," just so we're clear. Brand-ING. We open with the definition of "branding," talking about what it is, and (just as importan…
17 years ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 21: Fight Scenes
Season 2 Episode 21
Rob Wells joins the Writing Excuses crew for a second 'cast, this time dealing with fight scenes. We talk about good blocking versus a bad blow-by-b…
17 years ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 20: Marketing 101 for Creators
Season 2 Episode 20
Howard takes the moderatorial lead on this episode in which he, Brandon, and Dan are joined by Rob Wells for a discussion of marketing. What is marke…
17 years, 1 month ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 19: Do Creative Writing Classes Help
Season 2 Episode 19
Brandon and Dan met during a creative writing class at Brigham Young University, and Brandon went on to get a Master's Degree in the field. Howard ha…
17 years, 1 month ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 18: World Building Governments
Season 2 Episode 18
Let's get back to world-building, and dig into a tough one: government. In this case we're talking about government as part of the backdrop, rather t…
17 years, 1 month ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 17: Website Marketing for Authors
Season 2 Episode 17
Our producer Jordan Sanderson joins us for this week's installment, in which we likely make all kinds of enemies among the authorial community by exp…
17 years, 1 month ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 16: Non-Human Races
Season 2 Episode 16
The Writing Excuses crew returns to world-building, this time to discuss the creation of non-human races. Why do genre-fiction writers use aliens and…
17 years, 2 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 15: Knowing When To Begin
Season 2 Episode 15
When do you know when you're ready to begin? What does that question even mean? Apparently Brandon gets asked it a lot, though, so he posed it for th…
17 years, 2 months ago