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Back to SearchWriting Excuses Season 2 Episode 32: The Most Important Thing Dan Learned In The Last Year
Season 2 Episode 32
This the third in our series of retrospective episodes. The most important thing Dan learned this year? Being a full-time author is a lot different t…
17 years ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 31: The Most Important Thing Brandon Learned In The Last Year
Season 2 Episode 31
Here's the second part of our three-part "what we learned this year" series. This time around Brandon tells us the most important thing he learned th…
17 years ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 30: The Most Important Thing Howard Learned In The Last Year
Season 2 Episode 30
This is the first of a three-part series in which Brandon, Dan, and Howard tell each other (and you, of course) about the most important thing each o…
17 years ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 29: How not to end your book
Season 2 Episode 29
Let's talk about failure... but let's talk about it so that we can avoid it. How do you know if your ending has flopped? What kind of approaches to e…
17 years, 1 month ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 28: Applying Critical Reading: “Watchmen”
Season 2 Episode 28
Last week we talked about reading critically, reading as writers. This week we decided to apply that critical reading skill to Watchmen, the Hugo awa…
17 years, 1 month ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 27: Reading Critically
Season 2 Episode 27
As a writer you obviously know how to read. But being a writer changes how you read, and what you read, and even why you read. Do you read more, or l…
17 years, 1 month ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 26: How Publishing is Changing in the new Century
Season 2 Episode 26
Nancy Fulda, assistant editor at Baen's Universe and editor-in-chief and founder of Anthology Builder, joins us again while Dan Wells is out celebrat…
17 years, 1 month ago
Writing Excuses Episode 632: Now that we’ve got time travel what do we do with it?
Season 2
This... THIS is why speculative fiction writers should never be trusted with actual technology.
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17 years, 2 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 25: The Seven Deadly Sins of Slush Stories
Season 2 Episode 25
Nancy Fulda fills in for Dan for this week's episode (he was sick, she was in town, huzzah!) but she's more than just "filling in." She's FEATURED. N…
17 years, 2 months ago
Writing 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, 2 months ago