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Back to SearchWriting 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 3 months 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, 4 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, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 14: Writing Habits
Season 2 Episode 14
We get asked a lot about our writing habits. So your Writing Excuses hosts spend the whole 'cast discussing their schedules, their work environments,…
17 years, 4 months ago