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Back to SearchWriting Excuses Season 2 Episode 4:View point, Plot Twists and Being a Part-Time Writer with Eric James Stone
Season 2 Episode 4
Eric James Stone joins us for our final Mountain-Con episode. This Q&A covers writing part-time (and Dan disqualifies himself from answering this que…
17 years, 4 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 3: Characters with Brandon Mull
Season 2 Episode 3
No matter how grand your setting, how intense your conflicts, or how tight your plot, at some point you're going to need characters. Join us as we di…
17 years, 5 months ago
Writing Season 2 Episode 2: How to Write for Children with Brandon Mull
Season 2 Episode 2
Kids these days with their long hair and their love of reading. It's like, get off my lawn, am I right? But in other news, kids (meaning anything fro…
17 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Bonus Episode 1: Live at the Mistborn 3 Release
Season 2 Episode 1
We talk among ourselves about some episodes of this podcast being "crunchy" and others being "fluffy." "Crunchy" episodes are the ones where we have …
17 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 1: Q&A on Setting and Characters at Mountain Con with John Brown
Season 2 Episode 1
You didn't think we'd just keep going with the same old stuff forever, did you? Well, actually we are, but now we're calling it Season 2. This season…
17 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses Episode 35: Voice, Tone and Style
Season 1 Episode 35
Everyone says you can't teach style--each writer just has to figure it out on his or her own. Well, we here at Writing Excuses have never met an ulti…
17 years, 5 months ago
Writing Excuses Episode 34: What The Dark Knight Did Right
Season 1 Episode 34
Like all right-thinking people, we loved The Dark Knight--but because we are also writers obsessed with the craft of storytelling, we liked it for ve…
17 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses Episode 33: Side Characters
Season 1 Episode 33
Just as no burger is complete without its fries, no protagonist is complete without his sidekick, or his mother, or his entomologist, or whatever sid…
17 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses Episodes 32: Talking Exposition with Patrick Rothfuss
Season 1 Episode 32
In this, the last of our WorldCon 66 episodes, Brandon, Dan, and Howard interview Name of the Wind author Patrick Rothfuss. We discuss exposition, an…
17 years, 6 months ago
Writing Excuses Episode 31: Talking RPG and Game Writing with Steve Jackson
Season 1 Episode 31
One of the biggest areas of professional creative writing these days is game writing, and who better to talk to about it than Steve Jackson--yes, THE…
17 years, 6 months ago