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Back to SearchWriting Excuses Season 2 Episode 6: Endings
Season 2 Episode 6
Episode 6, recorded live at Dragon's Keep opens with monkey noises and greeting-card pith, and ends with... well, we'll just let you listen. Is it a …
17 years, 9 months ago
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 5: Writing Groups
Season 2 Episode 5
So you've got a fantastic idea for a book or a short story, but where do you go from there? Who can give the incentive to write, the support to keep …
17 years, 9 months ago
Writing 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, 9 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 months ago