Writing Excuses
Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, and Daniel Wells discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced, 15-minute format.
- Website
- http://www.writingexcuses.com
- Description
- Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-12-18 15:43
- last episode published
- 2024-12-18 09:00
- publication frequency
- 5.67 days
- Contributors
- Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1087
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- Categories
- Education Literature Careers Business Training Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2024-12-18 |
19.50.5: An Interview with DIY MFA Founder Gabriela Pereira (BONUS EPISODE) We had the pleasure of sitting down with Gabriela Pereira, founder and instigator of DIY MFA, which is the do-it-yourself alternative to a Master of Arts in Writing. Pereira has some incredible advice for how to put together a writing curriculum for yo... |
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| 2024-12-15 | As the end of Season 19 approaches, we want to help you integrate what you’ve learned over the year. For December, we’ll be releasing episodes designed to help you make measurable progress on a writing project. So dust off your current work-in-progress... |
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| 2024-12-08 | As we wrap up our Close Reading Series, we’re shifting our focus towards helping you integrate what you’ve learned. For December, we’ll be releasing episodes designed to help you make measurable progress on a writing project. So dust off your current w... |
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| 2024-12-01 | As we wrap up our Close Reading Series, we’re shifting our focus towards helping you integrate what you’ve learned. For December, we’ll be releasing episodes designed to help you make measurable progress on a writing project. So dust off your current w... |
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| 2024-11-27 |
19.47.5: Interview with Andrew Buckley of the StoryCentric podcast (BONUS EPISODE) What does it mean to be building a career as an author in this day and age? We talk with author and speaker Andrew Buckley about everything from author brands to conferences while we ask Andrew to give us advice on how to get comfortable talking about ... |
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| 2024-11-24 | We reminisce on when we were on a writing retreat on a cruise in 2023, planning this close reading series. We have loved how this series grounded our conversations, allowing us to dive into works that were complex in specific ways. We have loved wading... |
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| 2024-11-17 | We had the pleasure of sitting down with N.K. Jemisin to talk about the structures and processes that helped create The Fifth Season. We talk about outlines, multiple plotlines, and planets as characters. Jemisin lets us into her writing process—rangin... |
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| 2024-11-10 | We’ve loved doing our close reading series throughout 2024, and The Fifth Season has been no different. Today, we’re reflecting on what we learned in our episodes focusing on N.K. Jemisin’s incredible work. We reflect on POV as structure, parallelism, ... |
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| 2024-11-03 |
19.44: A Close Reading on Structure: Tradition and Innovation Today we’re zooming out to see where N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season fits into the canon of fantasy literature. How does Jemisin interact with magic, words, and the expectations of the genre? And what expectations do the readers bring themselves? How d... |
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| 2024-10-27 |
19.43: A Close Reading on Structure: Parallelism and Inversion The structure of The Fifth Season features both mirroring and inversion. How do these structural shifts interact with the three POVs? On today’s episode, we talk about the parallelism of the perspectives and the linguistic references to seasons. This l... |
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