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
- 2024-04-25 17:13
- last episode published
- 2024-04-21 08:00
- publication frequency
- 5.63 days
- Contributors
- Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
- Owner Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 1051
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- Categories
- Education Literature Careers Business Training Arts
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Episodes
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| 2024-04-21 | Today we get to talk to the inimitable Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. Amal and Max are on the podcast to tell us about how they wrote a book together (hint: they didn’t write it together in the form of one voice.) They talk to us about the practice ... |
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| 2024-04-14 | As we conclude our first deep dive of our close reading series, we want to explore how the evolution of voice helped carry readers throughout "This Is How You Lose The Time War." We also talk about the relationship between character arcs and language, ... |
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| 2024-04-07 |
19.14: A Close Reading on Voice- Epistolary Storytelling Through Voice What's epistolary writing? Well, it's writing through letters. But it's also a lot more than that. As we continue to dive into the concept of Voice, we want to explore the importance and power of the letters that Blue and Red write to each other throug... |
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| 2024-03-31 |
19.13: A Close Reading on Voice: Blue's Perspective - Confidence and Vulnerability On our third episode diving into Voice through the novella “This Is How You Lose The Time War,” we begin to explore the different voices that make up the two main characters in the story. Last episode we dove into Red’s voice– if you haven’t already, w... |
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| 2024-03-24 |
19:12: A Close Reading on Voice - Red's Perspective - Muscular Prose Today, we are doing a very close read of Red's opening narration and how Red’s voice communicates both character and world in an effective and efficient way. We read several sections aloud and dive into what each sensory detail is doing. Also Mary Robi... |
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| 2024-03-17 |
19.11: A Close Reading on Voice- An Overview, and Why Time War The book that became a New York Times Bestseller because of a tweet. Well, it won LOTS of awards when it came out, but it was rediscovered by a Twitter account with a large following. So-- let's get into it!On our first episode diving into Voice using ... |
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| 2024-03-10 | You’ve probably seen us posting about our Close Reading Series, and in his episode, we finally officially introduce it! For most of the remainder of 2024, we’ll be diving into five core elements of writing by focusing on five different literary texts. ... |
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| 2024-03-03 | Hosts Erin and DongWon are joined by Fonda Lee and Mahtab Narsimhan for a special episode about creating traditions in your fictional writing. In this episode, we'll explore some of the following: -How do you build traditions and rituals in your fictio... |
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| 2024-02-25 |
19.08: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Working with an Editor An agent, an editor, and a writer walk into a Zoom room and record a podcast... but really... that's (part of) what this episode is!First off, a reminder that your agent, your editor, and you are all on the same team! They are all trying to make the sa... |
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| 2024-02-18 | For our second episode in this three-part series on revising your NaNoWriMo novel—or any other larger project you have—we are diving into intentions with Tor editor Ali Fisher. We asked her how she helps writers figure out what their books are about, a... |
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