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
- 2024-11-17 17:38
- last episode published
- 2024-11-17 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
- 1081
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- Education Literature Careers Business Training Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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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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| 2024-10-20 |
19.42: A Close Reading on Structure: Whose Perspective is it Anyways? Structure and POV (point of view) are often intertwined. In N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, we see this in the myriad perspective shifts. In this episode, we talk about the importance of these shifts on the structure of the book. How does the narrator... |
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| 2024-10-13 |
19.41: A Close Reading on Structure: An Overview and Why Fifth Season Just a reminder that we will be talking about a lot of spoilers, so if you haven’t read The Fifth Season, go and do so now! As we dive into N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, we wanted to tell you why we chose this work to examine the importance of struc... |
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| 2024-10-06 | We sat down with the author of Ring Shout, P. Djèlí Clark, in order to wrap up our close reading of tension. We talked with Clark about his influences, which ranged from Birth of a Nation to Beyonce’s “Formation.” We dive into contextual vs. narrative ... |
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| 2024-09-29 | This episode, we’re talking about how important tension is in creating a world where your readers feel fully immersed. We talk about the importance of using tropes and techniques while also using variation in order to make your story less predictable. ... |
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| 2024-09-22 |
19.38: A Close Reading on Tension: Anticipation and Subversion When you’re subverting your readers’ expectations, do you need to do the exact opposite of what they’re anticipating? Today, we dive into this question, using various examples of books and movies. We then examine how P. Djèlí Clark does this throughout... |
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| 2024-09-15 | Today, we’re using music as an entry-point for tension. Howard introduces us to the power of the half-step, and other musical metaphors that can help you to incorporate tension in a new way to your writing. And then DongWon updates the metaphor with an... |
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