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
- 2025-01-18 04:47
- last episode published
- 2025-01-12 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
- 1091
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- Detail page
- Categories
- Education Literature Careers Business Training Arts
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2025-01-12 |
20.02: Q&A Aboard the Writing Excuses Cruise, with Mark Oshiro and Kate McKean This episode was recorded live at our 2024 Writing Excuses Cruise. (Did you know that we host a writing retreat on a cruise every year!?! You can learn more at https://writingexcuses.com/retreats/.) While on a boat in Mexico, we were joined by author M... |
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| 2025-01-05 | For our 20th season, we are focusing on your toolbox. We’re going to be thinking about tools in terms of the lenses that we use to approach a story. We’re going to focus on the four lenses of: who, where, when, and why (don’t worry– what and how will b... |
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| 2024-12-29 | Today, we’re reflecting on 2024. Individually, all of us went through a lot throughout the year—we encountered myriad speed bumps that slowed us down in different ways.. How do you balance your workload with your own personal life and its needs? How ca... |
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| 2024-12-22 | 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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| 2024-12-18 |
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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