Writing Excuses
Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced format. A weekly podcast about the craft and business of writing.Podcasts
18.52: Writing Inside The Box
Published: Dec. 24, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 28 seconds
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18.51: So You Wanna Play With Format?
Published: Dec. 17, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 47 seconds
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18.50: The Unreliable Narrator
Published: Dec. 10, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds
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18.49: Giving Your Story A Voice
Published: Dec. 3, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 9 seconds
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18.48: NaNoWriMo Week 5 - Writing Endings
Published: Nov. 26, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 9 seconds
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18.47: NaNoWriMo Week 4 - Climaxes, or OH MY GOD NO
Published: Nov. 19, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds
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18.46: NaNoWriMo Week 3 - Raising the Stakes
Published: Nov. 12, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds
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18.45: NaNoWriMo Week 2 - Inciting Incident
Published: Nov. 5, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 28 seconds
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18.44: NaNoWriMo Week 1- Getting Started
Published: Oct. 29, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds
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18.43: Worldbuilding in Miniature
Published: Oct. 22, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 7 seconds
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18.42: Creating Magic Outside of a System
Published: Oct. 15, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 55 seconds
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18.41: Deep Dive: Erin's Short Fiction Extravaganza
Published: Oct. 8, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 11 seconds
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18.40: How To Make Money From Your Hobby (with special guest Sandra Tayler!)
Published: Oct. 1, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 38 seconds
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18.39: How To Write An Ending
Published: Sept. 24, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 37 seconds
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18.38: How Do You Write A Series With Books That Stand Alone?
Published: Sept. 17, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds
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18.37: Mandatory Failure
Published: Sept. 10, 2023, 9 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 34 seconds
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18.36: The Soggy Middle Pays the Rent (or, "Stand Alone With Series Potential")
Published: Sept. 3, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 30 seconds
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18.35: How to Organize Your Writing, or Managing the Mega-Arc
Published: Aug. 27, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 33 seconds
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18.34: Seventeen Years of Foreshadowing
Published: Aug. 20, 2023, 7:30 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 47 seconds
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18.33.5: State Of The Podcast
Published: Aug. 16, 2023, 2 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 58 seconds
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18.33: Deep Dive: The Schlock Mercenary Finale
Published: Aug. 13, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 27 minutes 43 seconds
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18.32: The Kirsten Vangsness Expansion Pack
Published: Aug. 6, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 10 seconds
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18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes
Published: July 30, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 10 seconds
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18.30: Planting Supernatural Seeds
Published: July 23, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 13 seconds
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18.29: Collaboration And Partnership
Published: July 16, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 47 seconds
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18.28: Writing Conversational Dialogue
Published: July 9, 2023, 7 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds
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18.27: Framing Stories
Published: July 2, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 28 minutes 16 seconds
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18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures, & More
Published: June 25, 2023, 4 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 21 seconds
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18.25: To Narrator or Not to Narrator
Published: June 18, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 26 minutes 19 seconds
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18.24: Dark One: Forgotten Deep Dive
Published: June 11, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 30 minutes 24 seconds
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18.23: Our Advice on Giving Advice
Published: June 4, 2023, 8 a.m.Duration: 32 minutes 5 seconds
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18.22: On Mentorship: Sending the Elevator Back Down
Published: May 28, 2023, 10 a.m.Duration: 31 minutes 36 seconds
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18.21: The Empathy Gap: How to Understand What Your Publisher is Telling You
Published: May 21, 2023, 4 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 44 seconds
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18.20: So You Want To Work In Publishing?
Published: May 14, 2023, 9:20 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 32 seconds
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18.19: What is Publishing For, Anyway?
Published: May 7, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 45 seconds
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18.18: Launching an Author Newsletter
Published: April 30, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 11 seconds
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18.17: Build Your Author Brand, 2023 Edition
Published: April 23, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 40 seconds
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18.16: Deep Dive: Publishing is Hard, by DongWon Song
Published: April 16, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds
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18.15: Building a Mystery, Now With More Tools
Published: April 9, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds
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18.14: Heavy Lifting with Microtension
Published: April 2, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 15 seconds
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18.13: Finding the Core Conflict
Published: March 26, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 32 seconds
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18.12: The Long Shadow of Unanswered Questions
Published: March 19, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 3 seconds
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18.11: Turning Up the Contrast With Juxtaposition
Published: March 12, 2023, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds
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18.10: Anticipation is More Than Just Making Us Wait
Published: March 5, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds
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18.09: Unpacking the Tension
Published: Feb. 26, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 41 seconds
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18.08: Building a Mystery
Published: Feb. 19, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 13 seconds
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18.07: Deep Dive into THE SPARE MAN
Published: Feb. 12, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 18 seconds
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18.06: An Interview With Howard Tayler
Published: Feb. 5, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 2 seconds
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18.05: An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal
Published: Jan. 29, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds
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18.04: An Interview With Dan Wells
Published: Jan. 22, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 48 seconds
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18.03: An Interview With Erin Roberts
Published: Jan. 15, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 52 seconds
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18.02: An Interview with DongWon Song
Published: Jan. 8, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 36 seconds
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18.01: Twenty Twenty-Three, By Way of Introduction
Published: Jan. 1, 2023, 11 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 23 seconds
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17.52: The WXR 2022 Q&A
Published: Dec. 25, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 18 seconds
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17.51: Feel The Burn
Published: Dec. 18, 2022, 10:20 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds
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17.50: Consistency, Inconsistency, and the Crushing Weight of Expectations
Published: Dec. 11, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds
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17.49: Bodies Are Magical
Published: Dec. 4, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds
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17.48: Bodies, Why? (Part III)
Published: Nov. 27, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 6 seconds
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17.47: The Linguistics of Disability
Published: Nov. 20, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds
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17.46: Monstrous Awakening
Published: Nov. 13, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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17.45: Bodies, Tech, and Character
Published: Nov. 6, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 4 seconds
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17.44: Bodies, Why? (Part II: Working Through Disability)
Published: Oct. 30, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 11 seconds
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17.43: Bodies. Why? (Depicting Disability)
Published: Oct. 23, 2022, 9 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds
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17.42: Eight Embodied Episodes About Disability
Published: Oct. 16, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 10 seconds
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17.41: Picture Books are Books Too, with Special Guest Seth Fishman
Published: Oct. 9, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds
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17.40: Questions & Answers About Structure, with Special Guest Peng Shepherd
Published: Oct. 2, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 29 seconds
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17.39: Writing Bodies and Intimacy, with K.M. Szpara
Published: Sept. 25, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 20 seconds
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17.38: Oh No I Lost The Thread
Published: Sept. 18, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds
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17.37: Science and FictionIts Not Just Science Fiction
Published: Sept. 11, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds
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17.36: Space for Everyone
Published: Sept. 4, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds
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17.35: Nuances of Dialog
Published: Aug. 28, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds
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17.34: Developing Subtext
Published: Aug. 21, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 24 seconds
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17.33: Building Tension
Published: Aug. 14, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 44 seconds
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17.32: Everything is About Conflict
Published: Aug. 7, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 41 seconds
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17.31: Everyone Has an Agenda
Published: July 31, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 21 seconds
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17.30: Know Your Characters
Published: July 24, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
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17.29: The Job of Dialogue
Published: July 17, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 8 seconds
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17.28: Keys to Writing Dialog
Published: July 10, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 1 second
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17.27: Ensembles Behind the Scenes
Published: July 3, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds
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17.26: Hanging Separately
Published: June 26, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds
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17.25: Archetypes, Ensembles, and Expectations
Published: June 19, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 16 seconds
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17.24: Ensembles and Genre
Published: June 12, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 10 seconds
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17.23: Are We Stronger Together?
Published: June 5, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 28 seconds
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17.22: Establishing the Ensemble
Published: May 29, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 40 seconds
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17.21: Casting Your Story With Character Voice
Published: May 22, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 27 seconds
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17.20: Basics of Ensemble Characterization
Published: May 15, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 59 seconds
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17.19: Working in a Collaborative Environment
Published: May 8, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 8 seconds
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17.18: How to be Funny, with Jody Lynn Nye
Published: May 1, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds
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17.17: Writing in the Public Domain
Published: April 24, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 13 minutes 22 seconds
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17.16: Miscellaneous Structures
Published: April 17, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 45 seconds
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17.15: Storytelling in the Footnotes
Published: April 10, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 20 seconds
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17.14: Structuring for Disordered or Order-less Reading Order
Published: April 3, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 19 seconds
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17.13: Structuring Around a Thing
Published: March 27, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds
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17.12: Structuring a Story Within a Story
Published: March 20, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 45 seconds
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17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines
Published: March 13, 2022, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 56 seconds
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17.10: Structuring with Multiple POVs
Published: March 6, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 13 seconds
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17.9: Lets Talk About Structure
Published: Feb. 27, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds
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17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity
Published: Feb. 20, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds
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17.7: Dissecting Influence
Published: Feb. 13, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds
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17.6: Hitting Reset Without Getting Hit Back
Published: Feb. 6, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 3 seconds
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17.5: The Promise of the Brand
Published: Jan. 30, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 56 seconds
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17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish
Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 54 seconds
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17.3: Chekovs Surprising Yet Inevitable Inverted Gun
Published: Jan. 16, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
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17.2: It Was a Promise of Three Parts
Published: Jan. 9, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 33 seconds
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17.1: Genre and Media are Promises
Published: Jan. 2, 2022, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 8 seconds
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16.52: Structure is a Promise
Published: Dec. 26, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds
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16.51: Promises are a Structure
Published: Dec. 19, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 23 seconds
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16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices
Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 11:01 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 46 seconds
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16.49: Magic and Technology: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Published: Dec. 5, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 52 seconds
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16.48: Believable Worlds Part 2: Creating Texture
Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 8 seconds
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16.47: Believable Worlds Part 1: The Illusion of Real
Published: Nov. 21, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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16.46: World and Plot: The Only Constant is Change
Published: Nov. 14, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 51 seconds
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16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame
Published: Nov. 7, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 31 seconds
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16.44: World and Character Part 1: All Your Characters Are Biased
Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds
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16.43: The Narrative Holy Trinity of World, Character, and Plot, with Fonda Lee
Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds
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16.42: M.I.C.E. Quotient, After the Fact
Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 50 seconds
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16.41: Middles and Conflicts with M.I.C.E. Structure
Published: Oct. 10, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 42 seconds
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16.40: Nesting Threads in the M.I.C.E. Quotient
Published: Oct. 3, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds
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16.39: Deep Dive into Event
Published: Sept. 26, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 4 seconds
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16.38: Deep Dive into Character
Published: Sept. 19, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds
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16.37: Deep Dive Into Inquiry
Published: Sept. 12, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 3 seconds
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16.36: Deep Dive into Milieu
Published: Sept. 5, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 26 seconds
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16.35: What is the M.I.C.E. Quotient?
Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 12 seconds
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16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes
Published: Aug. 22, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 23 seconds
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16.33: Tell, Dont Show
Published: Aug. 15, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds
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16.32: First Page FundamentalsTHE KILLING FLOOR, by Lee Childs
Published: Aug. 8, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 11 seconds
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16.31: First Page FundamentalsMOBY DICK
Published: Aug. 1, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds
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16.30: First Page FundamentalsTHE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
Published: July 25, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 56 seconds
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16.29: Building Trust
Published: July 18, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 3 seconds
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16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes
Published: July 11, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds
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16.27: Nobody Wants to Read a Book
Published: July 4, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds
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16.26: Working With Teams
Published: June 27, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds
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16.25: Breaking Into Game Writing
Published: June 20, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 1 second
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16.24: Worldbuilding for Games
Published: June 13, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds
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BONUS EPISODE! 2021 WXR Early-Bird Announcement
Published: June 10, 2021, 2:08 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 40 seconds
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16.23: Rules and Mechanics
Published: June 6, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 50 seconds
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16.22: Scenes and Set Pieces
Published: May 30, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 13 seconds
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16.21: Player Characters
Published: May 23, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds
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16.20: Branching Narratives
Published: May 16, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 52 seconds
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16.19: Intro to Roleplaying Games
Published: May 9, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 18 seconds
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16.18: Poetry and the Fantastic
Published: May 2, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 57 seconds
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16.17: The Time To Rhyme
Published: April 25, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds
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16.16: Poetic Structure: Part II
Published: April 18, 2021, 6:45 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 57 seconds
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16.15: Poetic Structure, Part I
Published: April 11, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds
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16.14: Poetic Language
Published: April 4, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 35 seconds
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16.13: Day Brain vs. Night Brain
Published: March 28, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds
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16.12 : Singing Versus Speaking
Published: March 21, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 17 seconds
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16.11: What is Poetry?
Published: March 14, 2021, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 16 seconds
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16.10: Paying it Forward, with Kevin J. Anderson
Published: March 7, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 28 minutes 11 seconds
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16.9: Crossing The Revenue Streams
Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 58 seconds
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16.8: Smart Promotion
Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 24 seconds
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16.7: To Series, or Not to Series
Published: Feb. 14, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 29 seconds
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16.6: Building Your Brand
Published: Feb. 7, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 28 seconds
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16.5: Pros and Contracts
Published: Jan. 31, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 18 seconds
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16.3: Publishing Pitfalls
Published: Jan. 17, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 4 seconds
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16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends
Published: Jan. 10, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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16.01: Your Career is Your Business
Published: Jan. 3, 2021, 11 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes
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15.52: Economy of Phrase, Being the Concentrated Concatenation of Complex Thoughts in Just a Very Few Words Which Must Fit In A Very Very Small Box, With Patrick Rothfuss
Published: Dec. 27, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 3 seconds
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15.51: FeedbackWhen to Listen, and When to Ignore, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
Published: Dec. 20, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds
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15.50: Juggling Ensembles
Published: Dec. 13, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 46 seconds
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15.49: Maintaining Passion for a Story, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
Published: Dec. 6, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 41 seconds
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15.48: Deliberate Discomfort, Part Two
Published: Nov. 29, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 35 seconds
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15.47: Worldbuilding Science Fiction, with Cory Doctorow
Published: Nov. 22, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 59 seconds
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15.46: Crafting Chinese-American Characters
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 40 seconds
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15.45: Worldbuilding Fantasy, with Patrick Rothfuss
Published: Nov. 8, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 27 seconds
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15.44: Rebooting a Career
Published: Nov. 1, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 30 seconds
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15.43: Audiobook Narration, with Bruce D Richardson
Published: Oct. 25, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds
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15.42: Writing The End
Published: Oct. 18, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 19 seconds
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15.41: Researching the FCK out of Things, with Cory Doctorow
Published: Oct. 11, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 9 seconds
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15.40: Researching for Writing the Other
Published: Oct. 4, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 50 seconds
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15.39: Translation, with special guest Alex Shvartsman
Published: Sept. 27, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds
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15.38: Depicting Religions That Are Not Your Own
Published: Sept. 20, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 26 seconds
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15.37: Writing Under Deadlines
Published: Sept. 13, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 32 seconds
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15.36: Collaboration, with Shannon and Dean Hale
Published: Sept. 6, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 41 seconds
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15.35: Tools for Writing and Worldbuilding, with Erin Roberts
Published: Aug. 30, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 35 seconds
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15.34: Writing Deliberate Discomfort
Published: Aug. 23, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 35 seconds
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15.33: The Long, Dark Second Act of the Soul
Published: Aug. 16, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 23 seconds
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15.32: Short Story Markets
Published: Aug. 9, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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15.30: Write What You Want To Know, with Laurell K. Hamilton
Published: July 26, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 19 seconds
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15.29: Barbie Pre-Writing, with Janci Patterson and Megan Walker
Published: July 19, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds
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15.28: Small Evils
Published: July 12, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 37 seconds
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15.27: Alternate History, with Eric Flint
Published: July 5, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 25 seconds
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15.26: Taking the Chance, with David Weber
Published: June 28, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 41 seconds
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15.25: Using the MICE Quotient for Conflict
Published: June 21, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 38 seconds
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15.24: Keeping it Fresh, with Jim Butcher
Published: June 14, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 5 seconds
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15.23: Serialization
Published: June 7, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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15.22 Writing For Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale
Published: May 31, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 28 seconds
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15.21: Writing About Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale
Published: May 24, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds
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15.20: Mental Wellness and Writing
Published: May 17, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 39 seconds
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15.19: As You Know, This Episode Is About Exposition
Published: May 10, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds
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15.18: Finding a Community, with Shauna Hoffman
Published: May 3, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 24 seconds
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15.17: Asexual Representation
Published: April 26, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds
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15.16: Balancing Plot and Character
Published: April 19, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds
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15.14: Agent Query Trenches
Published: April 5, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 16 seconds
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15.13: Using Elections in Stories
Published: March 29, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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15.12: Writing the OtherBeing an Ally
Published: March 22, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 32 seconds
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15.11: Digital is Different, with Cory Doctorow
Published: March 15, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 3 seconds
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15.10: Evaluating Ideas
Published: March 8, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds
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15.09: Choose Your Own Adventurous Publishing Path
Published: March 1, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds
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15.08: Q&A on a Ship
Published: Feb. 23, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 39 seconds
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15.07: Creating Chapters
Published: Feb. 16, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds
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15.06: Prose and Cons, with Patrick Rothfuss
Published: Feb. 9, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 45 seconds
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15.05: Setting Goals for Your Career
Published: Feb. 2, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds
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15.04: Revision, with Patrick Rothfuss
Published: Jan. 26, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 6 seconds
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15.03: Self Publishing
Published: Jan. 19, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 14 seconds
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15.02: Writing Between the Lines
Published: Jan. 12, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 53 seconds
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15.01: Evolution of a Career
Published: Jan. 5, 2020, 11 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 46 seconds
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14.52: Game Mastering and Collaborative Storytelling, with Natasha Ence
Published: Dec. 29, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 25 seconds
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14.51: A Farewell to Worldbuilding
Published: Dec. 22, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 33 seconds
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14.50: Write What You... No.
Published: Dec. 15, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 21 seconds
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14.49: Customs and Mores
Published: Dec. 8, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds
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14.48: How to Practice Worldbuilding
Published: Dec. 1, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds
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14.47: Writing Characters With Physical Disabilities
Published: Nov. 24, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 55 seconds
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14.46: Unusual Resources
Published: Nov. 17, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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14.44: Realism vs. Rule-of-Cool
Published: Nov. 3, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes
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14.43: Sequencing Your Career Genome
Published: Oct. 27, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds
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14.42: Alternate History
Published: Oct. 20, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 49 seconds
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14.40: Deep vs. Wide
Published: Oct. 6, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds
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14.39: Positioning Your Book in the Marketplace
Published: Sept. 29, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 54 seconds
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14.38: Volunteer Opportunities for Writers, with Jared Quan
Published: Sept. 22, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 13 seconds
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14.37: Outlandish Impossibilities
Published: Sept. 15, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 59 seconds
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14.36: Languages and Naming
Published: Sept. 8, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 36 seconds
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14.35: What You Leave Out
Published: Sept. 1, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 32 seconds
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14.34: Author Branding
Published: Aug. 25, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 22 seconds
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14.33: Writing Imperfect Worlds
Published: Aug. 18, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 38 seconds
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Worldbuilding Gender Roles
Published: Aug. 11, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 26 seconds
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14.31: Cultural Setting as Conflict
Published: Aug. 6, 2019, 2:16 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds
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14.30: Eating Your Way to Better Worldbuilding
Published: July 28, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 23 seconds
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14.29: Field Research
Published: July 21, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 13 seconds
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14.28: Warfare and Weaponry
Published: July 14, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 43 seconds
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14.27: Natural Setting as Conflict
Published: July 7, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds
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14.26: Lessons from Aristotle, with Rob Kimbro
Published: June 30, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 4 seconds
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14.25: Choosing Your Agent
Published: June 23, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds
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14.24: Political Intrigue
Published: June 16, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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14.23: Governments Large and Small
Published: June 9, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 55 seconds
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14.22: Characters out of Their Depth
Published: June 2, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
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14.21: Writing The Other Yes, You Can!
Published: May 26, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 21 seconds
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14.20: Allegory in Fiction
Published: May 19, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 31 seconds
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14.19: Religion and Ritual
Published: May 12, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 2 seconds
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14.18: Setting as Theme
Published: May 5, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds
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14.17: Its Like Car Talk meets Welcome To Nightvale
Published: April 28, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds
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14.16: Your Setting is a Telegraph
Published: April 21, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds
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14.15: Technology
Published: April 14, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 13 seconds
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14.14: When To Tell
Published: April 7, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds
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WX 14.13: Obstacles vs. Complications
Published: March 31, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds
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14.12: Writing The Other Latinx Representation
Published: March 24, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 22 seconds
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14.11: Magic Without Rules
Published: March 17, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds
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14.10: Magic Systems
Published: March 10, 2019, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
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14.8: Worldbuilding Q&A #1
Published: Feb. 24, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 20 seconds
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14.7: How Weird is Too Weird?
Published: Feb. 17, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 56 seconds
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14.6: Fantasy and Science Fiction Races
Published: Feb. 10, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds
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14.5: Viewpoint as Worldbuilding
Published: Feb. 3, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 32 seconds
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14.04: Writing the OtherBisexual Characters
Published: Jan. 27, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds
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14.03: World of Hats
Published: Jan. 20, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds
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14.02: Geography and Biomes
Published: Jan. 13, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds
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14.01: Worldbuilding Begins! Up Front, or On the Fly?
Published: Jan. 6, 2019, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds
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13.52: Working Dad is a Spaceman
Published: Dec. 30, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds
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13.51: Wrap-up on the Year of Character
Published: Dec. 25, 2018, 3:13 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 28 seconds
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13.50: What Writers Get Wrong, with Zoraida Cordova
Published: Dec. 16, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 24 seconds
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13.49: How to Finish
Published: Dec. 9, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 25 seconds
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13.48: Character Death and Plot Armor
Published: Dec. 2, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 17 seconds
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13.47: Q&A on Fixing Characters
Published: Nov. 25, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 44 seconds
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13.46: The Unsexy Side of Space, with Bart Smith and Ben Hewett
Published: Nov. 18, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds
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NaNoWriMo 2018 Bonus Episode, with Mercedes Lackey
Published: Nov. 15, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds
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13.45: Next Level Narration
Published: Nov. 11, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 41 seconds
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NaNoWriMo 2018 Mini-Episode 2
Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 3 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 35 seconds
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13.44: Alien Characters
Published: Nov. 4, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds
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NaNoWriMo 2018 Mini-Episode 1
Published: Oct. 31, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 18 seconds
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13.43: Characters Who Are Smarter Than You Are
Published: Oct. 28, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 36 seconds
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13.42: Writing Excuses Talks to an Astronaut, with Special Guest Kjell Lindgren
Published: Oct. 21, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 26 seconds
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13.41: Fixing Character Problems, Part II
Published: Oct. 14, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 38 seconds
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13.40: Fixing Character Problems, Part I
Published: Oct. 7, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 7 seconds
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13.39: What Writers Get Wrong, With Wendy Tolliver
Published: Sept. 30, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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13.38: How to Find and Use Alpha Readers
Published: Sept. 23, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 19 seconds
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13.37: What Writers Get Wrong, with J.Y. Yang
Published: Sept. 16, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 7 seconds
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13.36: Confronting the Default
Published: Sept. 9, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 19 seconds
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13.35: Cliche vs. Archetype
Published: Sept. 2, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds
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13.34: Q&A on Character Arcs
Published: Aug. 26, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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13.b1: Bonus Episode Elephants and Death, with Lawrence Schoen
Published: Aug. 22, 2018, 1:02 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 11 seconds
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13.33: Reading Outside the Box
Published: Aug. 19, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds
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13.32: How To Handle Weighty Topics
Published: Aug. 12, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 2 seconds
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13.31: Learning to Listen as a Writer
Published: Aug. 5, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 47 seconds
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13.30: Project in Depth, THE CALCULATING STARS, with Kjell Lindgren
Published: July 29, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 31 minutes 25 seconds
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13.29: Iconic Heroes
Published: July 22, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds
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13.28: What Writers Get Wrong, with Wildstyle
Published: July 15, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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13.27: Characters as Foils
Published: July 8, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds
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13.26: Character Relationships
Published: July 1, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 24 seconds
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13.25: Our Journey With Character
Published: June 24, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 26 seconds
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13.24: What Writers Get Wrong, with Piper, Aliette, and Wesley, with special guest Ken Liu
Published: June 17, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds
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13.23: Internal Conflicts
Published: June 10, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 46 seconds
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13.22: Character Arcs
Published: June 3, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 10 seconds
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13.21: Q&A on Character Depth and Motivation
Published: May 27, 2018, 5 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 8 seconds
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13.20: Fear and Writing, with Emma Newman
Published: May 20, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 42 seconds
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13.18: Naturally Revealing Character Motivation
Published: May 6, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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13.17: What Writers Get Wrong, with Jamahl Crouch
Published: April 29, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds
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13.16: Avoiding Flat Characters
Published: April 22, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds
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13.15: What Writers Get Wrong, with Mike Stop Continues
Published: April 15, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds
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13.14: Character Nuance
Published: April 8, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds
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13.13: Character Voice
Published: April 1, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 40 seconds
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13.12: Q&A on Heroes, Villains, and Main Characters
Published: March 25, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds
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13.11: Writing Secondary Characters, with Charlaine Harris
Published: March 18, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds
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13.10: Handling a Large Cast
Published: March 11, 2018, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 14 seconds
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13.9: Quick Characterization
Published: March 4, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds
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13.8: Making Characters Distinctive
Published: Feb. 25, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 21 seconds
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13.7: What Writers Get Wrong, with Lou Perry
Published: Feb. 18, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 57 seconds
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13.6: External Conflicts for Characters
Published: Feb. 11, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds
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13.5: Villain, Antagonist, Obstacle
Published: Feb. 4, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
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13.4: Protagonists Who Arent Sympathetic
Published: Jan. 28, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 6 seconds
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13.3: What Writers Get Wrong, with Aliette de Bodard
Published: Jan. 21, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 16 seconds
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13.2: Writing Active Characters
Published: Jan. 14, 2018, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 23 seconds
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13.1: Hero, Protagonist, Main Character
Published: Jan. 7, 2018, 6:03 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
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12.53: Writing Excuses True Confessions
Published: Dec. 31, 2017, 6 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 29 seconds
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12.52: Cross-Genres as Gateways
Published: Dec. 24, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds
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12.51: Constructed Languages, with Dirk Elzinga
Published: Dec. 17, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 52 seconds
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12.49: Non-linear Narratives
Published: Dec. 3, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 40 seconds
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12.48: Q&A on Novels and Series, with Brian McClellan
Published: Nov. 26, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 1 second
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12.47: Screenwriting and the Writers Room, with JD Payne
Published: Nov. 19, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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12.46: Reinventing Yourself
Published: Nov. 12, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 20 seconds
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12.45: Structuring a Series
Published: Nov. 5, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 11 seconds
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12.44: NaNoWriMo 2017 Primer
Published: Oct. 29, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 41 seconds
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12.43: Serialized Storytelling
Published: Oct. 22, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 26 seconds
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12.42: Adapting Your Stories for Game Play, with Alan Bahr
Published: Oct. 15, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 28 seconds
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12.41: Raising the Stakes
Published: Oct. 8, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 16 seconds
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12.40: Structuring a Novel
Published: Oct. 1, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 54 seconds
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12.39: Q&A on Short(er) Fiction
Published: Sept. 24, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds
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12.38: What Do Editors Really Want, with Toni Weisskopf and Cat Rambo
Published: Sept. 17, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds
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12.36: Structuring a Mid-Length Piece
Published: Sept. 3, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 51 seconds
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12.35: Short Fiction Markets, with Spencer Ellsworth and guest host Beth Meacham
Published: Aug. 27, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
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12.34: Fulfilling the Readers Fantasy, with Brian McClellan
Published: Aug. 20, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds
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12.33: How to be Brief, Yet Powerful
Published: Aug. 13, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 36 seconds
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12.32: Structuring a Short Piece
Published: Aug. 6, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 5 seconds
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12.31: What Makes a Good Monster, with Courtney Alameda
Published: July 30, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds
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12.30: Tools for Writers
Published: July 23, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 46 seconds
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12.29: Oh Crap, the Cops are Here! with Joe McKinney
Published: July 16, 2017, 2 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 50 seconds
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12.28: Trimming and Expanding
Published: July 9, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 48 seconds
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12.27: Choosing a Length
Published: July 2, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 51 seconds
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12.26: Q&A on Outlining and Discovery Writing
Published: June 25, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds
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12.25: Hiring an Editor, with Callie Stoker
Published: June 18, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 51 seconds
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12.24: Creating Great Outlines
Published: June 11, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 48 seconds
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12.23: Proposals, Pitches, and Queries
Published: June 4, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 30 seconds
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12.22: Hybrid Outlining and Discovery Writing
Published: May 28, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 58 seconds
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12.21: Narrative Bumper Pool, with Bill Fawcett and Carrie Patel
Published: May 21, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds
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12.20: Retrofitting Structure into a First Draft
Published: May 14, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 25 seconds
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12.19: Structure on the Fly
Published: May 7, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds
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12.18: Gendered Dialect, with J.R. Johansson
Published: April 30, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 3 seconds
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12.17: Q&A on Style, Diction, and Paragraphing
Published: April 23, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 13 seconds
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12.16: Writing Crime Fiction with Brian Keene
Published: April 16, 2017, 9:10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 59 seconds
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12.15: Pacing With Chapters
Published: April 9, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 26 seconds
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12.14: Controlling Pacing with Structure
Published: April 3, 2017, 3:51 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 27 seconds
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12.13: Beautiful Prose, Purple Prose
Published: March 26, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 35 seconds
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12.12: Words as Words, with Linda Addison
Published: March 19, 2017, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 9 seconds
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12.10: Developing Your Own, Personal Style
Published: March 5, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds
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12.9: Q&A on Viewpoint
Published: Feb. 26, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 25 minutes 4 seconds
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12.8 Short Stories as Exploration, with Tananarive Due
Published: Feb. 19, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 27 seconds
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12.7: Description Through the Third Person Lens
Published: Feb. 12, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 29 seconds
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12.6: Variations on Third Person
Published: Feb. 5, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds
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12.5: Literary Fiction
Published: Jan. 29, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 20 seconds
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12.4: Hybrid Viewpoints
Published: Jan. 22, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 12 seconds
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12.3: Project in Depth, Risk Assessment, by Sandra Tayler
Published: Jan. 15, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds
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12.2: How to Nail Character Voice in First Person
Published: Jan. 8, 2017, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 29 seconds
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12.1: Variations on First Person
Published: Jan. 1, 2017, 7:45 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 51 seconds
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11.52: Elemental Ensemble Q&A, With Claudia Gray
Published: Dec. 24, 2016, 7 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 56 seconds
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11.51: Ensemble as a Sub-Genre, with Lynne M. Thomas
Published: Dec. 18, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 3 seconds
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11.50: Hand-Selling Your Book to Potential Readers, with Michael R. Underwood
Published: Dec. 11, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 8 seconds
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11.49: Elemental Ensemble, with Michael Damien Thomas
Published: Dec. 4, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 19 seconds
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11.Bonus-04: Fantasy Food, with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
Published: Nov. 29, 2016, 3:44 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds
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11.48: Elemental Issue Q&A, with DongWon Song
Published: Nov. 27, 2016, 8:41 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds
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11.47: Issue as a Subgenre, with Steven Barnes
Published: Nov. 20, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 22 seconds
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11.46: Colonialism, with Steven Barnes, Tempest Bradford, DongWon Song, and Shveta Thakrar
Published: Nov. 13, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 4 seconds
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11.45: Elemental Issue, with Desiree Burch
Published: Nov. 6, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 24 minutes 32 seconds
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11.Bonus-03: Some Books Have Maps in the Front, with Maurice Broaddus, Mur Lafferty, and James Sutter
Published: Nov. 3, 2016, 9:19 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds
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11.Bonus-02: Horrifying the Children, with Darren Shan
Published: Nov. 1, 2016, 12:22 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 34 seconds
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11.44: Project in Depth, GHOST TALKERS, by Mary Robinette Kowal
Published: Oct. 30, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 33 minutes 16 seconds
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11.43: Elemental Drama Q&A, with Tananarive Due
Published: Oct. 23, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 28 seconds
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11.42: Elemental Drama as a Sub-Genre
Published: Oct. 16, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 18 seconds
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11.Bonus-01: Characterization and Differentiation, with Robin Hobb
Published: Oct. 13, 2016, 3 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds
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11.41: The Editors Wish List, with Navah Wolfe
Published: Oct. 9, 2016, 7 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 3 seconds
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11.40: Elemental Drama
Published: Oct. 2, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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11.39: Elemental Relationship Q&A, with Greg van Eekhout
Published: Sept. 25, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds
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11.38: The Elemental Relationship as a Sub-Genre
Published: Sept. 18, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
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11.37: Casting Your Book, with Gama Martinez
Published: Sept. 11, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds
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11.36: The Elemental Relationship
Published: Sept. 4, 2016, 10:37 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds
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11.35: Elemental Humor Q&A with Victoria Schwab
Published: Aug. 28, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds
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11.34: Humor as a Sub-Genre
Published: Aug. 21, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 14 seconds
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11.33: Crossover Fiction, with Victoria Schwab
Published: Aug. 14, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 9 seconds
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11.32: The Element of Humor
Published: Aug. 7, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 23 seconds
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11.31: Futurism, with Trina Marie Phillips
Published: July 31, 2016, 10:01 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 47 seconds
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11.30: Elemental Thriller Q&A
Published: July 24, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 31 seconds
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11.29: Elemental Thriller as a Subgenre
Published: July 17, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 4 seconds
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11.28: Impostor Syndrome, with Alyssa Wong
Published: July 10, 2016, 10:01 p.m.Duration: 26 minutes 29 seconds
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11.27: The Elemental Thriller
Published: July 3, 2016, 10:02 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 33 seconds
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11.26: Elemental Mystery Q&A
Published: June 26, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 20 seconds
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11.25: Elemental Mystery is Everywhere
Published: June 19, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 26 seconds
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11.23: The Element of Mystery
Published: June 5, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 13 seconds
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11.22: Examining Unconscious Biases, with Shannon Hale
Published: May 29, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 33 seconds
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11.21: Q&A on Elemental Horror, with Steve Diamond
Published: May 22, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds
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11.20: Horror as a Subgenre
Published: May 15, 2016, 7:10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 6 seconds
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11.19: Fashion for Writers, with Rebecca McKinney
Published: May 8, 2016, 10:02 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds
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11.18: Elemental Horror
Published: May 1, 2016, 10:15 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 43 seconds
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11.17: Elemental Adventure Q&A
Published: April 24, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds
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11.16: Adventure as a Subgenre
Published: April 17, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes
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11.15: The Environment, with L.E. Modessit, Jr.
Published: April 10, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 22 seconds
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11.14: The Element of Adventure
Published: April 3, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 40 seconds
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11.13: Elemental Idea Q&A
Published: March 27, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds
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11.12: Idea as Subgenre, With Nancy Fulda
Published: March 20, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 36 seconds
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11.11: Self Publishing in 2016, with Michaelbrent Collings
Published: March 13, 2016, 10:44 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 14 seconds
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11.10: Idea, as Genre, with Nancy Fulda
Published: March 6, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds
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11.09: Q&A on the Element of Wonder
Published: Feb. 28, 2016, 8:08 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds
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11.08: Wonder as a Subgenre
Published: Feb. 21, 2016, 8 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds
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11.07: The Convention Survival Kit, with Gail Carriger
Published: Feb. 14, 2016, 7 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds
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11.06: The Element of Wonder
Published: Feb. 7, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 16 seconds
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11.05: Writing and World Building for Role Playing Games
Published: Jan. 31, 2016, 5:15 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 11 seconds
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11.04: Newtons Laws of Writing
Published: Jan. 24, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 18 seconds
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11.03: Layering The Elemental Genres
Published: Jan. 17, 2016, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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11.2: How To Get The Most Out Of A Conference, with Kathy Chung
Published: Jan. 10, 2016, 7:20 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds
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Writing Excuses 11.1: Introduction to Elemental Genre
Published: Jan. 3, 2016, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.52: Moving On, with Ellen Kushner
Published: Dec. 27, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.51: Q&A on Showing Your Work, with Daniel Jose Older
Published: Dec. 20, 2015, 11:51 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.50: How to Hand-Sell Your Manuscript to Agents and Editors, with Michael Underwood and Marco Palmieri
Published: Dec. 13, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 49 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.49: What Do I Do With This Thing Now?
Published: Dec. 6, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.48: Project in Depth, The Devils Only Friend
Published: Nov. 29, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.47: Q&A on Revision
Published: Nov. 22, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.46: How Do I Make This Pretty?
Published: Nov. 15, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 28 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.45: Q&A at the GenCon Writing Symposium, with Kameron Hurley, James L. Sutter, and Michael Underwood
Published: Nov. 8, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 8 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.44: How Do I Fix What is Broken?
Published: Nov. 1, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 32 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.43: Q&A on Endings, with Delia Sherman
Published: Oct. 25, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.42: How In The World Do I Tie All This Together?
Published: Oct. 18, 2015, 4:11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 56 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.41: Your Characters Moral Pendulum
Published: Oct. 11, 2015, 10:06 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.40: Whats the Difference Between Ending and Stopping?
Published: Oct. 4, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.39: Q&A on Plot Twists with Kevin J. Anderson
Published: Sept. 27, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.38: How Does Context Shape Dialog?
Published: Sept. 20, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.37: Being a Good Panelist and a Great Moderator, with Susan J. Morris and Marc Tassin
Published: Sept. 13, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 22 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.36: How Does Context Shape Plot Twists?
Published: Sept. 6, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.35: Breaking In, With Charlie N. Holmberg
Published: Aug. 30, 2015, 10:32 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 16 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.34: Q&A on Pacing
Published: Aug. 23, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.33: Combat, with Marie Brennan
Published: Aug. 16, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.32: How Do I Control the Speed of the Story?
Published: Aug. 9, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 9 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.31: How Do I Control the Readers Sense of Progress?
Published: Aug. 2, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 58 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.30: Q&A on Middles, with Marie Brennan
Published: July 26, 2015, 11:43 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 46 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.29: Why Should My Characters Fail Spectacularly?
Published: July 19, 2015, 11:56 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 37 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.28: Polytheism in Fiction, with Marie Brennan
Published: July 12, 2015, 9:58 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 34 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.27: Why Cant I Just Jump to the Ending?
Published: July 5, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 18 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.26: Q&A on Scenes and Description
Published: June 28, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.25: What Makes a Scene?
Published: June 21, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.24: Hooking Younger Readers
Published: June 14, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 25 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.23: Can You Tell Me How To Show?
Published: June 7, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 11 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.22: Project-in-DepthOf Noble Family
Published: May 31, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 30 minutes 45 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.21: Q&A on World Building
Published: May 24, 2015, 9:17 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.20: How Do I Write a Story, Not an Encyclopedia?
Published: May 17, 2015, 10:02 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.19: Intrigue
Published: May 10, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.18: Build an Entire World? Are You Crazy?
Published: May 3, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.17: Q&A on Beginnings
Published: April 26, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 16 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space?
Published: April 19, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.15: Worldbuilding Wilderness with Wes Chu
Published: April 12, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.14: How Much of the Beginning Needs to Come First?
Published: April 5, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 46 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.13: Where is My Story Going?
Published: March 30, 2015, 4:12 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 4 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu
Published: March 23, 2015, 3:05 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.11: Project In Depth: Parallel Perspectives
Published: March 15, 2015, 6:48 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.10: Q&A with the I Ching
Published: March 8, 2015, 10 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.9: Where is My Story Coming From?
Published: March 2, 2015, 4:05 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.8: Q&A on Character
Published: Feb. 22, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.7: Who Are All These People?
Published: Feb. 16, 2015, 3:18 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.6: The Worldbuilding Revolves Around Me (The Magical 1%)
Published: Feb. 9, 2015, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 42 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.5: What Do You Mean My Main Character is Boring?
Published: Feb. 2, 2015, 5:11 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.4: Q&A on Ideas
Published: Jan. 25, 2015, 11 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds
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2015 Hugo Award Eligibility SHADOWS BENEATH
Published: Jan. 21, 2015, 4:27 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 45 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.3: Lovecraftian Horror
Published: Jan. 20, 2015, 4:32 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 43 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.2: I Have an Idea; What Do I Do Now?
Published: Jan. 12, 2015, 3:01 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds
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Writing Excuses 10.1: Seriously, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
Published: Jan. 5, 2015, 2:32 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.54: Capstone to Season 9
Published: Dec. 29, 2014, 5:51 p.m.Duration: 29 minutes 54 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.53: Writing For Fun
Published: Dec. 22, 2014, 1:21 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 9.52: From the Page to the Stage
Published: Dec. 15, 2014, 4:46 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.51: Q&A At The Retreat
Published: Dec. 8, 2014, 2:09 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.50: Writing for the Enfranchised Reader
Published: Dec. 4, 2014, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.48: Neurobolics of Characters
Published: Dec. 1, 2014, 1:23 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.49: Hiding the Open Grave
Published: Nov. 24, 2014, 3:01 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.47: Conversation With a Bookseller
Published: Nov. 18, 2014, 1:24 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.46: Disability in Narrative
Published: Nov. 9, 2014, 11 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 41 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.45: Tools for Writing from Oral Storytelling
Published: Nov. 3, 2014, 12:27 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.44: Getting in the Writers Mindset with Peter Beagle
Published: Oct. 27, 2014, 2:06 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.43: Writing Mysteries
Published: Oct. 20, 2014, midnightDuration: 17 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.42: The Convention-Author Relationship, with Deirdre Saoirse Moen
Published: Oct. 12, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 27 minutes 26 seconds
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Registration is open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat
Published: Oct. 9, 2014, 1 p.m.Duration: 8 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.41: Fan Writing, with Christopher J. Garcia
Published: Oct. 5, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 1 second
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Writing Excuses 9.40: Understanding Royalties, with Paul Stevens
Published: Sept. 28, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.39: Publicity for Books
Published: Sept. 22, 2014, 3:29 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.38: Q&A at Westercon
Published: Sept. 15, 2014, 2:17 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 22 seconds
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9.37: Training A Critique Group, with Kathleen Dalton Woodbury
Published: Sept. 8, 2014, 1:39 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.36: Writing Instruction
Published: Sept. 1, 2014, 1:03 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 29 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.35: What to do when you disagree with your editor
Published: Aug. 24, 2014, 11:11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 54 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education
Published: Aug. 17, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 50 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.33: Microcasting
Published: Aug. 10, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.32: Adjusting Character Proactivity
Published: Aug. 3, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.31: Critiquing An Honest Death
Published: July 27, 2014, 11:36 p.m.Duration: 32 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.30: Critiquing A Fire in the Heavens
Published: July 20, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.29: Part 2 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk
Published: July 13, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.28: Part 1 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk
Published: July 6, 2014, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.27: Pre-writing
Published: June 30, 2014, 1:47 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 58 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.26: Adjusting Character Competence
Published: June 23, 2014, 3:40 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.25: Adjusting Character Sympathy
Published: June 16, 2014, 2:34 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 55 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.24: Side Quests
Published: June 9, 2014, 4:45 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.23: World Building Without Breaking Viewpoint
Published: June 2, 2014, 12:20 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 24 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.22: Microcasting
Published: May 26, 2014, 12:57 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.21: Sandersons 3rd Law
Published: May 19, 2014, 1:26 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 42 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.20: Creator vs Creation
Published: May 12, 2014, 12:06 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 36 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.19: Showing Emotion
Published: May 5, 2014, midnightDuration: 17 minutes 49 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.18: Microcasting
Published: April 28, 2014, 2:50 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.17: Microcasting
Published: April 21, 2014, 4:49 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 54 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.16: Coming up with a New Ending Halfway Through
Published: April 16, 2014, 2:55 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 45 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.15: Becoming a WriterFull Disclosure
Published: April 7, 2014, 1:29 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 18 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.14: How to have an Opinion as a Public Figure
Published: April 4, 2014, 3:11 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.13: Three Pronged Character Development
Published: March 30, 2014, 11:11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 5 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.12: Microcasting! Twice in a row!
Published: March 24, 2014, 3:30 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.11: Microcasting
Published: March 17, 2014, 3:48 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.10: Engaging Characters
Published: March 10, 2014, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.9: What to do When Truth is Stranger than Fiction
Published: March 3, 2014, 1:37 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.8: When is your Handwavium Good Enough?
Published: Feb. 24, 2014, 5:10 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.7: Last Pass Revisions with Eric James Stone
Published: Feb. 16, 2014, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.6: The Experience of Time
Published: Feb. 10, 2014, 2:33 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 16 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.5: Hijacking the Knowledge You Already Have, with Mette Ivie Harrison
Published: Feb. 3, 2014, 4:35 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.4: Artificial Intelligence with Nancy Fulda
Published: Jan. 27, 2014, 2:47 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.3: Character Perception vs. Narrative Perception with Nancy Fulda
Published: Jan. 19, 2014, 9 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.2: Hard Science Fiction with Eric James Stone
Published: Jan. 13, 2014, 1:32 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 9.1: Chronology of a Book Deal with Eric James Stone
Published: Jan. 6, 2014, 3:24 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 16 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.52: You Think You Dont Have Time to Write, with Mette Ivie Harrison
Published: Dec. 30, 2013, 5:37 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 30 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.51: Creative non-fiction with Mette Ivie Harrison
Published: Dec. 23, 2013, 2:59 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.50: Q&A with Mercedes Lackey
Published: Dec. 15, 2013, 11 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.49: Hard Social Science Fiction with Joel Shepherd
Published: Dec. 8, 2013, 11:20 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.48: Long-Form Storytelling with Sam Logan
Published: Dec. 1, 2013, 10:01 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 43 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.47: Roguishness with Scott Lynch
Published: Nov. 25, 2013, 12:02 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.46: Editing with Aeryn Rudel
Published: Nov. 17, 2013, 11:53 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.45: Gencon Q&A With Wesley Chu
Published: Nov. 11, 2013, 1:13 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 55 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.44: Talking Publishing with Tom Doherty
Published: Nov. 3, 2013, 9:27 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 12 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.43: Realistic Melee Fighting with Wesley Chu
Published: Oct. 27, 2013, 9:56 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.42: The Internal Heckler vs. The Internal Editor
Published: Oct. 20, 2013, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 32 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.41: Out of Excuses Retreat Microcasting
Published: Oct. 14, 2013, 7:03 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.40: Publishing with Bill Schafer
Published: Oct. 7, 2013, 2:12 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 29 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.39: Dystopian Fiction with Cherie Priest
Published: Sept. 30, 2013, 1:38 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.38:Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #2
Published: Sept. 23, 2013, 12:41 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 33 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.37: When Fail Happens in Your Career
Published: Sept. 16, 2013, 1:37 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 29 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.36: Transitioning Characters in Prominence
Published: Sept. 8, 2013, 10 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 50 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.35: Digging Yourself Out of Holes with Jeph Jacques
Published: Sept. 1, 2013, 9 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.34: Survivorship Bias
Published: Aug. 26, 2013, 12:22 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable
Published: Aug. 18, 2013, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 32 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting
Published: Aug. 11, 2013, 11 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.31: Combining Dialogue, Blocking, and Description
Published: Aug. 4, 2013, 9:02 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.30: Writing Reluctant Characters
Published: July 29, 2013, midnightDuration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.29: Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #1
Published: July 22, 2013, midnightDuration: 19 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.28: Your First Contract
Published: July 14, 2013, 11:46 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns
Published: July 7, 2013, 11:51 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.26: Space Opera
Published: June 30, 2013, 11:55 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.25: Middle Grade with E.J. Patten
Published: June 23, 2013, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.24: Project in DepthKiss Me Twice
Published: June 16, 2013, 10 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.23: Microcasting
Published: June 9, 2013, 10 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 17 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.22: Pre-writing with E.J. Patten
Published: June 2, 2013, 11:20 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 34 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.21: What the Avengers did Right
Published: May 26, 2013, 2:56 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.20: The Short Story, with Mary Robinette Kowal
Published: May 19, 2013, 9:47 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 33 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.19: Writing and Convention Culture
Published: May 12, 2013, 11:25 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 58 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.18: Blocking
Published: May 6, 2013, midnightDuration: 18 minutes 11 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.17: Microcasting
Published: April 28, 2013, 11:31 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.16: Brainstorming with Brandon Again
Published: April 22, 2013, 5:03 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes
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Writing Excuses 8.15: Narrative Rhythm
Published: April 15, 2013, 12:58 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.14: Brainstorming with Brandon
Published: April 7, 2013, 11:28 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.13: Fake It Till You Make it
Published: April 1, 2013, 1:38 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 29 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.12: Project in Depth Deus ex Nauseum
Published: March 24, 2013, 9:57 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.11: Abnormal Psychology
Published: March 18, 2013, 2:55 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 4 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.10: Brainstorming With Howard Again
Published: March 11, 2013, 12:07 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 8 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.9: Brainstorming with Howard
Published: March 4, 2013, 12:48 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 12 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.8: Writing and Personal Health
Published: Feb. 25, 2013, 3:03 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 41 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.7: Cliffhangers and Icebergs with Robison Wells
Published: Feb. 17, 2013, 9:08 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.6: Retellings and Adaptations
Published: Feb. 11, 2013, 2:08 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 27 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.5: Breaking the Rules
Published: Feb. 4, 2013, 4:35 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 19 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.4: Side-Character Arcs
Published: Jan. 28, 2013, 3:20 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.3: Pets
Published: Jan. 21, 2013, 6:43 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 43 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.2: Heros Journey
Published: Jan. 13, 2013, 11 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses 8.1: Microcasting
Published: Jan. 6, 2013, 11:38 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 43 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.54: Four Ways the Industry is Changing
Published: Dec. 31, 2012, 1:20 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.53: Secret History
Published: Dec. 26, 2012, 8:28 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 41 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.52: Microcasting
Published: Dec. 17, 2012, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.51: Brainstorming with Mary
Published: Dec. 12, 2012, 5:06 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 33 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.50: Outlining the Mary Way
Published: Dec. 10, 2012, 5:20 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.49: Beginnings Revisited
Published: Dec. 3, 2012, 2:53 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 43 seconds
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NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Episode 4, with Mary & Brandon
Published: Nov. 29, 2012, 3:21 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 14 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.48: Pixar Rules for Writing a Compelling Story
Published: Nov. 26, 2012, 2:44 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 58 seconds
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NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Episode 3, with Howard
Published: Nov. 23, 2012, 4:24 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 34 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.47: Raising the Stakes
Published: Nov. 19, 2012, 2:19 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 52 seconds
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NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Mini-Episode 2, with Dan & Rob
Published: Nov. 15, 2012, 2:33 a.m.Duration: 4 minutes 19 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.46: Project in Depth The Emperors Soul
Published: Nov. 12, 2012, 3:23 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 16 seconds
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NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Mini-Episode 1, with Brandon & Mary
Published: Nov. 8, 2012, 3:52 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.45: Microcasting
Published: Nov. 5, 2012, 8:37 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.44: Writing for Comics with Jim Zub
Published: Oct. 29, 2012, 12:25 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 31 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.43: Tie-in Fantasy Fiction with James L Sutter
Published: Oct. 22, 2012, 3:33 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes
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Writing Excuses 7.42: Contemporary YA Fiction
Published: Oct. 15, 2012, 2:47 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 30 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.41: Seven-Point Story Structure
Published: Oct. 7, 2012, 10:38 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 14 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.40: Writing the Other
Published: Oct. 1, 2012, 12:52 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 4 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.39: Death
Published: Sept. 23, 2012, 11:57 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 17 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.38: Writing Love Scenes
Published: Sept. 16, 2012, 10:29 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.37: Pantsing
Published: Sept. 10, 2012, 1:39 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.35: Brainstorming with Dan
Published: Sept. 2, 2012, 10 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.36: Writing Gaming Fiction with Monte Cook
Published: Aug. 27, 2012, 1:10 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.34: How to Start the Next One
Published: Aug. 19, 2012, 10 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.33: Authentic Emotion
Published: Aug. 13, 2012, 12:34 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.32: Astronomy 101 for Writers
Published: Aug. 6, 2012, 2:02 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.31: Project in Depth Hollow City
Published: July 30, 2012, 1:07 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.30: Micocasting...Again!
Published: July 23, 2012, midnightDuration: 19 minutes 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.29: The Villain Problem
Published: July 15, 2012, 3:28 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.28: Project in Depth Glamour in Glass
Published: July 9, 2012, 2:48 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 1 second
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Writing Excuses 7.27: The Problem of Originality
Published: July 2, 2012, 3:34 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.26: Q&A at UVU part 2
Published: June 25, 2012, 12:23 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers
Published: June 17, 2012, 11:33 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.24: Project in Depth Way of Kings
Published: June 10, 2012, 11 p.m.Duration: 23 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.23: Time Travel
Published: June 3, 2012, 9:45 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting
Published: May 27, 2012, 11:27 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 10 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.21: Project In Depth Force Multiplication
Published: May 21, 2012, 3:35 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.20: Cathartic Horror
Published: May 14, 2012, 4:26 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 31 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.19: Q&A at UVU
Published: May 7, 2012, 3:33 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.18: Discovering your Voice
Published: April 30, 2012, 12:22 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.17: Guns and Fiction
Published: April 23, 2012, 4:30 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 54 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.16: Continuing with Marys Outline
Published: April 16, 2012, 12:29 a.m.Duration: 25 minutes 14 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.15: Editing Marys Outline
Published: April 9, 2012, 1:20 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 34 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.14: Writing Excuses
Published: April 1, 2012, 3 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.13: Man Vs. Nature
Published: March 25, 2012, 11 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.12: Writing the Omniscient Viewpoint
Published: March 18, 2012, 11 p.m.Duration: 22 minutes 21 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.11: More Microcasting
Published: March 12, 2012, 12:43 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 42 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.10: Importance of Criticism, with David Brin
Published: March 5, 2012, 2:45 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.9: Microcasting
Published: Feb. 27, 2012, 1:48 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.8: The City as a Character
Published: Feb. 20, 2012, 12:48 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.7: Historical Fantasy
Published: Feb. 13, 2012, 3:15 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.6: Behind the Marshmallow
Published: Feb. 6, 2012, 3:43 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.5: Sensory Writing
Published: Jan. 30, 2012, 2 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity
Published: Jan. 23, 2012, midnightDuration: 15 minutes 17 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.3: Fauna and Flora
Published: Jan. 16, 2012, 12:45 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 36 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.2: World Building Flora and Fauna
Published: Jan. 9, 2012, 5:13 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 7.1 When Good Characters Go Bad
Published: Jan. 2, 2012, 1:35 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 41 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.30: Help! I Cant End My Book!
Published: Dec. 26, 2011, 1:58 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.29: Character Foils
Published: Dec. 19, 2011, 5:49 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.28: Interstitial Art
Published: Dec. 12, 2011, 12:49 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 55 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.27: Fantasy Setting Yard Sale
Published: Dec. 4, 2011, 11:54 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 21 seconds
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NaNoWriMo Pep-talk from Howard
Published: Nov. 30, 2011, 11 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 25 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.26: Mystery Plotting
Published: Nov. 28, 2011, 1:42 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 18 seconds
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Dan
Published: Nov. 23, 2011, 7:08 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.25: When Characters do Dumb Things
Published: Nov. 21, 2011, 1:44 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Mary
Published: Nov. 17, 2011, 12:32 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.24: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
Published: Nov. 14, 2011, 1:24 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Brandon
Published: Nov. 9, 2011, 3:35 p.m.Duration: 1 minute 12 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.23: Pigeon Holes
Published: Nov. 7, 2011, 12:02 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.22: Continuing Education for Writers
Published: Oct. 31, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 1 second
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Writing Excuses 6.21: Brainstorming From Story Seeds
Published: Oct. 24, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.20: Endings
Published: Oct. 17, 2011, 1:11 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 54 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.19: Pitching
Published: Oct. 10, 2011, 1:53 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 3 seconds
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6.18: The Hollywood Formula, with Lou Anders
Published: Oct. 2, 2011, 11:35 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.17: Writing Assistants
Published: Sept. 25, 2011, 11:13 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 10 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.16: Gender RolesBlack, White, and Gray
Published: Sept. 19, 2011, 1:42 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 11 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.15: Writing Other Cultures
Published: Sept. 12, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 56 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.14: Suspension of Disbelief
Published: Sept. 5, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.13: World Building Communications Technology
Published: Aug. 29, 2011, 1:46 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 24 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.12: Revising For Description
Published: Aug. 22, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.11: Making Your Descriptions Do More Than One Thing
Published: Aug. 15, 2011, midnightDuration: 18 minutes 24 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.10: Scott Cards M.I.C.E. Quotient
Published: Aug. 8, 2011, midnightDuration: 17 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.9: Microcasting 2 Electric Boogaloo
Published: July 31, 2011, 3:29 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.8: What an Agent Does
Published: July 25, 2011, 1:10 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.7: Brainstorming a Cyberpunk Story
Published: July 18, 2011, 12:07 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 12 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.6: Cyberpunk
Published: July 11, 2011, 12:56 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 42 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.5: Query Letters
Published: July 4, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.4: Microcasting
Published: June 27, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 10 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.3: Professional Organizations
Published: June 20, 2011, 2 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations
Published: June 13, 2011, 2 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 12 seconds
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Writing Excuses 6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?
Published: June 6, 2011, midnightDuration: 18 minutes 58 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.39: Filking and Writing Music with Tom Smith
Published: May 30, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.38: Dialog with John Scalzi
Published: May 23, 2011, 1:21 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.37: Parody and Satire with Jim Hines
Published: May 16, 2011, 2:16 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 16 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.36: Non-Traditional Settings with Saladin Ahmed
Published: May 9, 2011, 2:37 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.35: Brainstorming Urban Fantasy
Published: May 2, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 19 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.34: Story Bibles
Published: April 24, 2011, 10:42 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses on the 2011 Hugo Ballot
Published: April 24, 2011, 10:18 p.m.Duration: 5 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.33: Alpha Readers
Published: April 17, 2011, 11:55 p.m.Duration: 20 minutes 37 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.32: Urban Fantasy
Published: April 10, 2011, 10:27 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.31: Writing Romance
Published: April 4, 2011, 4:59 a.m.Duration: 23 minutes 16 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.30: Writing Action
Published: March 28, 2011, 2:08 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 30 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.29: Rewriting
Published: March 21, 2011, midnightDuration: 18 minutes 37 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.28: E-publishing
Published: March 14, 2011, 1:18 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes
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Writing Excuses 5.27: Perseverance, with Sherrilyn Kenyon
Published: March 7, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 4 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.26: Scared for the Characters
Published: Feb. 28, 2011, 5:11 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.25: Writing in Other Peoples Universes
Published: Feb. 21, 2011, 1:46 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 13 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.24: The Authors Responsibility to the Reader
Published: Feb. 14, 2011, 3:14 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.23: Life Day!
Published: Feb. 7, 2011, 4 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 13 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.22: Film Considerations
Published: Jan. 31, 2011, 1:12 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 26 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.21: Alternate History
Published: Jan. 24, 2011, 2 a.m.Duration: 22 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.20: More Dialog Exercises
Published: Jan. 17, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 24 minutes 11 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.19: Fulfilling Promises to Your Readers
Published: Jan. 10, 2011, 1 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.18: Offending Your Readers
Published: Jan. 3, 2011, 2:50 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.17: Dialog Exercises
Published: Dec. 28, 2010, 3:27 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 29 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.16: Critiquing Dans First Novel
Published: Dec. 20, 2010, 2:05 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.12: Time Travel!
Published: Dec. 13, 2010, 3:17 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.15: Steampunk with Scott Westerfeld
Published: Dec. 6, 2010, 2:06 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.14: Visual Components of Novels with Scott Westerfeld
Published: Nov. 29, 2010, 2:12 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.13: Writing the Second Book
Published: Nov. 22, 2010, 2:46 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 9 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.12: The Secret of Lincolns Gold
Published: Nov. 22, 2010, 2:21 a.m.Duration: 11 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.11: MicroPodcasting 2
Published: Nov. 15, 2010, 2:50 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 1 second
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Writing Excuses 5.10: John Brown and the Creative Process
Published: Nov. 8, 2010, 2 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 56 seconds
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Writing Excuses Bonus Episode! Voting in the Service of a Dark God
Published: Nov. 2, 2010, 3:52 a.m.Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.9: Character Arcs
Published: Nov. 1, 2010, 12:10 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 26 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.8: The Excuses Youre Out Of
Published: Oct. 25, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.7: Avoiding Melodrama
Published: Oct. 17, 2010, 11:36 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 57 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.6.01: Flash Fiction
Published: Oct. 12, 2010, 1:49 p.m.Duration: 15 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.6: MicroPodcasts
Published: Oct. 10, 2010, 11:58 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.5: Writing the Unfamiliar
Published: Oct. 4, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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Parsec Acceptance Speech 2010
Published: Sept. 28, 2010, 4:43 p.m.Duration: 2 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.4: Creating Suspense
Published: Sept. 27, 2010, 2:26 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses 5.3: First Person Viewpoint
Published: Sept. 19, 2010, 10:37 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 7 seconds
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WE 5.2: Character Quirks
Published: Sept. 12, 2010, 10:38 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 48 seconds
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WE 5.1: Third Person Limited
Published: Sept. 7, 2010, 7:53 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.34: Q&A at Dragons & Fairy Tales
Published: Aug. 29, 2010, 11 p.m.Duration: 21 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.33: Trunk Novels
Published: Aug. 23, 2010, 3:17 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 1 second
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Writing Excuses 4.32: First Paragraphs
Published: Aug. 16, 2010, 2:44 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.31: Line Editing Dialog
Published: Aug. 9, 2010, 2 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.30: Worldbuilding the Future
Published: Aug. 2, 2010, 1:14 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.29: Line Editing
Published: July 26, 2010, 12:50 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.28: Brainstorming The End and Working Backwards
Published: July 19, 2010, 2:21 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 26 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.27: Major Overhauls to Broken Stories
Published: July 12, 2010, 3:28 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.26: Avoiding Stilted Dialog
Published: July 5, 2010, 4:45 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 58 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.25: Mating Plumage
Published: June 27, 2010, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 45 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.24: Random Storytelling
Published: June 20, 2010, 11 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.23: How to Break In to the Young Adult Market
Published: June 13, 2010, 11 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.22: Q&A with L.E. Modesitt, Jr
Published: June 7, 2010, 12:45 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.21: Writing Practical Fantasy
Published: May 31, 2010, 4:26 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 1 second
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Writing Excuses 4.20: Strategies for Getting Published
Published: May 24, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.19: Discovery Writing
Published: May 17, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.18: How to Steal for Fun and Profit
Published: May 10, 2010, 12:58 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.17: Living with the Artist
Published: May 3, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 19 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.16: Breaking the Fourth Wall
Published: April 26, 2010, 2 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 42 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.15: Visual Components of Storytelling
Published: April 19, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 8 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.14: Brainstorming Science Ideas
Published: April 12, 2010, 12:45 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.13: Juggling Multiple Viewpoints
Published: April 5, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes
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Writing Excuses 4.12: Writing An Epic
Published: March 29, 2010, 2 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 26 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.11: Brainstorming From Headlines
Published: March 22, 2010, 2:47 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 37 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.10: Writing for Young Adults
Published: March 14, 2010, 10:14 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 14 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.9: How to Write Men, with Jessica Day George
Published: March 8, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.8: Working with Editors
Published: March 1, 2010, 2:17 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 5 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.7: Q&A with James Dashner
Published: Feb. 22, 2010, 1:32 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.6: Pacing with James Dashner
Published: Feb. 15, 2010, 1:39 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 18 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.5: Roleplaying Games as Tools for Story Telling
Published: Feb. 8, 2010, 3 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.4: Agents. Do you need one?
Published: Feb. 1, 2010, 2:56 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.3: How to Manage Your Influences
Published: Jan. 25, 2010, 2:32 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 5 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.2: Heroism
Published: Jan. 17, 2010, 11:41 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing Excuses 4.1: Types of Humor
Published: Jan. 11, 2010, 5:07 p.m.Duration: 19 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 32: Collaboration
Published: Jan. 4, 2010, 2:02 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 50 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 31: Tragedy
Published: Dec. 28, 2009, 1:21 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 55 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 29: Antiheroes
Published: Dec. 20, 2009, 11:12 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 58 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 30: Unreliable Narrators
Published: Dec. 14, 2009, 6:30 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 31 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 28: World-Building Gender Roles
Published: Dec. 7, 2009, 3:28 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 9 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 27: Mixing Humor with Drama and Horror
Published: Dec. 1, 2009, 6:07 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 26: NaNoWriMo
Published: Nov. 23, 2009, 3:02 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 25: The Business of Writing Comics
Published: Nov. 16, 2009, 6:11 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 33 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 24: Writing Comics with Jake Black
Published: Nov. 9, 2009, 2:13 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 23: How to Write Without Twists
Published: Nov. 2, 2009, 4:15 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 41 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 22: Idea to Story
Published: Oct. 25, 2009, 11:23 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 49 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 21: Pitfalls of Self Publishing with Larry Correia
Published: Oct. 19, 2009, 2:28 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 54 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 20: Plot- vs. Character-Driven Fiction
Published: Oct. 12, 2009, 3:55 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 50 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 19: Emotion in Fiction with John Brown
Published: Oct. 5, 2009, 12:53 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 18: How To Not Repeat Yourself
Published: Sept. 28, 2009, 4 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 17: Characters & Worldbuilding Q&A with Mary Robinette Kowal
Published: Sept. 21, 2009, 12:55 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 48 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 16: The Anti-Mary Sue Episode
Published: Sept. 13, 2009, 11:54 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 43 seconds
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Writing Excuses: Parsec Award Acceptance Speech
Published: Sept. 13, 2009, 11:40 p.m.Duration: 3 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 15: Writing Process Q&A, with Mary Robinette Kowal
Published: Sept. 6, 2009, 10:47 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 45 seconds
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3.14: The Four Principles of Puppetry, with Mary Robinette Kowal
Published: Aug. 31, 2009, 4:44 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 19 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 13: Dialects and In-World Jargon
Published: Aug. 24, 2009, 3:28 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 21 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 12: Subplots
Published: Aug. 17, 2009, 1:05 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 5 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 11: Trimming
Published: Aug. 9, 2009, 6:47 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 32 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 10: The Dos and Donts of Attending Cons
Published: Aug. 3, 2009, 2:12 a.m.Duration: 19 minutes 37 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 9: Conventions You Should Be Attending
Published: July 27, 2009, 1:24 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 6 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 8: What Star Trek Did Right
Published: July 20, 2009, 8:35 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 7: Genre Blending
Published: July 13, 2009, 1:29 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 30 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 6: Dramatic Breaks
Published: July 7, 2009, 4:59 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 18 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 5: How to Take Criticism
Published: June 29, 2009, 2:29 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 28 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 3: Stumping Howard at Conduit
Published: June 22, 2009, 2:53 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 17 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 2: Keeping it Real with Aprilynne Pike
Published: June 15, 2009, 3:41 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 21 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 4: Non Linear Story Telling
Published: June 8, 2009, 7:02 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 1: World-Building History
Published: June 1, 2009, 3:33 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 33: How To Not Be Overwhelmed
Published: May 25, 2009, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 32: The Most Important Thing Dan Learned In The Last Year
Published: May 18, 2009, 3:30 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 31: The Most Important Thing Brandon Learned In The Last Year
Published: May 11, 2009, 5:10 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 30: The Most Important Thing Howard Learned In The Last Year
Published: May 3, 2009, 11:34 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 29: How not to end your book
Published: April 27, 2009, 3:40 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 28: Applying Critical Reading: Watchmen
Published: April 20, 2009, 12:49 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 37 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 27: Reading Critically
Published: April 13, 2009, 12:43 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 26: How Publishing is Changing in the new Century
Published: April 6, 2009, 12:37 a.m.Duration: 21 minutes 35 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 632: Now that weve got time travel what do we do with it?
Published: April 1, 2009, 7:48 a.m.Duration: 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 25: The Seven Deadly Sins of Slush Stories
Published: March 30, 2009, 2:04 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 34 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 24: Writing Habits and Q&A with Tracy Hickman
Published: March 24, 2009, 4:45 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 11 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 23: Avoiding the Cliche with Tracy Hickman
Published: March 16, 2009, 2:19 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 13 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 22: Marketing 201, Branding for Authors
Published: March 9, 2009, 2:53 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 39 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 21: Fight Scenes
Published: March 2, 2009, 4:16 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 49 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 20: Marketing 101 for Creators
Published: Feb. 23, 2009, 3:27 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 33 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 19: Do Creative Writing Classes Help
Published: Feb. 16, 2009, 4:32 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 18: World Building Governments
Published: Feb. 9, 2009, 5:51 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 56 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 17: Website Marketing for Authors
Published: Feb. 2, 2009, 7:31 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 18 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 16: Non-Human Races
Published: Jan. 26, 2009, 3:50 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 15: Knowing When To Begin
Published: Jan. 19, 2009, 4:46 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 41 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 14: Writing Habits
Published: Jan. 12, 2009, 4:23 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 32 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 13: Violence
Published: Jan. 5, 2009, 4:32 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 43 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 12: Theme
Published: Dec. 29, 2008, 6:35 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 5 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 11: Talking Publishing and Writing with Dave Wolverton
Published: Dec. 22, 2008, 3:50 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 34 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 10: The Boring Parts
Published: Dec. 15, 2008, 3:15 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 9: Romance, with Dave Wolverton
Published: Dec. 8, 2008, 4:22 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 8: The Three Act Structure with Bob Defendi
Published: Dec. 1, 2008, 9:07 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 9 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 7: Using Writing Formulas with Bob Defendi
Published: Nov. 24, 2008, 3:44 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 38 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 6: Endings
Published: Nov. 17, 2008, 12:42 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 5: Writing Groups
Published: Nov. 11, 2008, 5:50 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 4 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 4:View point, Plot Twists and Being a Part-Time Writer with Eric James Stone
Published: Nov. 3, 2008, 3:19 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 3: Characters with Brandon Mull
Published: Oct. 27, 2008, 2:05 p.m.Duration: 17 minutes 17 seconds
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Writing Season 2 Episode 2: How to Write for Children with Brandon Mull
Published: Oct. 20, 2008, 4:28 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 29 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Bonus Episode 1: Live at the Mistborn 3 Release
Published: Oct. 17, 2008, 3:42 a.m.Duration: 20 minutes 32 seconds
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 1: Q&A on Setting and Characters at Mountain Con with John Brown
Published: Oct. 13, 2008, 6:58 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 43 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 35: Voice, Tone and Style
Published: Oct. 6, 2008, 3:43 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 47 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 34: What The Dark Knight Did Right
Published: Sept. 29, 2008, 2:46 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 33: Side Characters
Published: Sept. 22, 2008, 9:55 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 14 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episodes 32: Talking Exposition with Patrick Rothfuss
Published: Sept. 15, 2008, 12:49 p.m.Duration: 18 minutes 42 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 31: Talking RPG and Game Writing with Steve Jackson
Published: Sept. 8, 2008, 3:40 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 41 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 30: Talking Revision with Moshe Feder
Published: Sept. 2, 2008, 2:32 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 21 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 29: Talking Publishing with Lou Anders
Published: Aug. 25, 2008, 4:38 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 28: Writing for Webcomics with Phil and Kaja Foglio
Published: Aug. 18, 2008, 12:21 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 37 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 27: World-Building Religion
Published: Aug. 11, 2008, 2:46 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 23 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 26: Horror
Published: Aug. 5, 2008, 1:36 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 22 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 25: Viewpoint and Tense Part 2
Published: July 28, 2008, 3:31 p.m.Duration: 14 minutes 51 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 24: Research
Published: July 21, 2008, 2:25 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 24 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 23: Viewpoint
Published: July 15, 2008, 2:12 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 22: Doing The Unpopular
Published: July 7, 2008, 2:04 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 53 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 21: Humor
Published: June 30, 2008, 2:21 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 20: More Q&A from Conduit
Published: June 23, 2008, 3:09 a.m.Duration: 18 minutes 4 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 19: Plot Twists
Published: June 16, 2008, 3:08 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 18: Q&A at Conduit
Published: June 9, 2008, 3:13 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 29 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 17: This Sucks and Im a Horrible Writer
Published: June 2, 2008, 2:11 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 40 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 16: Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard
Published: May 26, 2008, 2:13 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 20 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 15: Costs and Ramifications of Magic
Published: May 19, 2008, 1:09 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 36 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 14: Magic Systems and their Rules
Published: May 12, 2008, 2:47 p.m.Duration: 15 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 13: Submitting to Editors Part 2
Published: May 5, 2008, 5:11 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 59 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 12: Submitting to Editors Part 1
Published: April 28, 2008, 3:28 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 52 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 11: The Business of Writing
Published: April 21, 2008, 12:39 p.m.Duration: 16 minutes 8 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 10: Pacing
Published: April 14, 2008, 5:18 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 3 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 9: Sci-Fi Sub-Genre
Published: April 7, 2008, 4:56 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 27 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 8: Sci-Fi Genre
Published: March 31, 2008, 4:40 a.m.Duration: 13 minutes 56 seconds
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Writing Excuses Bonus Episode 2: Rules of Writing Excuses
Published: March 24, 2008, 4:04 a.m.Duration: 3 minutes 2 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 7: Villains
Published: March 24, 2008, 2:19 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 22 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 6: Flaws vs Handicaps
Published: March 17, 2008, 2:36 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 19 seconds
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Writing Excuses Bonus Episode 1: Remembering Gary Gygax
Published: March 10, 2008, 4:23 a.m.Duration: 7 minutes 29 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 5: Heroes and Protagonists
Published: March 10, 2008, 3:37 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 45 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 4: Beginnings
Published: March 3, 2008, 5:52 a.m.Duration: 15 minutes 25 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 3: Killing your Darlings
Published: Feb. 25, 2008, 6:16 a.m.Duration: 16 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 2: Blending the Familiar and the Original
Published: Feb. 18, 2008, 4:40 a.m.Duration: 14 minutes 44 seconds
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Writing Excuses Episode 1: Brainstorming
Published: Feb. 11, 2008, 5:16 a.m.Duration: 17 minutes 14 seconds
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