Writing Excuses 5.8: The Excuses Youre Out Of

Published: Oct. 25, 2010, 3 a.m.

We're off to a great start, with a dangling preposition right there in the title.
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\nWe end each podcast with the tagline "you're out of excuses, now go write," but many people still come up with plenty of excuses. How does the professional writer deal with these sorts of things? We talk about the absence of the muse, the wrong space, the absence of ideas, discouragement, lack of time, distractions, and pants.
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\nHoward's pants, of course.
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\nAudiobook Pick-of-the-Week: Hyperion, by Dan Simmons.
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\nWriting Prompt: You need to change your shoes, or something awful is going to happen.
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\nFull Circle: Pants at the beginning and the end. Oh, good. That means we wore them the whole time.
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