Does your draft have a boring main character? You’re not alone! Also, the problem can be solved.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
At the Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat we premiered the Season 10 concept, and we invited our attendees to give us the questions we need this month. (They’ll also be the ones providing our questions for February, but we’ll cast our net wide for questions in March.) Ideas are hard!…
Don’t forget to nominate for the 2015 Hugo Ballot, and if you like Writing Excuses, please consider nominating Shadows Beneath for Best Related Work.
Cherie Priest joins us for a discussion of Lovecraftian horror.
Writing Excuses Season 10, the podcasted master-class, continues with this exploration of that critical second step: what do do once you’ve got an idea that has story-legs. (Note: When we say “two weeks ago” over and over, that’s just bad math. You haven’t missed an episode.) We talk about our…
Brandon, Howard, Mary, and Dan offer useful answers to that age-old question: “Where do you get your ideas?”