Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Lari, and special guest Erin Roberts
We’ve received a number of questions about the ‘tools of the trade’ for organizing our work, especially with regard to worldbuilding. In this episode we talk about what we use, including some old-school analog tools like sticky notes and ballpoint pens.
Credits: this episode was recorded remotely, and mastered by Alex Jackson
How do you proceed when the story you want to write includes elements that make you personally uncomfortable? In this episode we step out of our own comfort zones to examine this challenge, and to offer some strategies to you.
Credits: This episode was recorded remotely, and mastered by Alex Jackson
Many Writing Excuses listeners have asked us how we muscle through writing second acts, those big, chonky “middles” of our stories. In this episode we attempt to provide answers.
Credits: This episode was recorded by Dan Thompson, and mastered by Alex Jackson. The title of this episode is a nod to the second Dirk Gently novel from Douglas Adams.
Take a favorite book, movie, or whatever: attempt to identify where the second act begins and ends. Then make a list of what you love about the second act. Now take that list, and map it onto your OWN second act, in order to build a second act that you love.
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, and Lari, with special guest Erin Roberts
Erin Roberts joins us for a discussion of short story markets—a topic which is very susceptible to “churn” because of the way short story markets come and go. We cover how to research and evaluate the various markets based on what youneed from publication, and what you might reasonably expect from them.
Credits: This episode was recorded remotely during the Great Isolation, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
