How do you know which bits of your story have to come first?
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
How do you know which bits of your story have to come first?
The applications have been reviewed, re-reviewed, sorted, parsed, and very meticulously evaluated, and the time has come to announce the recipient of the 2014 scholarship for the Out of Excuses seminar and retreat. Congratulations, Julie Rodriguez! Julie has been notified by email and has accepted. We’re all looking forward to…
Howard here. Let me cut straight to the exercise: Describe the problems you currently have with the Writing Excuses website, but do so without describing solutions to those problems. and then… Describe things that work the best for you, or things that you enjoy the most at the Writing Excuses site, but…
Announcing the 2nd annual “Out of Excuses” Workshop and Retreat! Registration opens on January 18th, and the event will likely sell out very quickly.
Last year we announced the first ever Writing Excuses Retreat, and an awesome scholarship to go along with it. We’ve never done an event like this before, but we feel pretty good about it, and we think it will be a big help to a lot of writers, and we…
Howard Tayler gives NaNoWriMo participants a pep-talk on their way into the last week of the month.
Dan Wells walks us through the seven-point story structure format he uses, and then we demonstrate by brainstorming this on a sample story.
Killing characters for all the right reasons, and knowing what the wrong ones are.
First and foremost: a close examination of the rules for Hugo Nominations reveals that Writing Excuses Season 4 is eligible to be nominated under the “Best Related Work” category. If you attended WorldCon in Melbourne, or if you already have your Renovation membership, you’re eligible to do some nominating. So,…
It has just come to our attention that Writing Excuses has been nominated for the 2010 Podcast Awards: The People’s Choice under the Education category. If you are a “people” and would like to make Writing Excuses your “choice,” visit podcastawards.com and vote! You may vote once every 24 hours…