What is your “voice” and how do you identify it? James Artimus Owen joins us for this discussion before a live audience at Life, The Universe, and Everything at Utah Valley University.
Tools, not rules. For writers, by writers.
Guest and gun-nut Larry Correia joins the Writing Excuses crew to talk firearms, fiction, and common mistakes.
Brandon and Mary school Howard on “Man vs. Nature.” They might school the rest of us, too.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field seven questions in fifteen minutes and forty-two seconds: a new land-speed record!
David Brin joins Mary and Dan for a discussion of the importance of criticism.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard field questions from Twitter, including what to do if you don’t like your characters, keeping your plot on track, and how grounded in real geography your urban fantasy should be. There is also a question about bacon.
Sarah Pinborough joins Mary and Dan at World Fantasy for a very writerly discussion of London. Also, they discuss using a city as a character.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about Historical Fantasy (differentiating it from Alternate History), its popularity, and how you might go about beginning to write it.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard talk about fictional ecologies.
How do you take a good character and make them evil? And why would you want to do this? Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard answer that second question first, and then walk you through the process of doing this.