Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
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?”
Recorded live in front of the Out of Excuses students, a crowd of savvy readers if ever there was one, we talk about how to effectively write for readers who are familiar with the genre or story structure in which we’re writing. It’s a tricky problem, since genre fiction is…
So, you’re planning to kill somebody, but you don’t want anyone to see it coming. How do you make that happen? We begin by talking about the hints that writers inadvertently drop, and why they drop those hints. Then we look at how to write without sending those cues, and…
Q&A in which we cover proofreading, writing time, career stuff, and no, you can’t have any of our DNA.
The fourth of the SHADOWS BENEATH critique episodes, in which Howard is stuck…
The third of the SHADOWS BENEATH critique episodes, in which Mary schools us with Milford…
In which we discuss adjusting how competent our characters appear…
Prologues, motivations, and research, oh my!
When building your world, go deep rather than going wide.
