Microcasting… it’s what we call Q&A. Beta readers, IP issues, discovery writing, chapter length, and more.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
How do you go about transitioning characters in relative prominence during a series of books?
The cast answers questions about publishing, formatting, process, and the Evil Nemesis John Scalzi.
How do we break our books into chapters, and how to we build those chapters to begin with?
Brandon, Dan, Mary, Howard, and guest E.J. Patten answer a slew of questions about writing and the business of writing.
E.J. Patten joins us to talk about pre-writing — all that work that gets done before the prose happens.
Writing Excuses tackles water from the perspective of the fish. Also? The culture surrounding writers.
The Writing Excuses Crew fields questions about crossed genres, literary fiction, magical realism, and more.
We begin with an audio glitch and a jumbling of our usual intro. Why? Because it breaks rhythm, and sometimes you may actually want to do that. Narrative rhythm is the pattern of story elements and associated structures that help drive the reader’s pace through a book. Consciously managed, narrative…
The cast grills Howard about “Deus ex Nauseum,” the bonus story from Emperor Pius Dei