E.J. Patten joins us again, this to discuss the particulars of writing middle-grade fiction.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Writing Excuses tackles water from the perspective of the fish. Also? The culture surrounding writers.
Mary, Howard, Dan, and Brandon talk about the things we do to feel like professionals.
Mary Robinette Kowal schools Brandon, Dan, and Howard with her outlining system.
A microcast is our word for an asynchronous Q&A episode: you ask us tons of questions online, either through twitter or facebook or our listenermail account (on the sidebar), and we want to answer as many of them as we can. Not every answer can fill an entire episode, though,…
In this particularly self-indulgent episode of Writing Excuses we take you behind the marshmallow. We explain the origins of the ‘cast, and offer you rare insight into what makes this show what it is. We talk about how the show evolved, how our equipment came to be “borrowed,” and how Mary came to be involved.
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman from the Interstitial Arts Foundation join Mary Robinette Kowal and Dan Wells to talk about the gaps between genres.
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary discuss communications technology, and how the ability for characters to communicate is a critical piece of your world-building, whether you’re writing science-fiction, fantasy, or pretty much anything else.
Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard take questions from the Twitterverse ranging from outlining, character creation, and plot-hole repair to skill development and writing groups.
Saladin Ahmed, Nebula- and Campbell-award nominee joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of setting — specifically, setting an epic fantasy in something besides the traditional, Western European middle ages.