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Archive Seasons 11-15, Career and Lifestyle, Season 15, Theory and Technique

15.37: Writing Under Deadlines

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Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard

What’s it like to write under a deadline which has been set for your project by someone else? What strategies might help you bring the writing in under the deadline?  Can you train yourself to be ready for this?

Those are all good questions. Hopefully we won’t run out of time to come up with answers…

Credits: This episode was recorded by Dan Thompson, and mastered by Alex Jackson.

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Experiment with a “stay on target” time management tool, like the Forest focus app, or something similar.

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Archive Seasons 7-10, Career and Lifestyle, Season 09

Writing Excuses 9.53: Writing For Fun

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You know what’s fun? WRITING! Writing is fun. And that, more than anything else, is why we do it.

Or at least it’s why we decided to do it. Making sure that it is still fun is kind of tricky. Also tricky? Writing for nothing more than the fun of it. And this episode is about that.

Missing from this episode: Mary. For contractual reasons we found ourselves in need of 54 episodes during Season 9, and that meant an emergency recording session while Mary was on the road. It also meant you got 54 weekly episodes this year!

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Legion: Skin Deep, by Brandon Sanderson, narrated by Oliver Wyman