Media Specialist Kiley Snyder joins us to talk about hooking young readers.
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mary talk about the Hero’s Journey. Finally.
Do we value originality too much? What does it mean to be original, and how can we, as authors, write wonderful things when all of the good ideas have already been used?
Recorded live, our regular ‘casters discuss time travel, and somehow manage not to become any of their own parents, or even uncles.
We begin our discussion of Urban Fantasy with a discussion of definitions, which quickly devolves into an argument over what we are actually supposed to be talking about. Moving right along, we explore what sorts of things we find in an Urban Fantasy, and what sorts of rules these stories…
Jessica Day George joins the Writing Excuses crew again, this time for a discussion of writing for young adults, and maybe for teens, or even middle-grade readers. This isn’t a podcast about rigidly defining the boundary between the YA and middle-grade genres, though. That’s publishing. We’re talking about writing. If you…