Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
It’s time for a Q&A on characters! The questions for this episode were provided by the attendees at the 2014 Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat: How do you have a character grow in power and/or expertise without needing to ridiculously overpower the villains? How do you give a flawed…
At the Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat we premiered the Season 10 concept, and we invited our attendees to give us the questions we need this month. (They’ll also be the ones providing our questions for February, but we’ll cast our net wide for questions in March.) Ideas are hard!…
If there’s a crowd with good questions, it’s the Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat attendees. Given the trend toward moral ambiguity, is there still a place for an unquestionably evil character? Should you publish a first book that isn’t in the style or genre that you’re ultimately interested in?…
Peter Orullian joins us in front of a live audience at Westercon 67 for a Q&A. The questions include: As a writer, how do you handle reviewing other people’s books? How do you compartmentalize your writing to prevent that obsession from displacing everything else? (Here are the signs we talked about)…
Q&A in which we cover proofreading, writing time, career stuff, and no, you can’t have any of our DNA.
Prologues, motivations, and research, oh my!
A Q&A episode with Eric James Stone
A Q&A covering editing, rule-breaking, writing the other, gift-giving, and more.
Eric James Stone joins us to answer questions about editors, pitching, pantsing, and encouragement.
Mercedes Lackey joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard to field listener questions at GenCon Indy.
