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Registration is now open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat. For the last two years the event has had a very limited size, and as a result has sold out very quickly. For 2015 we have moved to a new venue, removed the attendance limit, and…
Pre-writing: It’s like pre-cooking, only with more abandoned prologues and fewer refried beans.
The applications have been reviewed, re-reviewed, sorted, parsed, and very meticulously evaluated, and the time has come to announce the recipient of the 2014 scholarship for the Out of Excuses seminar and retreat. Congratulations, Julie Rodriguez! Julie has been notified by email and has accepted. We’re all looking forward to…
Howard here. Let me cut straight to the exercise: Describe the problems you currently have with the Writing Excuses website, but do so without describing solutions to those problems. and then… Describe things that work the best for you, or things that you enjoy the most at the Writing Excuses site, but…
If you wanted to register for the Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat and didn’t get in, I’m hoping that you might be interested in the Writing the Other Workshop and Retreat. It’s held at the same location, Mary Robinette Kowal’s parents’ house. Mary will be joined by NY Times…
As we announced in November, we are holding the second annual Out of Excuses Retreat this year, September 29 through October 5. Last year’s retreat was a huge success, and we’re excited to be doing it again, and we’re especially excited to be offering another scholarship. Even better, this year’s…
Announcing the 2nd annual “Out of Excuses” Workshop and Retreat! Registration opens on January 18th, and the event will likely sell out very quickly.
Writing Excuses won the 2013 Hugo Award for “Best Related Work,” and the team is grateful to our listeners, the WSFS voters, and of course our many guests.
It’s been a long few months of writing, applying, and nervously waiting, but the time has come. We have carefully reviewed your applications—all 73 of them—and painstakingly narrowed the field to a few exceptional finalists. Of those we have chosen one winner, whom we notified yesterday, and now that she has…
