Writing Excuses 8.49: Hard Social Science Fiction with Joel Shepherd
Joel Shepherd joined Brandon, Mary, and Howard before a live audience at GenCon Indy to talk about writing hard science fiction where the science in question is social science. He’s studied...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.28: Part 1 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk
This is the first of our DANGER SPOILERS AHEAD story critique episodes. The story, “Sixth of the Dusk,” is available as part of SHADOWS BENEATH, the Writing Excuses anthology, which includes the...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education
When Writing Excuses was invited to be guests of honor at Westercon 67, we had the opportunity to interview numerous guests of the convention, each of whom were luminaries in their respective fields....
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.35: What to do when you disagree with your editor
Peter Orullian joined us in front of a live audience at Westercon to talk with us about dealing with editors. We usually talk about craft, but this is a business discussion, and it’s about one of the...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.40: Understanding Royalties, with Paul Stevens
Paul Stevens, an editor at Tor, joined us in front of a live audience at Westercon 67 to talk about royalties. After a brief definition of the term, he explains how royalties are calculated, how...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.41: Fan Writing, with Christopher J. Garcia
Hugo Award-winner Christopher J. Garcia, publisher and editor of The Drink Tank, joins us for a discussion of fan writing, . We start with a definition of terms – fan writing technically covers...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.42: The Convention-Author Relationship, with Deirdre...
How does a convention play into your career as an author? How might you expect to be participating in programming? How, in short, do you get to be on panels? Deirdre Saoirse Moen, who organizes fan-run...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.43: Writing Mysteries
Live from Westercon 67 and Fantasy Con, Mette Ivie Harrison and J.R. Johannson join us to talk about writing for the mystery genre. We begin by talking about the key differences between thrillers and...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.44: Getting in the Writer’s Mindset with Peter Beagle
We were thrilled to have Peter Beagle join us for an episode, recorded live at Westercon 67. We talked about the writer’s mindset, and how to get into it. Peter schooled Brandon before the episode even...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.46: Disability in Narrative
Charlie Harmon, one of the luminaries of Utah area fandom, joined us to talk about disability in narrative. She’s been going blind gradually since she was a child, and these days while she can see some...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns
How do we break our books into chapters, and how to we build those chapters to begin with?
View ArticleWriting Excuses 8.32: Microcasting
Q&A covering workflow, contests, lantern-hanging, word counts, and more
View ArticleWriting Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable
How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction?
View ArticleWriting Excuses 8.38:Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #2
The cast talks about self publishing, our early career difficulties, Easter Eggs, and more...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 8.45: Gencon Q&A With Wesley Chu
Wes Chu joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard for a live audience Q&A at GenCon
View ArticleWriting Excuses 8.47: Roguishness with Scott Lynch
Scott Lynch, author of The Republic of Thieves, joins Brandon, Howard, and Mary before a live audience at GenCon Indy to talk about roguishness. Why do we like rogues? What can a roguish character...
View ArticleWriting Excuses 8.49: Hard Social Science Fiction with Joel Shepherd
Joel Shepherd joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard to talk about hard social science.
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.28: Part 1 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk
The first of the SHADOWS BENEATH critique episodes, in which we thrash on a new Cosmere story from Brandon Sanderson so that he can fix it. Part 1 of 2.
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education
Brad "Doctor Zombie" Voytek talks to us about making science accessible and attractive through science fiction.
View ArticleWriting Excuses 9.35: What to do when you disagree with your editor
Peter Orullian joins us to discuss managing the author-editor relationship when things go wrong.
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