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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...

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Writing 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...

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Writing 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....

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Writing 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...

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Writing 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...

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Writing 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...

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Writing 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...

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Writing 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...

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Writing 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...

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Writing 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...

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Writing Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns

How do we break our books into chapters, and how to we build those chapters to begin with?

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Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting

Q&A covering workflow, contests, lantern-hanging, word counts, and more

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Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable

How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction?

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Writing Excuses 8.38:Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #2

The cast talks about self publishing, our early career difficulties, Easter Eggs, and more...

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Writing Excuses 8.45: Gencon Q&A With Wesley Chu

Wes Chu joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard for a live audience Q&A at GenCon

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Writing 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...

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Writing Excuses 8.49: Hard Social Science Fiction with Joel Shepherd

Joel Shepherd joins Brandon, Mary, and Howard to talk about hard social science.

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Writing 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.

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Writing Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education

Brad "Doctor Zombie" Voytek talks to us about making science accessible and attractive through science fiction.

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Writing 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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