Writing Excuses 5.13: Writing the Second Book
How do you write the second book? Zombie John Brown joins us for a discussion of that second novel. (Note: As of this writing, John Brown remains NOT DEAD. Not UNDEAD, mind you. NOT DEAD. John D. Bro...
22 Marras 201019min
Writing Excuses 5.12: The Secret of Lincoln’s Gold
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22 Marras 201011s
Writing Excuses 5.11: MicroPodcasting 2
It was so popular when we did it the first time, we decided to do it again. Here's a second rapid-fire Q&A, with questions coming to us from Twitter, Facebook, and email. * How do you do bad things ...
15 Marras 201016min
Writing Excuses 5.10: John Brown and the Creative Process
The now cancer-free John Brown joins us again, this time for a discussion of the creative process. John has presented a seminar on this subject in the past, the focus of which is to teach people to un...
8 Marras 201016min
Writing Excuses Bonus Episode! Voting in the Service of a Dark God
This bonus episode is what happens when there are two things we want to plug, and we decide to try and blend them in a single PSA. Here's the Amazon link for the paperback release of John Brown's fir...
2 Marras 20101min
Writing Excuses 5.9: Character Arcs
John Brown joins us this week for a discussion of plot threads specific to characters. These can be the main plot thread, interesting sub-plots, or just things that shape characters. Sometimes they're...
1 Marras 201019min
Writing Excuses 5.8: The Excuses You’re Out Of
We're off to a great start, with a dangling preposition right there in the title. We end each podcast with the tagline "you're out of excuses, now go write," but many people still come up with plenty...
25 Loka 201019min
Writing Excuses 5.7: Avoiding Melodrama
Melodrama. What is it? What do people mean when they say something is too melodramatic? Usually they do NOT mean "it's too much like a classical melodrama," but it helps if we start with that definit...
17 Loka 201016min
