Writing Excuses

Sandra Tayler, Dawn Wells, and Kenny Pike  take over the 'cast with some coaching from Dan (and heckling from Howard)  to talk about what it's like to live with an artist. We cover the ups and the dow...

3 Touko 201016min

Isaac Stewart, interior artist for the Mistborn books and Rocket Road-Tripper joins us again for a discussion of the fourth wall, and the breaking thereof. We talk about the theatrical origins of the ...

26 Huhti 201017min

Isaac Stewart, the interior artist for the Mistborn books, joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of the visual elements in our work, and how to make them cohere. We talk about the yellow ball-on-a...

19 Huhti 201017min

Our last brainstorming 'cast was so well-received we decided to do another one. This time we grabbed articles from a New Scientist article called "13 More Things We Don't Understand." Dark flow, hybr...

12 Huhti 201017min

We called "can-of-worms" on multiple viewpoints last week because the topic is too big to share the 'cast with anything else. We talk about why multiple viewpoints are useful, and then how to do it we...

5 Huhti 201018min

"Dude, that's totally epic." "Epic fail! Epic fail!" These phrases have only passing relation to epic storytelling, and to epic fantasy. Brandon and Howard write epics, and we're going to talk about...

29 Maalis 201017min

Let's mix things up a bit, shall we? Your Writing Excuses hosts are going to brainstorm for you, and we're going into it completely cold. By "cold" we mean to say that we have no idea what fodder we'r...

22 Maalis 201015min

Jessica Day George joins the Writing Excuses crew again, this time for a discussion of writing for young adults, and maybe for teens, or even middle-grade readers. This isn't a podcast about rigidly d...

14 Maalis 201018min