Writing Excuses

Steve Diamond joins us to kick off our month on the elemental genre of horror. We explore the emotional components that readers seek from horror, and then drill down into the ways that we can create t...

1 Touko 201621min

You may still have questions about how to apply elemental adventure in your work. Hopefully your questions are similar to the ones we collected below, because these are the ones we answered: * What ...

24 Huhti 201622min

Let's be adventurous. Let's move beyond simply being cooks, and strive to become chefs. In this episode we explore using the element of adventure as an ingredient in something that has far more than a...

17 Huhti 201623min

L.E. Modesitt, Jr. joined us at LTUE for a world building discussion centered around the way the environment informs the story. We talk about lead in Roman plumbing, water lilies in Las Vegas sewers, ...

10 Huhti 201617min

We'll be looking at the element of adventure in April. Our exploration begins with a description and definition of this element, and how it is discreet from other elemental genres. The easiest way to...

3 Huhti 201620min

Shannon Hale joined us at LTUE 2016 to field questions about the Idea elemental genre. Here are the questions: * How do you keep an elemental idea story from feeling like you're just waiting for the...

27 Maalis 201616min

Nancy Fulda is back for our second episode on the Idea elemental genre. We cover some tools for exploring an idea, and then drill down a bit on how to use that exploration, or even multiple exploratio...

20 Maalis 201619min

Recorded live at LTUE, Michaelbrent Collings guest-starred for a discussion about self publishing. The landscape continues to change, and Collings is fully engaged in it. He begins by stressing the i...

13 Maalis 201618min