Writing Excuses

Scott Westerfeld joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of the visual components of novels. His novel Leviathan is set in an alternate history 1914, and is designed to look like a book from 1914, c...

29 Nov 201015min

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 Nov 201019min

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22 Nov 201011s

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 Nov 201016min

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 Nov 201016min

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 Nov 20101min

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 Nov 201019min

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 Okt 201019min