Writing Excuses

What do you do when, halfway through the book you're writing, you realize it needs to be completely rebuilt? More importantly, how do you figure this out in the first place? This podcast came about as...

12 Jul 201018min

"As you know, we'll be discussing stilted dialog" said Howard. "We should do something different for the introduction." "Let's speak our dialog tags" said Brandon cleverly. "We mustn't forget to inc...

5 Jul 201016min

James Dashner and Julie Wright join Brandon and Dan for an episode about what Lou Anders called "Mating Plumage" back in this 2008 episode of Writing Excuses recorded at Denvention. Lou was just refer...

27 Jun 201018min

James Dashner and Julie Wright join Brandon and Dan at CONduit in Salt Lake City, and may end up wishing they hadn't. Brandon throws sets of story concepts at the crew, and asks them to quickly frame ...

20 Jun 201018min

Janci Patterson and Robison Wells join Brandon and Dan at CONduit in Salt Lake City. Both Janci and Rob have recently signed book deals, Robison with Harper Teen, and Janci with Henry Holt, and they t...

13 Jun 201015min

Recorded live at CONduit with the inestimably valuable help of our friends at Dungeon Crawlers Radio, here's an episode full of the randomness that is "questions from the audience." These include: *...

7 Jun 201018min

Coming to you "live" from CONduit, Writing Excuses is pleased to welcome fantasy superstar L.E. Modesitt (plus a slightly different Howard, by which we mean that Howard was out of town and replaced by...

31 Mai 201015min

Your hosts here at Writing Excuses have tried to answer the "how to get published" question before. We're going to try again. In this episode we begin with a discussion of New Media. Welcome to the A...

24 Mai 201019min