Writing Excuses 4.9: How to Write Men, with Jessica Day George
Jessica Day George joins us again, this time to tell us how to write men. Brace yourselves for the bandying-about of generalities, for painting with broad brushes, and for assorted other potential po...
8 Mar 201017min
Writing Excuses 4.8: Working with Editors
Jessica Day George, author of The Dragon Slippers and a host of other things, joins us to talk about working with editors, and she's got stories to tell. But so do Dan and Brandon. And hey, surprise! ...
1 Mar 201017min
Writing Excuses 4.7: Q&A with James Dashner
Recorded live at LTUE 2010, here's a high-energy Q&A session with the Writing Excuses crew and our special guest James Dashner, author of The Maze Runner. We cover outlining vs. discovery writing, the...
22 Feb 201016min
Writing Excuses 4.6: Pacing with James Dashner
This episode was recorded live at Life, The Universe, & Everything 28, The BYU Symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy, and features, among other things, our largest audience ever. Oh, and James Das...
15 Feb 201017min
Writing Excuses 4.5: Roleplaying Games as Tools for Story Telling
Roll for initiative, folks! Brandon, Dan, and Howard all play tabletop role-playing games, and sometimes even play together. The question of the hour (well... quarter-hour) is "how can these games hel...
8 Feb 201016min
Writing Excuses 4.4: Agents. Do you need one?
We're going to wade into a recent e-brouhaha, but it's not going to be the Amazon vs Macmillan one. No, this is the one where Dean Wesley Smith argued that authors do not need agents. But you don't ne...
1 Feb 201016min
Writing Excuses 4.3: How to Manage Your Influences
How do you avoid letting other people's work creep into your own? We're all influenced by the media we partake in whether we admit it or not. How much of those influences should we allow into our own ...
25 Jan 201019min
Writing Excuses 4.2: Heroism
If you want to write a good, heroic hero, this is the podcast for you. We're not necessarily talking about the archetypical, classically-defined, capital-H "Hero" in this podcast, though. We're talkin...
17 Jan 201017min
