Writing Excuses

Last week we talked about reading critically, reading as writers. This week we decided to apply that critical reading skill to Watchmen, the Hugo award-winning graphic novel by Alan Moore, illustrated...

20 Apr 200918min

As a writer you obviously know how to read. But being a writer changes how you read, and what you read, and even why you read. Do you read more, or less as a writer? How do you read so that your readi...

13 Apr 200916min

Nancy Fulda, assistant editor at Baen's Universe and  editor-in-chief and founder of Anthology Builder, joins us again while Dan Wells is out celebrating his birthday. We discuss the rise of digital S...

6 Apr 200921min

This... THIS is why speculative fiction writers should never be trusted with actual technology. Our Sponsors: * Check out HomeServe and use my code homeserve.com/excuses for a great deal: https://www...

1 Apr 200939s

Nancy Fulda fills in for Dan for this week's episode (he was sick, she was in town, huzzah!) but she's more than just "filling in." She's FEATURED. Nancy is the assistant editor for Jim Baen's Univers...

30 Mar 200916min

Tracy Hickman joins us again at "Life, The Universe, and Everything," and in this episode we let Brandon ask him random questions while Dan and Howard chime in with comments that hopefully don't detra...

24 Mar 200918min

We took Writing Excuses on the road last month for "Life, The Universe, and Everything," the symposium on Science Fiction and Fantasy at Brigham Young University. The Guests of Honor were Tracy and La...

16 Mar 200916min

"Branding,"  not "Brandon," just so we're clear. Brand-ING. We open with the definition of "branding," talking about what it is, and (just as importantly) what it is not. With that out of the way we ...

9 Mar 200917min