Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 3: Characters with Brandon Mull
No matter how grand your setting, how intense your conflicts, or how tight your plot, at some point you're going to need characters. Join us as we discuss what makes a character interesting, memorable...
27 Okt 200817min
Writing Season 2 Episode 2: How to Write for Children with Brandon Mull
Kids these days with their long hair and their love of reading. It's like, get off my lawn, am I right? But in other news, kids (meaning anything from chapter books to mature YA) read a TON, and someb...
20 Okt 200820min
Writing Excuses Season 2 Bonus Episode 1: Live at the Mistborn 3 Release
We talk among ourselves about some episodes of this podcast being "crunchy" and others being "fluffy." "Crunchy" episodes are the ones where we have hard advice about writing. "Fluffy" episodes are th...
17 Okt 200820min
Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 1: Q&A on Setting and Characters at Mountain Con with John Brown
You didn't think we'd just keep going with the same old stuff forever, did you? Well, actually we are, but now we're calling it Season 2. This season begins with a series of episodes recorded at Mount...
13 Okt 200815min
Writing Excuses Episode 35: Voice, Tone and Style
Everyone says you can't teach style--each writer just has to figure it out on his or her own. Well, we here at Writing Excuses have never met an ultimatum we didn't immediately challenge, so today we...
6 Okt 200816min
Writing Excuses Episode 34: What The Dark Knight Did Right
Like all right-thinking people, we loved The Dark Knight--but because we are also writers obsessed with the craft of storytelling, we liked it for very specific, very nerdy reasons. Join us as we take...
29 Sep 200816min
Writing Excuses Episode 33: Side Characters
Just as no burger is complete without its fries, no protagonist is complete without his sidekick, or his mother, or his entomologist, or whatever side character you decide to give him. This week we ta...
22 Sep 200816min
Writing Excuses Episodes 32: Talking Exposition with Patrick Rothfuss
In this, the last of our WorldCon 66 episodes, Brandon, Dan, and Howard interview Name of the Wind author Patrick Rothfuss. We discuss exposition, and how not to bore people as you move them through t...
15 Sep 200818min
