Writing Excuses 10.46: How Do I Make This Pretty?
The microphones again find us aboard the Independence of the Seas*, to talk about how terribly ugly this manuscript is, and what we can do to make it pretty. In this episode we drill down on line-by-l...
15 Nov 201523min
Writing Excuses 10.45: Q&A at the GenCon Writing Symposium, with Kameron Hurley, James L. Sutter, and Michael Underwood
Dan and Howard are joined by Kameron Hurley, James L. Sutter, and Michael Underwood for an anything-goes Q&A at the GenCon Indy Writing Symposium. We had reached the end of our two-hour block, but the...
8 Nov 201527min
Writing Excuses 10.44: How Do I Fix What is Broken?
November is "Revision" month here in the Writing Excuses Season 10 Master Class, so while many of you may be tempted by NaNoWriMo, there's a different kind of work to be done... Delia Sherman joins us...
1 Nov 201521min
Writing Excuses 10.43: Q&A on Endings, with Delia Sherman
Delia Sherman joined us aboard the Independence of the Seas for our question-and-answer installment on endings. The questions came from the attendees at the Writing Excuses Workshop, which was, lest a...
25 Okt 201522min
Writing Excuses 10.42: How In The World Do I Tie All This Together?
Nalo Hopkinson joins us again, at sea, for our second Master Class installment on endings. We cover some of the reasons why an ending might not be working, and then talk about the sorts of diagnoses t...
18 Okt 201521min
Writing Excuses 10.41: Your Character’s Moral Pendulum
Brad Beaulieu and Jaym Gates join us from the GenCon Indy Writing Symposium to talk about good versus evil, and how your character might swing between the two. And it's all about that swing. Moral gre...
11 Okt 201516min
Writing Excuses 10.40: What’s the Difference Between Ending and Stopping?
Nalo Hopkinson joins us for this episode, which we recorded before a live audience of Out Of Excuses Workshop & Retreat attendees. October's master class episodes focus on endings, and in this first i...
4 Okt 201518min
Writing Excuses 10.39: Q&A on Plot Twists with Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson joined us at Sasquan/WorldCon 73 to take questions about plot twists. Here are the questions that came in from our live audience: * Genre Twists: good, bad, or ugly? * Can you com...
27 Sep 201517min
