Writing Excuses 10.14: How Much of the Beginning Needs to Come First?
April is all about beginnings, at least as far as Season 10's syllabus is concerned. So let's start! The cool stuff you plan to put in your story will need other stuff to set it up, and that setting ...
5 Apr 201517min
Writing Excuses 10.13: Where is My Story Going?
Any discussion of story structure must necessarily take a look at that big, long bit between the beginning and the end, that piece where almost everything actually happens. In this episode we talk abo...
30 Mar 201518min
Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu
Wes Chu joins us again for a Q&A about this month's topic: story structure! Here are the questions: * Do you make a conscious decision about how to structure your story before you begin writing? * ...
23 Mar 201522min
Writing Excuses 10.11: Project In Depth: “Parallel Perspectives”
If you haven't yet read "Parallel Perspectives," from Schlock Mercenary: Massively Parallel, we have a PDF for you to download and read before you start listening to this episode. It's a 33mb file in ...
15 Mar 201520min
Writing Excuses 10.10: Q&A with the I Ching
Wesley Chu joins us for a literal shake-up of our structure for one episode. We had loads of fun with this one. The I Ching is a collection of poems which you consult with numbered sticks. You ask a ...
8 Mar 201520min
Writing Excuses 10.9: Where is My Story Coming From?
This month's syllabus topic is story structure, and we'll be starting with the part we start with. And that part usually isn't the beginning -- that's where the story starts for the reader. We're goin...
2 Mar 201520min
Writing Excuses 10.8: Q&A on Character
It's time for a Q&A on characters! The questions for this episode were provided by the attendees at the 2014 Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat: * How do you have a character grow in power and/or e...
22 Feb 201523min
Writing Excuses 10.7: Who Are All These People?
Our character-focused month continues with an exploration of the challenges involved in building a cast for your story. Whether you're building a large or small cast, you need to know why you're putti...
16 Feb 201517min
