Writing Excuses 6.5: Query Letters
Dan and Howard had the recent opportunity to interview Dan's agent, http://saracrowe.com/index.html, who works with the Harvey Klinger agency. We decided to address a topic that is by far the most-req...
4 Juli 201121min
Writing Excuses 6.4: Microcasting
Microcasting! It's our high-speed Q&A! Here are the Q's, listen to the 'cast for the A's. * Is it still safe to go the commercial publishing route? * How do you find the balance when writing seriou...
27 Juni 201119min
Writing Excuses 6.3: Professional Organizations
As you may or may not know, Mary Robinette Kowal is currently the Vice President (a volunteer position) of SFWA, the Science-fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. And after killing two minutes talki...
20 Juni 201120min
Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations
If you have to ask yourself "what's my motivation?" when you're sitting down to write, this isn't the podcast for you. We're talking about character motivation in this cast. Mary breaks it down into ...
13 Juni 201120min
Writing Excuses 6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?
One of our most popular guests ever, Mary Robinette Kowal, finally joins Brandon, Dan, and Howard as a full-time cast-member. And now that she's with us, we're going to go back and revisit the very fi...
6 Juni 201118min
Writing Excuses 5.39: Filking and Writing Music with Tom Smith
Filk. It sounds like a bad word. Okay, what it actually sounds like, provided you've fallen in among actual filkers, is AWESOME. It's music named after a typo, and sung around subjects near and dear...
30 Maj 201117min
Writing Excuses 5.38: Dialog with John Scalzi
John Scalzi joins Brandon and Howard at Penguicon for a discussion of writing dialog. John's advice begins thusly: "start reading outside Science Fiction and Fantasy." It's good advice regardless, but...
23 Maj 201117min
Writing Excuses 5.37: Parody and Satire with Jim Hines
Jim Hines joins Brandon and Howard at Penguicon for a discussion of parody, satire, and why things are funny. We start by defining parody and satire, and then Jim tells us why he wrote his he-calls-t...
16 Maj 201117min
