Writing Excuses

Melodrama. What is it? What do people mean when they say something is too melodramatic? Usually they do NOT mean "it's too much like a classical melodrama," but it helps if we start with that definit...

17 Okt 201016min

Hey! It's a mid-week bonus episode! Some people complain that we are not thorough enough in our coverage of certain topics. This episode is not for those people. Writing Prompt: Write a piece of fla...

12 Okt 201015s

You're going to love this one. This fast-paced episode of Writing Excuses goes out to everybody who thinks Writing Excuses isn't already fast-paced enough. We've done Q&A episodes before, but this on...

10 Okt 201016min

"Write what you know." Really? What about when we need to write about a relationship with which we have no experience, or about a real-world location to which we've never been? How do we go about wri...

4 Okt 201017min

Ladies and gentlemen, geeks, nerds, and enablers, and of course our listeners: THANK YOU! Writing Excuses was named "Best Content Creation Podcast" by the Parsec Committee at the 2010 Parsec Awards a...

28 Sep 20102min

This episode of Writing Excuses features our special guest, Smokey-Smoke Sanderson who spent the first half of September on tour abusing his voice. Suspense! What is it? What isn't it? What is the re...

27 Sep 201017min

Bree Despain joins us for a discussion of writing the first-person viewpoint. We talk about "method writing" and get briefly creeped out by Dan. We discuss some key aspects of this particular POV, inc...

19 Sep 201016min

Special guest Bree Despain of the Dark Divine trilogy joins us for a 'cast on character quirks. A character quirk, avoiding the tautological definition, is something that makes your character memorab...

12 Sep 201016min