Writing Excuses 4.34: Q&A at Dragons & Fairy Tales
The last of our three recorded-live episodes is also the last episode of Writing Excuses Season 4. We took questions from the audience, and answered them with ABSOLUTE APLOMB. Questions asked include...
29 Aug 201021min
Writing Excuses 4.33: Trunk Novels
Recorded live at Dragons & Fairy Tales, this episode is for anybody who has a novel or two (or more) sitting in the bottom of their trunk. What are the best ways to re-use old material you've set asid...
23 Aug 201016min
Writing Excuses 4.32: First Paragraphs
Recorded live at Dragons & Fairy Tales in Eagle Mountain, Utah, this episode features the work of several brave souls who submitted their first paragraphs to us for critique. We are not American Idol...
16 Aug 201020min
Writing Excuses 4.31: Line Editing Dialog
We return to White Sand (original version), Brandon's first book, written while he was a teenager. Again, you'll need to suspend your disbelief as we assume that the story edits and other major conten...
9 Aug 201018min
Writing Excuses 4.30: Worldbuilding the Future
Let's build THE FUTURE! [cue dramatic music] The Writing Excuses crew explores another angle on the massively multifaceted gem of a topic known as "worldbuilding." We've touched on governments, relig...
2 Aug 201015min
Writing Excuses 4.29: Line Editing
By popular request, here's a 'cast where we demonstrate line-editing. A word of warning, though: we demonstrate this process on the very first book Brandon ever wrote. Not his first published, book, m...
26 Juli 201018min
Writing Excuses 4.28: Brainstorming The End and Working Backwards
When Oscar Hammerstein wrote "Let's start at the very beginning // A very good place to start" he was talking about teaching children to sing, not writing a novel. Sometimes the beginning is the very ...
19 Juli 201018min
Writing Excuses 4.27: Major Overhauls to Broken Stories
What do you do when, halfway through the book you're writing, you realize it needs to be completely rebuilt? More importantly, how do you figure this out in the first place? This podcast came about as...
12 Juli 201018min
