Writing Excuses

In previous episodes we've established the dichotomy between discovery writing and outline writing. In our 'casts about process, we've mostly talked about outlining, working from an outline, and the w...

17 Maj 201017min

We here at Writing Excuses have talked about the Anxiety of Influence before, we've discussed genre-blending, and we've talked about where ideas come from. Now we're going to blend all of those in one...

10 Maj 201016min

Sandra Tayler, Dawn Wells, and Kenny Pike  take over the 'cast with some coaching from Dan (and heckling from Howard)  to talk about what it's like to live with an artist. We cover the ups and the dow...

3 Maj 201016min

Isaac Stewart, interior artist for the Mistborn books and Rocket Road-Tripper joins us again for a discussion of the fourth wall, and the breaking thereof. We talk about the theatrical origins of the ...

26 Apr 201017min

Isaac Stewart, the interior artist for the Mistborn books, joins Brandon and Howard for a discussion of the visual elements in our work, and how to make them cohere. We talk about the yellow ball-on-a...

19 Apr 201017min

Our last brainstorming 'cast was so well-received we decided to do another one. This time we grabbed articles from a New Scientist article called "13 More Things We Don't Understand." Dark flow, hybr...

12 Apr 201017min

We called "can-of-worms" on multiple viewpoints last week because the topic is too big to share the 'cast with anything else. We talk about why multiple viewpoints are useful, and then how to do it we...

5 Apr 201018min

"Dude, that's totally epic." "Epic fail! Epic fail!" These phrases have only passing relation to epic storytelling, and to epic fantasy. Brandon and Howard write epics, and we're going to talk about...

29 Mars 201017min