Writing Excuses

Beowulf didn't kill Grendel on a day trip, Luke didn't overthrow Emperor Palpatine in just one season, and here at Writing Excuses, we didn't get around to properly discussing the Hero's Journey until...

13 Jan 201317min

We're back for 2013 and Season 8, so let's start it off by answering all your questions! That's right, it's time for a fast-paced, lightning round of microcasting! It's like eight very, very short pod...

6 Jan 201317min

And now, for the very last episode of Season 7, we shall chance taking a look forward. Is this prognostication, or reckless abandon? Neither! We get asked a lot about how the industry is changing, and...

31 Dec 201219min

Hey, guess what 2012 has fifty-three of? Mondays! So you're getting a fifty-third episode of "Writing Excuses" this season. (You're also going to be getting a fifty-fourth, because we stuck an extra i...

26 Dec 201216min

We're drawing to the close of Season 7, so here's some microcasting (that's what we call a fast-paced Q&A) where we field your questions. Here are your questions: * What are your embarrassing early ...

17 Dec 201217min

We try. We really do. But sometimes, in our efforts to make sure we've got a large enough queue of episodes to keep you edutained and entercated, we get things out of order. Badly. Our last two episo...

12 Dec 201218min

Mary has a distinctive outlining methodology, and this episode is all about it. She tells us about roadmaps, layers, thumbnails, under paintings, synopses, and more, in the order in which those elemen...

10 Dec 201218min

We haven't discussed beginnings this in a while, and when we did, we summed it up with "in late, out early." Now we're going to talk about what needs to be present when you're "in." We talk about tone...

3 Dec 201218min