Writing Excuses

This the third in our series of retrospective episodes. The most important thing Dan learned this year? Being a full-time author is a lot different than he thought it would be. How different? What wa...

18 Touko 200914min

Here's the second part of our three-part "what we learned this year" series. This time around Brandon tells us the most important thing he learned this year. Summed up? Gimmicks cannot compensate for ...

11 Touko 200916min

This is the first of a three-part series in which Brandon, Dan, and Howard tell each other (and you, of course) about the most important thing each of them has learned in the past year. We start with ...

3 Touko 200915min

Let's talk about failure... but let's talk about it so that we can avoid it.  How do you know if your ending has flopped?  What kind of approaches to ending a story should you be avoiding? How can you...

27 Huhti 200916min

Last week we talked about reading critically, reading as writers. This week we decided to apply that critical reading skill to Watchmen, the Hugo award-winning graphic novel by Alan Moore, illustrated...

20 Huhti 200918min

As a writer you obviously know how to read. But being a writer changes how you read, and what you read, and even why you read. Do you read more, or less as a writer? How do you read so that your readi...

13 Huhti 200916min

Nancy Fulda, assistant editor at Baen's Universe and  editor-in-chief and founder of Anthology Builder, joins us again while Dan Wells is out celebrating his birthday. We discuss the rise of digital S...

6 Huhti 200921min

This... THIS is why speculative fiction writers should never be trusted with actual technology. Our Sponsors: * Check out MasterClass and use my code masterclass.com/EXCUSES for a great deal: https:/...

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