Writing Excuses 9.39: Publicity for Books
Patty Garcia, Director of Publicity for Tor & Forge books, joins us in front of a live audience at Westercon 67 to talk about what publicity activities look like for commercially published genre ficti...
22 Sep 201421min
Writing Excuses 9.38: Q&A at Westercon
Peter Orullian joins us in front of a live audience at Westercon 67 for a Q&A. The questions include: * As a writer, how do you handle reviewing other people's books? * How do you compartmentalize ...
15 Sep 201422min
9.37: Training A Critique Group, with Kathleen Dalton Woodbury
Kathleen Dalton Woodbury, the forum moderator at the Hatrack River writers group joined us at Westercon 67 to talk about critique groups. We cover how critiques should be offered, as well as importanc...
8 Sep 201421min
Writing Excuses 9.36: Writing Instruction
David Farland joins us, along with a live audience at FantasyCon 2014, for a discussion on writing instruction. Dave runs My Story Doctor, and firmly believes that almost anyone can learn to write fic...
1 Sep 201416min
Writing Excuses 9.35: What to do when you disagree with your editor
Peter Orullian joined us in front of a live audience at Westercon to talk with us about dealing with editors. We usually talk about craft, but this is a business discussion, and it's about one of the ...
24 Aug 201417min
Writing Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education
When Writing Excuses was invited to be guests of honor at Westercon 67, we had the opportunity to interview numerous guests of the convention, each of whom were luminaries in their respective fields. ...
17 Aug 201416min
Writing Excuses 9.33: Microcasting
Microcasting! It's our Q&A format, in which each answer is like its own, tiny little podcast, only without its own unique URL, intro, writing prompt, or any of the other trappings that would actually...
10 Aug 201417min
Writing Excuses 9.32: Adjusting Character Proactivity
Let's adjust sliders again! This episode references our sliding scales for characters, and this time around we'll be talking about how proactive a character is. We also talk about the verb "protag." B...
3 Aug 201419min
