Writing Excuses

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Writing Excuses 9.41: Fan Writing, with Christopher J. Garcia Oct 05, 2014

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Christopher J. Garcia, publisher and editor of The Drink Tank, joins us for a discussion of fan writing.

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Writing Excuses 9.40: Understanding Royalties, with Paul Stevens Sep 28, 2014

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Paul Stevens, an editor at Tor, joined us in front of a live audience at Westercon 67 to talk about royalties.

Writing Excuses 9.39: Publicity for Books Sep 22, 2014

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Patty Garcia, Director of Publicity at Tor, joins us to discuss publicizing books

Writing Excuses 9.38: Q&A at Westercon Sep 15, 2014

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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 your writing to prevent that obsession from displacing everything else? (Here are the signs we talked about) How do you create frightening, unique creatures? What are the basics about networking at a convention? Is there a yield for the average story idea? What rules do you follow and what rules do you break when writing epic fantasy? What can you do in critique groups to teach craft if you're avoiding prescriptive critique? How strongly do you believe that the audience won't remember what you've told them, but will remember how you said it?

9.37: Training A Critique Group, with Kathleen Dalton Woodbury Sep 08, 2014

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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 importance of receiving critiques graciously and without defense, and we reflect on lots of the good and bad writing groups and critique groups we've been a part of. This is hard to get right, but once you do get it right your critique group can become the team that helps you turn your work into something outstanding.

Writing Excuses 9.36: Writing Instruction Sep 01, 2014

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David Farland joins, along with a live audience at Westercon 67, for a discussion on writing instruction.

Writing Excuses 9.35: What to do when you disagree with your editor Aug 24, 2014

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Peter Orullian joins us to discuss managing the author-editor relationship when things go wrong.

Writing Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education Aug 17, 2014

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Brad "Doctor Zombie" Voytek talks to us about making science accessible and attractive through science fiction.

Writing Excuses 9.33: Microcasting Aug 10, 2014

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Q&A in which we cover proofreading, writing time, career stuff, and no, you can't have any of our DNA.

Writing Excuses 9.32: Adjusting Character Proactivity Aug 03, 2014

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We talk about how to make characters more or less proactive in the stories we tell.

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