Writing Excuses

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Writing Excuses 7.31: Project in Depth — Hollow City Jul 30, 2012

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Spoilers galore as we discuss "Hollow City," in depth, with author Dan Wells

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Writing Excuses 7.30: Micocasting…Again! Jul 23, 2012

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The crew fields questions about criticism, suspension of disbelief, tension, and more.

Writing Excuses 7.29: The Villain Problem Jul 15, 2012

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What do you do when your villain is more interesting and engaging than your hero? The first step? Admit that this is a problem...

Writing Excuses 7.28: Project in Depth– Glamour in Glass Jul 09, 2012

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Mary Robinette Kowal talks in depth about her novel Glamour In Glass, fielding questions from Brandon, Dan, and Howard.
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Writing Excuses 7.27: The Problem of Originality Jul 02, 2012

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Do we value originality too much? What does it mean to be original, and how can we, as authors, write wonderful things when all of the good ideas have already been used?

Writing Excuses 7.26: Q&A at UVU part 2 Jun 25, 2012

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Recorded live at Utah Valley University, here's another Q&A episode from the LTUE Symposium! The questions: What was Brandon's plan with Mistborn and the themes regarding establishment? Why does Kelsier shrug so much? (This leads into a fun discussion of "tells.") How do you know when to stop a chapter? What about expanding it? How do you make your prose more transparent? How do you decide who and what to cut? What do you do to filter out the extraneous ideas that come while you're writing? What can collaborators do in order to create a single "voice" for the book? What's the best way to tackle a long back-story? Want answers? You'll just have to listen...

Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers Jun 17, 2012

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Capers and Heists as a plot form, with lots of movies cited as examples.

Writing Excuses 7.24: Project in Depth — Way of Kings Jun 10, 2012

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Brandon answers "The Way of Kings" questions from Mary, Howard, and Dan.

Writing Excuses 7.23: Time Travel Jun 03, 2012

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Recorded live, our regular 'casters discuss time travel, and somehow manage not to become any of their own parents, or even uncles.

Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting May 27, 2012

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A microcast is our word for an asynchronous Q&A episode: you ask us tons of questions online, either through twitter or facebook or our listenermail account (on the sidebar), and we want to answer as many of them as we can. Not every answer can fill an entire episode, though, so we take the smaller ones and cover a bunch of them at once in a microcast. This week we take a brief, pithy look at the following: Prologues and epilogues Using drawings to get across settings Simple tricks for naming things Would you self publish if you had a do over? How do you keep a powerful character interesting? Foreshadowing Trimming Flashbacks

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