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Registration is open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Registration is open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat. October 9, 2014. Registration is now open. For the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat. For the last two years the event has had a very limited size, and as a result has sold out very quickly. For 2015 we have moved to a new venue, removed the attendance limit, and increased the amount of instructor interaction all without raising the price. 8230; and much more.
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Book of the Week | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Book of the Week. Book of the Week. We talk about books a lot. Here are a few of them, with links to purchase them from Amazon. You probably already know the drill—if you buy the books from one of these links, Amazon gives us a small cut of the purchase price. Feel free to shop however you’re most comfortable, whether from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or local book sellers. We’re just happy that you’re reading. Week of September 23. Week of September 16.
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Characters | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. 1137: Casting Your Book, with Gama Martinez. September 11, 2016. Live from Phoenix Comic Con, Gama Martinez. Joins us for a discussion of casting your book. This is the process by which you create a cast of characters for your story ahead of creating the story itself, allowing you to stay ahead of your default decisions for who will step into the scene next. This episode was recorded live at Phoenix Comic Con by Jeff Cools, and mastered by Alex Jackson.
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Alternate History | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Tag Archives: Alternate History. Writing Excuses 9.5: Hijacking the Knowledge You Already Have, with Mette Ivie Harrison. February 2, 2014. What are those things you already know, but which you might not be using in your writing? How do you identify those things and put them to work for you? Podcast: Play in new window. Duration: 19:06 — 13.1MB). Writing Excuses 8.39: Dystopian Fiction with Cherie Priest. September 29, 2013. After the requisite introd...
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Business | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Writing Excuses 10.4: Q&A on Ideas. January 25, 2015. At the Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat we premiered the Season 10 concept, and we invited our attendees to give us the questions we need this month. (They’ll also be the ones providing our questions for February, but we’ll cast our net wide for questions in March.). Is it ever acceptable for inexperienced writers to write derivative works? When should you abandon an idea you love? Writing Excus...
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Writing Excuses 10.32: How Do I Control the Speed of the Story? | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Writing Excuses 10.32: How Do I Control the Speed of the Story? August 9, 2015. Podcast: Play in new window. Duration: 19:07 — 13.2MB). Take something you’ve already written (a chapter with a few scenes would be perfect.) Change scene breaks to through-scenes. Then try moving the scene breaks around. See what happens to the pace of the story. By Neal Stephenson, narrated by Mary Robinette Kowal and Will Damron. August 10, 2015 at 12:46 am. Pacing is o...
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Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space? | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space? April 19, 2015. The first page is often the very hardest one to write. In this episode we talk about how to fill the space on the first few pages of your story, because those are the pages where you have to convince the reader to keep going, and the very first page is often the only chance you have to get the reader’s attention at all. Podcast: Play in new window. The Golem and the Jinni.
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July | 2015 | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Monthly Archives: July 2015. Writing Excuses 10.30: Q&A on Middles, with Marie Brennan. July 26, 2015. Joins us again, this time to help us field your questions about middles. Here are the questions we collected from the various social media feeds:. How do you maintain interest without having something explode every other chapter? In short fiction, how do you prevent try-fail cycles from bloating the story? Do you outline this, or keep it in your head?
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creative process | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Tag Archives: creative process. Writing Excuses 9.18: Microcasting. April 27, 2014. A Q&A by any other name. Here are the questions we fielded:. Can I have a rule-based magic system and a mystical system in the same universe? What are your pre-writing methods? Can of worms — it’s going to get its own episode). What’s the first thing you do once the first draft is done? When approaching real-world issues, how do you avoid being preachy? October 20, 2013.
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Brainstorming | Writing Excuses
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New to the Podcast? Register for OUT OF EXCUSES 2016. Writing Excuses 10.2: I Have an Idea; What Do I Do Now? January 11, 2015. Writing Excuses Season 10, the podcasted master-class, continues with this exploration of that critical second step: what do do once you’ve got an idea that has story-legs. Note: When we say “two weeks ago” over and over, that’s just bad math. You haven’t missed an episode.). Podcast: Play in new window. Duration: 18:09 — 12.5MB). Take two of them and combine them into one story.
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