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    Writing Excuses

    Writing Excuses

    Writing Excuses

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    689 episodes
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Description

    Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
    Language:
    English
    Format:
    Podcast

    Episodes1 - 10 of 689 episodes

    Title

    19.20: How to Make Worlds Feel Big Without Overwhelming the Reader (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: Focusing on Scale)

    How do you use language and scale to focus your writing? Today, we think about scale an...

    27 minutes
    		May 19, 2024

    19.19: A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: An Overview and why A Memory Called Empire

    Why is worldbuilding is essential in your writing? Today, we answer this question and d...

    28 minutes
    		May 12, 2024

    19.18: How to Build Fictional Economies

    Sometimes we know the action and themes of your story, but you don’t know how to build ...

    26 minutes
    		May 05, 2024

    19.17: Novellas- the Goldilocks of Publishing

    How do you find the right size for your story? And speaking of size, what do novellas d...

    28 minutes
    		Apr 28, 2024

    19.16: An Interview with Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar

    Today we get to talk to the inimitable Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. Amal and Max a...

    47 minutes
    		Apr 21, 2024

    19.15: A Close Reading on Voice: Tying It All Together

    As we conclude our first deep dive of our close reading series, we want to explore how ...

    25 minutes
    		Apr 14, 2024

    19.14: A Close Reading on Voice- Epistolary Storytelling Through Voice

    What's epistolary writing? Well, it's writing through letters. But it's also a lot more...

    25 minutes
    		Apr 07, 2024

    19.13: A Close Reading on Voice: Blue's Perspective - Confidence and Vulnerability

    On our third episode diving into Voice through the novella “This Is How You Lose The Ti...

    23 minutes
    		Mar 31, 2024

    19.12: A Close Reading on Voice - Red's Perspective - Muscular Prose

    Today, we are doing a very close read of Red's opening narration and how Red’s voice co...

    26 minutes
    		Mar 24, 2024

    19.11: A Close Reading on Voice- An Overview, and Why Time War

    The book that became a New York Times Bestseller because of a tweet. Well, it won LOTS ...

    24 minutes
    		Mar 17, 2024