Writing Excuses

"Silence your internal editor" may not be very good advice. We talk about why.

Microcasting... it's what we call Q&A. Beta readers, IP issues, discovery writing, chapter length, and more.

Bill Schaefer of Subterranean Press talks publishing with us.

Cherie Priest joins the cast for a discussion of dystopian fiction before a live audience.

The cast talks about self publishing, our early career difficulties, Easter Eggs, and more...

How do you respond to bad reviews, publisher errors, or other possible "career fail" situations?

How do you go about transitioning characters in relative prominence during a series of books?

Jeph Jacques of Questionable Content joins us to talk about discovery writing, and how he digs himself out of holes when he writes himself into them.

The cast talks about their survivorship bias, and how to pay attention to that bias so that listeners can extract advice from us that might actually work for you

How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction?

Q&A covering workflow, contests, lantern-hanging, word counts, and more

The cast talks about making dialogue, blocking, and description work together for exposition and story-telling.

The cast discusses how to make reluctant, non-proactive, non-go-getting characters interesting to read about.

The cast answers questions about publishing, formatting, process, and the Evil Nemesis John Scalzi.

The team talks about contracts, and what you as an author staring at a contract should be considering.

How do we break our books into chapters, and how to we build those chapters to begin with?

What does "space opera" mean, and how might you go about writing it?

E.J. Patten joins us again, this to discuss the particulars of writing middle-grade fiction.

Mary walks Brandon, Dan, and Howard through the processes for writing "Kiss Me Twice," her Hugo-nominated novella

Brandon, Dan, Mary, Howard, and guest E.J. Patten answer a slew of questions about writing and the business of writing.