Writing Excuses
By Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
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Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
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20.13: First Person
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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20.12: Fashion as a Writing Metaphor
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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20.11: Kit Lit. Q&A Aboard the WX Cruise, with Mark Oshiro, Kate McKean, and Sandra Tayler
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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20.10: Interview with Chuck Tingle: Breaking the Rules
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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20.09: The Reaction of Who?!
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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20.08: Character Stakes and Fears
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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20.07: Motivation and Goals
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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20.06: History and Community
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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20.05: The Lens of Who
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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20.04: Puppetry as a Writing Metaphor
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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20.03: Polishing Your Writing Lens
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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20.02: Q&A Aboard the Writing Excuses Cruise, with Mark Oshiro and Kate McKean
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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20.01: Welcome to 2025!
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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19.52: End of Year Reflections: Navigating Speedbumps
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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19.51: And That Was That
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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19.50.5: An Interview with DIY MFA Founder Gabriela Pereira (BONUS EPISODE)
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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19.50: All Systems Go
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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19.49: Getting to Know You
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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19.48: Beginning With A Thrill
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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19.47.5: Interview with Andrew Buckley of the StoryCentric podcast (BONUS EPISODE)
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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19.47: Final Thoughts on Our Close Reading Series
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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19.46: An Interview on Structure with N.K. Jemisin
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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19.45: A Close Reading on Structure: Tying It All Together
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Nov 10, 2024 |
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19.44: A Close Reading on Structure: Tradition and Innovation
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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19.43: A Close Reading on Structure: Parallelism and Inversion
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Oct 27, 2024 |
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19.42: A Close Reading on Structure: Whose Perspective is it Anyways?
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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19.41: A Close Reading on Structure: An Overview and Why Fifth Season
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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19.40: An Interview on Tension with P. Djèlí Clark
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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19.39: A Close Reading on Tension: Tying It All Together
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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19.38: A Close Reading on Tension: Anticipation and Subversion
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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19.37: A Close Reading on Tension: Movement and Resolution
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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19.36: A Close Reading on Tension: Narrative vs. Contextual
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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19.35: A Close Reading on Tension: An Overview and Why Ring Shout
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Sep 01, 2024 |
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19.34: Grants and Fellowships
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Aug 25, 2024 |
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19.33: Workshops and Retreats
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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19.32: An Interview on Character with CL Clark
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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19.31: A Close Reading on Character: Tying it All Together
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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19.30: A Close Reading on Character: Agency vs. Choices
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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19.29: A Close Reading on Character: Barriers vs. Stakes
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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19.28: A Close Reading on Character: Internal vs External Identity
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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19.27: A Close Reading on Character: An Overview and Why We Chose C.L. Clark's Stories
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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19.26: Bringing Falconry into Writing
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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19.25: From the Classroom to the Page
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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19.24: An Interview on Worldbuilding with Arkady Martine
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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19.23: Tying It All Together (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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19.22: Technology and Identity (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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19.21: Language as a Tool (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding)
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May 26, 2024 |
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19.20: How to Make Worlds Feel Big Without Overwhelming the Reader (A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: Focusing on Scale)
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May 19, 2024 |
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19.19: A Close Reading on Worldbuilding: An Overview and why A Memory Called Empire
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May 12, 2024 |
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19.18: How to Build Fictional Economies
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May 05, 2024 |
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19.17: Novellas- the Goldilocks of Publishing
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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19.16: An Interview with Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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19.15: A Close Reading on Voice: Tying It All Together
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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19.14: A Close Reading on Voice- Epistolary Storytelling Through Voice
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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19.13: A Close Reading on Voice: Blue's Perspective - Confidence and Vulnerability
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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19.12: A Close Reading on Voice - Red's Perspective - Muscular Prose
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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19.11: A Close Reading on Voice- An Overview, and Why Time War
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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19.10: Introducing Our Close Readings Series
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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19.09: LIVE Recording - Rituals, Rites, and Traditions
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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19.08: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Working with an Editor
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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19.07: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Intention
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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19.06: NaNoWriMo Revision with Ali Fisher: Length
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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19.05: LIVE Recording - Revisions with Mahtab Narsimhan
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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19.04: LIVE Recording - Pacing with Guest Fonda Lee
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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19.03: Behind The Scenes with our Producer and Recording Engineer
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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19.02: Q&A Episode with WX Core Cast
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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19.01: Interview with Abraham Verghese
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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18.53: Funding the Writing Life
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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18.52: Writing Inside The Box
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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18.51: So You Wanna Play With Format?
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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18.50: The Unreliable Narrator
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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18.49: Giving Your Story A Voice
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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18.48: NaNoWriMo Week 5 - Writing Endings
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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18.47: NaNoWriMo Week 4 - Climaxes, or OH MY GOD NO
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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18.46: NaNoWriMo Week 3 - Raising the Stakes
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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18.45: NaNoWriMo Week 2 - Inciting Incident
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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18.44: NaNoWriMo Week 1- Getting Started
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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18.43: Worldbuilding in Miniature
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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18.42: Creating Magic Outside of a System
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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18.41: Deep Dive: Erin's Short Fiction Extravaganza
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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18.40: How To Make Money From Your Hobby (with special guest Sandra Tayler!)
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Oct 01, 2023 |
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18.39: How To Write An Ending
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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18.38: How Do You Write A Series With Books That Stand Alone?
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Sep 17, 2023 |
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18.37: Mandatory Failure
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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18.36: The Soggy Middle Pays the Rent (or, "Stand Alone With Series Potential")
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Sep 03, 2023 |
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18.35: How to Organize Your Writing, or Managing the Mega-Arc
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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18.34: Seventeen Years of Foreshadowing
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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18.33.5: State Of The Podcast
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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18.33: Deep Dive: The Schlock Mercenary Finale
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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18.32: The Kirsten Vangsness Expansion Pack
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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18.31: Getting Personal: Mining Your Life for Themes
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Jul 30, 2023 |
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18.30: Planting Supernatural Seeds
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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18.29: Collaboration And Partnership
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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18.28: Writing Conversational Dialogue
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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18.27: Framing Stories
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures, & More
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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18.25: To Narrator or Not to Narrator
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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18.24: “Dark One: Forgotten” Deep Dive
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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18.23: Our Advice on Giving Advice
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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18.22: On Mentorship: Sending the Elevator Back Down
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May 28, 2023 |
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18.21: The Empathy Gap: How to Understand What Your Publisher is Telling You
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May 21, 2023 |
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18.20: So You Want To Work In Publishing?
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May 14, 2023 |
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18.19: What is Publishing For, Anyway?
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May 07, 2023 |
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18.18: Launching an Author Newsletter
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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18.17: Build Your Author Brand, 2023 Edition
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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18.16: Deep Dive: Publishing is Hard, by DongWon Song
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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18.15: Building a Mystery, Now With More Tools
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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18.14: Heavy Lifting with Microtension
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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18.13: Finding the Core Conflict
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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18.12: The Long Shadow of Unanswered Questions
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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18.11: Turning Up the Contrast With Juxtaposition
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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18.10: Anticipation is More Than Just Making Us Wait
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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18.09: Unpacking the Tension
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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18.08: Building a Mystery
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Feb 19, 2023 |
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18.07: Deep Dive into THE SPARE MAN
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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18.06: An Interview With Howard Tayler
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Feb 05, 2023 |
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18.05: An Interview with Mary Robinette Kowal
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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18.04: An Interview With Dan Wells
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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18.03: An Interview With Erin Roberts
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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18.02: An Interview with DongWon Song
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Jan 08, 2023 |
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18.01: Twenty Twenty-Three, By Way of Introduction
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Jan 01, 2023 |
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17.52: The WXR 2022 Q&A
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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17.51: Feel The Burn
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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17.50: Consistency, Inconsistency, and the Crushing Weight of Expectations
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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17.49: Bodies Are Magical
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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17.48: Bodies, Why? (Part III)
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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17.47: The Linguistics of Disability
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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17.46: Monstrous Awakening
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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17.45: Bodies, Tech, and Character
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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17.44: Bodies, Why? (Part II: Working Through Disability)
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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17.43: Bodies. Why? (Depicting Disability)
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Oct 23, 2022 |
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17.42: Eight Embodied Episodes About Disability
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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17.41: Picture Books are Books Too, with Special Guest Seth Fishman
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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17.40: Questions & Answers About Structure, with Special Guest Peng Shepherd
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Oct 02, 2022 |
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17.39: Writing Bodies and Intimacy, with K.M. Szpara
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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17.38: Oh No I Lost The Thread
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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17.37: Science and Fiction—It’s Not Just Science Fiction
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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17.36: Space for Everyone
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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17.35: Nuances of Dialog
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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17.34: Developing Subtext
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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17.33: Building Tension
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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17.32: Everything is About Conflict
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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17.31: Everyone Has an Agenda
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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17.30: Know Your Characters
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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17.29: The Job of Dialogue
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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17.28: Keys to Writing Dialog
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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17.27: Ensembles Behind the Scenes
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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17.26: Hanging Separately
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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17.25: Archetypes, Ensembles, and Expectations
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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17.24: Ensembles and Genre
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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17.23: Are We Stronger Together?
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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17.22: Establishing the Ensemble
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May 29, 2022 |
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17.21: Casting Your Story With Character Voice
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May 22, 2022 |
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17.20: Basics of Ensemble Characterization
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May 15, 2022 |
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17.19: Working in a Collaborative Environment
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May 08, 2022 |
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17.18: How to be Funny, with Jody Lynn Nye
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May 01, 2022 |
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17.17: Writing in the Public Domain
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Apr 24, 2022 |
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17.16: Miscellaneous Structures
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Apr 17, 2022 |
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17.15: Storytelling in the Footnotes
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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17.14: Structuring for Disordered or Order-less Reading Order
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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17.13: Structuring Around a Thing
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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17.12: Structuring a Story Within a Story
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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17.10: Structuring with Multiple POVs
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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17.9: Let’s Talk About Structure
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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17.7: Dissecting Influence
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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17.6: Hitting Reset Without Getting Hit Back
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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17.5: The Promise of the Brand
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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17.3: Chekov’s Surprising Yet Inevitable Inverted Gun
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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17.2: It Was a Promise of Three Parts
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Jan 09, 2022 |
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17.1: Genre and Media are Promises
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Jan 02, 2022 |
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16.52: Structure is a Promise
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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16.51: Promises are a Structure
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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16.49: Magic and Technology: Two Sides of the Same Coin
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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16.48: Believable Worlds Part 2: Creating Texture
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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16.47: Believable Worlds Part 1: The Illusion of Real
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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16.46: World and Plot: The Only Constant is Change
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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16.44: World and Character Part 1: All Your Characters Are Biased
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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16.43: The Narrative Holy Trinity of World, Character, and Plot, with Fonda Lee
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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16.42: M.I.C.E. Quotient, After the Fact
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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16.41: Middles and Conflicts with M.I.C.E. Structure
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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16.40: Nesting Threads in the M.I.C.E. Quotient
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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16.39: Deep Dive into “Event”
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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16.38: Deep Dive into “Character”
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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16.37: Deep Dive Into “Inquiry”
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Sep 12, 2021 |
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16.36: Deep Dive into “Milieu”
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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16.35: What is the M.I.C.E. Quotient?
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Aug 29, 2021 |
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16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes
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Aug 22, 2021 |
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16.33: Tell, Don’t Show
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Aug 15, 2021 |
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16.32: First Page Fundamentals—THE KILLING FLOOR, by Lee Childs
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Aug 08, 2021 |
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16.31: First Page Fundamentals—MOBY DICK
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Aug 01, 2021 |
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16.30: First Page Fundamentals—THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
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Jul 25, 2021 |
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16.29: Building Trust
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Jul 18, 2021 |
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16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes
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Jul 11, 2021 |
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16.27: Nobody Wants to Read a Book
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Jul 04, 2021 |
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16.26: Working With Teams
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Jun 27, 2021 |
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16.25: Breaking Into Game Writing
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Jun 20, 2021 |
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16.24: Worldbuilding for Games
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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BONUS EPISODE! 2021 WXR Early-Bird Announcement
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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16.23: Rules and Mechanics
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Jun 06, 2021 |
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16.22: Scenes and Set Pieces
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May 30, 2021 |
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16.21: Player Characters
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May 23, 2021 |
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16.20: Branching Narratives
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May 16, 2021 |
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16.19: Intro to Roleplaying Games
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May 09, 2021 |
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16.18: Poetry and the Fantastic
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May 02, 2021 |
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16.17: The Time To Rhyme
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Apr 25, 2021 |
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16.16: Poetic Structure: Part II
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Apr 18, 2021 |
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16.15: Poetic Structure, Part I
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Apr 11, 2021 |
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16.14: Poetic Language
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Apr 04, 2021 |
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16.13: Day Brain vs. Night Brain
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Mar 28, 2021 |
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16.12 : Singing Versus Speaking
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Mar 21, 2021 |
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16.11: What is Poetry?
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Mar 14, 2021 |
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16.10: Paying it Forward, with Kevin J. Anderson
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Mar 07, 2021 |
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16.9: Crossing The Revenue Streams
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Feb 28, 2021 |
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16.8: Smart Promotion
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Feb 21, 2021 |
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16.7: To Series, or Not to Series
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Feb 14, 2021 |
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16.6: Building Your Brand
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Feb 07, 2021 |
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16.5: Pros and Contracts
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Jan 31, 2021 |
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16.4: Networking
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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16.3: Publishing Pitfalls
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Jan 17, 2021 |
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16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends
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Jan 10, 2021 |
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16.01: Your Career is Your Business
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Jan 03, 2021 |
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15.52: Economy of Phrase, Being the Concentrated Concatenation of Complex Thoughts in Just a Very Few Words Which Must Fit In A Very Very Small Box, With Patrick Rothfuss
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Dec 27, 2020 |
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15.51: Feedback—When to Listen, and When to Ignore, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
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Dec 20, 2020 |
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15.50: Juggling Ensembles
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Dec 13, 2020 |
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15.49: Maintaining Passion for a Story, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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15.48: Deliberate Discomfort, Part Two
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Nov 29, 2020 |
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15.47: Worldbuilding Science Fiction, with Cory Doctorow
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Nov 22, 2020 |
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15.46: Crafting Chinese-American Characters
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Nov 15, 2020 |
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15.45: Worldbuilding Fantasy, with Patrick Rothfuss
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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15.44: Rebooting a Career
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Nov 01, 2020 |
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15.43: Audiobook Narration, with Bruce D Richardson
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Oct 25, 2020 |
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15.42: Writing The End
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Oct 18, 2020 |
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15.41: Researching the FCK out of Things, with Cory Doctorow
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Oct 11, 2020 |
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15.40: Researching for Writing the Other
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Oct 04, 2020 |
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15.39: Translation, with special guest Alex Shvartsman
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Sep 27, 2020 |
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15.38: Depicting Religions That Are Not Your Own
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Sep 20, 2020 |
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15.37: Writing Under Deadlines
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Sep 13, 2020 |
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15.36: Collaboration, with Shannon and Dean Hale
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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15.35: Tools for Writing and Worldbuilding, with Erin Roberts
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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15.34: Writing Deliberate Discomfort
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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15.33: The Long, Dark Second Act of the Soul
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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15.32: Short Story Markets
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Aug 09, 2020 |
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15.31: The Agent in the Room
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Aug 02, 2020 |
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15.30: Write What You Want To Know, with Laurell K. Hamilton
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Jul 26, 2020 |
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15.29: Barbie Pre-Writing, with Janci Patterson and Megan Walker
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Jul 19, 2020 |
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15.28: Small Evils
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Jul 12, 2020 |
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15.27: Alternate History, with Eric Flint
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Jul 05, 2020 |
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15.26: Taking the Chance, with David Weber
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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15.25: Using the MICE Quotient for Conflict
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Jun 21, 2020 |
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15.24: Keeping it Fresh, with Jim Butcher
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Jun 14, 2020 |
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15.23: Serialization
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Jun 07, 2020 |
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15.22 Writing For Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale
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May 31, 2020 |
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15.21: Writing About Children, with Shannon and Dean Hale
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May 24, 2020 |
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15.20: Mental Wellness and Writing
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May 17, 2020 |
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15.19: As You Know, This Episode Is About Exposition
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May 10, 2020 |
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15.18: Finding a Community, with Shauna Hoffman
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May 03, 2020 |
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15.17: Asexual Representation
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Apr 26, 2020 |
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15.16: Balancing Plot and Character
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Apr 19, 2020 |
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15.15: Dialog
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Apr 12, 2020 |
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15.14: Agent Query Trenches
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Apr 05, 2020 |
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15.13: Using Elections in Stories
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Mar 29, 2020 |
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15.12: Writing the Other—Being an Ally
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Mar 22, 2020 |
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15.11: Digital is Different, with Cory Doctorow
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Mar 15, 2020 |
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15.10: Evaluating Ideas
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Mar 08, 2020 |
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15.09: Choose Your Own Adventurous Publishing Path
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Mar 01, 2020 |
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15.08: Q&A on a Ship
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Feb 23, 2020 |
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15.07: Creating Chapters
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Feb 16, 2020 |
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15.06: Prose and Cons, with Patrick Rothfuss
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Feb 09, 2020 |
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15.05: Setting Goals for Your Career
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Feb 02, 2020 |
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15.04: Revision, with Patrick Rothfuss
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Jan 26, 2020 |
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15.03: Self Publishing
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Jan 19, 2020 |
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15.02: Writing Between the Lines
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Jan 12, 2020 |
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15.01: Evolution of a Career
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Jan 05, 2020 |
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14.52: Game Mastering and Collaborative Storytelling, with Natasha Ence
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Dec 29, 2019 |
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14.51: A Farewell to Worldbuilding
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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14.50: Write What You… No.
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Dec 15, 2019 |
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14.49: Customs and Mores
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Dec 08, 2019 |
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14.48: How to Practice Worldbuilding
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Dec 01, 2019 |
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14.47: Writing Characters With Physical Disabilities
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Nov 24, 2019 |
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14.46: Unusual Resources
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Nov 17, 2019 |
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14.45: Economics
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Nov 10, 2019 |
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14.44: Realism vs. Rule-of-Cool
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Nov 03, 2019 |
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14.43: Sequencing Your Career Genome
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Oct 27, 2019 |
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14.42: Alternate History
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Oct 20, 2019 |
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14.41: History
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Oct 13, 2019 |
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14.40: Deep vs. Wide
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Oct 06, 2019 |
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14.39: Positioning Your Book in the Marketplace
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Sep 29, 2019 |
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14.38: Volunteer Opportunities for Writers, with Jared Quan
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Sep 22, 2019 |
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14.37: Outlandish Impossibilities
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Sep 15, 2019 |
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14.36: Languages and Naming
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Sep 08, 2019 |
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14.35: What You Leave Out
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Sep 01, 2019 |
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14.34: Author Branding
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Aug 25, 2019 |
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14.33: Writing Imperfect Worlds
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Aug 18, 2019 |
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Worldbuilding Gender Roles
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Aug 11, 2019 |
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14.31: Cultural Setting as Conflict
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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14.30: Eating Your Way to Better Worldbuilding
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Jul 28, 2019 |
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14.29: Field Research
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Jul 21, 2019 |
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14.28: Warfare and Weaponry
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Jul 14, 2019 |
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14.27: Natural Setting as Conflict
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Jul 07, 2019 |
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14.26: Lessons from Aristotle, with Rob Kimbro
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Jun 30, 2019 |
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14.25: Choosing Your Agent
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Jun 23, 2019 |
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14.24: Political Intrigue
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Jun 16, 2019 |
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14.23: Governments Large and Small
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Jun 09, 2019 |
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14.22: Characters out of Their Depth
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Jun 02, 2019 |
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14.21: Writing The Other — Yes, You Can!
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May 26, 2019 |
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14.20: Allegory in Fiction
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May 19, 2019 |
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14.19: Religion and Ritual
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May 12, 2019 |
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14.18: Setting as Theme
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May 05, 2019 |
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14.17: It’s Like “Car Talk” meets “Welcome To Nightvale”
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Apr 28, 2019 |
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14.16: Your Setting is a Telegraph
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Apr 21, 2019 |
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14.15: Technology
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Apr 14, 2019 |
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14.14: When To Tell
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Apr 07, 2019 |
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WX 14.13: Obstacles vs. Complications
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Mar 31, 2019 |
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14.12: Writing The Other — Latinx Representation
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Mar 24, 2019 |
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14.11: Magic Without Rules
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Mar 17, 2019 |
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14.10: Magic Systems
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Mar 10, 2019 |
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14.9: Showing Off
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Mar 03, 2019 |
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14.8: Worldbuilding Q&A #1
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Feb 24, 2019 |
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14.7: How Weird is Too Weird?
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Feb 17, 2019 |
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14.6: Fantasy and Science Fiction Races
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Feb 10, 2019 |
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14.5: Viewpoint as Worldbuilding
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Feb 03, 2019 |
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14.04: Writing the Other—Bisexual Characters
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Jan 27, 2019 |
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14.03: World of Hats
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Jan 20, 2019 |
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14.02: Geography and Biomes
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Jan 13, 2019 |
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14.01: Worldbuilding Begins! Up Front, or On the Fly?
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Jan 06, 2019 |
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13.52: Working Dad is a Spaceman
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Dec 30, 2018 |
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13.51: Wrap-up on the Year of Character
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Dec 25, 2018 |
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13.50: What Writers Get Wrong, with Zoraida Córdova
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Dec 16, 2018 |
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13.49: How to Finish
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Dec 09, 2018 |
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13.48: Character Death and Plot Armor
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Dec 02, 2018 |
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13.47: Q&A on Fixing Characters
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Nov 25, 2018 |
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13.46: The Unsexy Side of Space, with Bart Smith and Ben Hewett
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Nov 18, 2018 |
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NaNoWriMo 2018 Bonus Episode, with Mercedes Lackey
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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13.45: Next Level Narration
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Nov 11, 2018 |
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NaNoWriMo 2018 Mini-Episode 2
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Nov 07, 2018 |
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13.44: Alien Characters
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Nov 04, 2018 |
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NaNoWriMo 2018 Mini-Episode 1
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Oct 31, 2018 |
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13.43: Characters Who Are Smarter Than You Are
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Oct 28, 2018 |
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13.42: Writing Excuses Talks to an Astronaut, with Special Guest Kjell Lindgren
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Oct 21, 2018 |
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13.41: Fixing Character Problems, Part II
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Oct 14, 2018 |
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13.40: Fixing Character Problems, Part I
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Oct 07, 2018 |
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13.39: What Writers Get Wrong, With Wendy Tolliver
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Sep 30, 2018 |
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13.38: How to Find and Use Alpha Readers
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Sep 23, 2018 |
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13.37: What Writers Get Wrong, with J.Y. Yang
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Sep 16, 2018 |
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13.36: Confronting the Default
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Sep 09, 2018 |
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13.35: Cliché vs. Archetype
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Sep 02, 2018 |
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13.34: Q&A on Character Arcs
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Aug 26, 2018 |
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13.b1: Bonus Episode — Elephants and Death, with Lawrence Schoen
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Aug 22, 2018 |
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13.33: Reading Outside the Box
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Aug 19, 2018 |
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13.32: How To Handle Weighty Topics
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Aug 12, 2018 |
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13.31: Learning to Listen as a Writer
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Aug 05, 2018 |
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13.30: Project in Depth, THE CALCULATING STARS, with Kjell Lindgren
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Jul 29, 2018 |
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13.29: Iconic Heroes
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Jul 22, 2018 |
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13.28: What Writers Get Wrong, with Wildstyle
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Jul 15, 2018 |
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13.27: Characters as Foils
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Jul 08, 2018 |
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13.26: Character Relationships
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Jul 01, 2018 |
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13.25: Our Journey With Character
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Jun 24, 2018 |
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13.24: What Writers Get Wrong, with Piper, Aliette, and Wesley, with special guest Ken Liu
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Jun 17, 2018 |
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13.23: Internal Conflicts
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Jun 10, 2018 |
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13.22: Character Arcs
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Jun 03, 2018 |
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13.21: Q&A on Character Depth and Motivation
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May 27, 2018 |
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13.20: Fear and Writing, with Emma Newman
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May 20, 2018 |
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13.19: Backstories
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May 13, 2018 |
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13.18: Naturally Revealing Character Motivation
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May 06, 2018 |
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13.17: What Writers Get Wrong, with Jamahl Crouch
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Apr 29, 2018 |
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13.16: Avoiding Flat Characters
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Apr 22, 2018 |
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13.15: What Writers Get Wrong, with Mike Stop Continues
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Apr 15, 2018 |
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13.14: Character Nuance
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Apr 08, 2018 |
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13.13: Character Voice
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Apr 01, 2018 |
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13.12: Q&A on Heroes, Villains, and Main Characters
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Mar 25, 2018 |
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13.11: Writing Secondary Characters, with Charlaine Harris
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Mar 18, 2018 |
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13.10: Handling a Large Cast
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Mar 11, 2018 |
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13.9: Quick Characterization
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Mar 04, 2018 |
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13.8: Making Characters Distinctive
|
Feb 25, 2018 |
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13.7: What Writers Get Wrong, with Lou Perry
|
Feb 18, 2018 |
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13.6: External Conflicts for Characters
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Feb 11, 2018 |
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13.5: Villain, Antagonist, Obstacle
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Feb 04, 2018 |
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13.4: Protagonists Who Aren’t Sympathetic
|
Jan 28, 2018 |
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13.3: What Writers Get Wrong, with Aliette de Bodard
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Jan 21, 2018 |
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13.2: Writing Active Characters
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Jan 14, 2018 |
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13.1: Hero, Protagonist, Main Character
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Jan 07, 2018 |
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12.53: Writing Excuses True Confessions
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Dec 31, 2017 |
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12.52: Cross-Genres as Gateways
|
Dec 24, 2017 |
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12.51: Constructed Languages, with Dirk Elzinga
|
Dec 17, 2017 |
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12.50: Form and Function
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Dec 10, 2017 |
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12.49: Non-linear Narratives
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Dec 03, 2017 |
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12.48: Q&A on Novels and Series, with Brian McClellan
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Nov 26, 2017 |
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12.47: Screenwriting and the Writers Room, with JD Payne
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Nov 19, 2017 |
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12.46: Reinventing Yourself
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Nov 12, 2017 |
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12.45: Structuring a Series
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Nov 05, 2017 |
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12.44: NaNoWriMo 2017 Primer
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Oct 29, 2017 |
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12.43: Serialized Storytelling
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Oct 22, 2017 |
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12.42: Adapting Your Stories for Game Play, with Alan Bahr
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Oct 15, 2017 |
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12.41: Raising the Stakes
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Oct 08, 2017 |
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12.40: Structuring a Novel
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Oct 01, 2017 |
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12.39: Q&A on Short(er) Fiction
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Sep 24, 2017 |
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12.38: What Do Editors Really Want, with Toni Weisskopf and Cat Rambo
|
Sep 17, 2017 |
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12.37: Subplots
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Sep 10, 2017 |
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12.36: Structuring a Mid-Length Piece
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Sep 03, 2017 |
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12.35: Short Fiction Markets, with Spencer Ellsworth and guest host Beth Meacham
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Aug 27, 2017 |
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12.34: Fulfilling the Reader’s Fantasy, with Brian McClellan
|
Aug 20, 2017 |
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12.33: How to be Brief, Yet Powerful
|
Aug 13, 2017 |
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12.32: Structuring a Short Piece
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Aug 06, 2017 |
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12.31: What Makes a Good Monster, with Courtney Alameda
|
Jul 30, 2017 |
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12.30: Tools for Writers
|
Jul 23, 2017 |
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12.29: “Oh Crap, the Cops are Here!” with Joe McKinney
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Jul 16, 2017 |
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12.28: Trimming and Expanding
|
Jul 09, 2017 |
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12.27: Choosing a Length
|
Jul 02, 2017 |
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12.26: Q&A on Outlining and Discovery Writing
|
Jun 25, 2017 |
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12.25: Hiring an Editor, with Callie Stoker
|
Jun 18, 2017 |
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12.24: Creating Great Outlines
|
Jun 11, 2017 |
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12.23: Proposals, Pitches, and Queries
|
Jun 04, 2017 |
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12.22: Hybrid Outlining and Discovery Writing
|
May 28, 2017 |
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12.21: Narrative Bumper Pool, with Bill Fawcett and Carrie Patel
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May 21, 2017 |
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12.20: Retrofitting Structure into a First Draft
|
May 14, 2017 |
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12.19: Structure on the Fly
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May 07, 2017 |
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12.18: Gendered Dialect, with J.R. Johansson
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Apr 30, 2017 |
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12.17: Q&A on Style, Diction, and Paragraphing
|
Apr 23, 2017 |
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12.16: Writing Crime Fiction with Brian Keene
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Apr 16, 2017 |
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12.15: Pacing With Chapters
|
Apr 09, 2017 |
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12.14: Controlling Pacing with Structure
|
Apr 03, 2017 |
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12.13: Beautiful Prose, Purple Prose
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Mar 26, 2017 |
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12.12: Words as Words, with Linda Addison
|
Mar 19, 2017 |
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12.11: Diction
|
Mar 12, 2017 |
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12.10: Developing Your Own, Personal Style
|
Mar 05, 2017 |
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12.9: Q&A on Viewpoint
|
Feb 26, 2017 |
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12.8 Short Stories as Exploration, with Tananarive Due
|
Feb 19, 2017 |
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12.7: Description Through the Third Person Lens
|
Feb 12, 2017 |
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12.6: Variations on Third Person
|
Feb 05, 2017 |
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12.5: Literary Fiction
|
Jan 29, 2017 |
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12.4: Hybrid Viewpoints
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Jan 22, 2017 |
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12.3: Project in Depth, “Risk Assessment,” by Sandra Tayler
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Jan 15, 2017 |
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12.2: How to Nail Character Voice in First Person
|
Jan 08, 2017 |
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12.1: Variations on First Person
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Jan 01, 2017 |
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11.52: Elemental Ensemble Q&A, With Claudia Gray
|
Dec 24, 2016 |
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11.51: Ensemble as a Sub-Genre, with Lynne M. Thomas
|
Dec 18, 2016 |
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11.50: Hand-Selling Your Book to Potential Readers, with Michael R. Underwood
|
Dec 11, 2016 |
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11.49: Elemental Ensemble, with Michael Damien Thomas
|
Dec 04, 2016 |
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11.Bonus-04: Fantasy Food, with Elizabeth Bear and Scott Lynch
|
Nov 29, 2016 |
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11.48: Elemental Issue Q&A, with DongWon Song
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Nov 27, 2016 |
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11.47: Issue as a Subgenre, with Steven Barnes
|
Nov 20, 2016 |
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11.46: Colonialism, with Steven Barnes, Tempest Bradford, DongWon Song, and Shveta Thakrar
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Nov 13, 2016 |
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11.45: Elemental Issue, with Desiree Burch
|
Nov 06, 2016 |
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11.Bonus-03: Some Books Have Maps in the Front, with Maurice Broaddus, Mur Lafferty, and James Sutter
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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11.Bonus-02: Horrifying the Children, with Darren Shan
|
Nov 01, 2016 |
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11.44: Project in Depth, GHOST TALKERS, by Mary Robinette Kowal
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Oct 30, 2016 |
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11.43: Elemental Drama Q&A, with Tananarive Due
|
Oct 23, 2016 |
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11.42: Elemental Drama as a Sub-Genre
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Oct 16, 2016 |
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11.Bonus-01: Characterization and Differentiation, with Robin Hobb
|
Oct 13, 2016 |
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11.41: The Editor’s Wish List, with Navah Wolfe
|
Oct 09, 2016 |
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11.40: Elemental Drama
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Oct 02, 2016 |
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11.39: Elemental Relationship Q&A, with Greg van Eekhout
|
Sep 25, 2016 |
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11.38: The Elemental Relationship as a Sub-Genre
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Sep 18, 2016 |
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11.37: Casting Your Book, with Gama Martinez
|
Sep 11, 2016 |
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11.36: The Elemental Relationship
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Sep 04, 2016 |
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11.35: Elemental Humor Q&A with Victoria Schwab
|
Aug 28, 2016 |
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11.34: Humor as a Sub-Genre
|
Aug 21, 2016 |
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11.33: Crossover Fiction, with Victoria Schwab
|
Aug 14, 2016 |
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11.32: The Element of Humor
|
Aug 07, 2016 |
|
11.31: Futurism, with Trina Marie Phillips
|
Jul 31, 2016 |
|
11.30: Elemental Thriller Q&A
|
Jul 24, 2016 |
|
11.29: Elemental Thriller as a Subgenre
|
Jul 17, 2016 |
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11.28: Impostor Syndrome, with Alyssa Wong
|
Jul 10, 2016 |
|
11.27: The Elemental Thriller
|
Jul 03, 2016 |
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11.26: Elemental Mystery Q&A
|
Jun 26, 2016 |
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11.25: Elemental Mystery is Everywhere
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Jun 19, 2016 |
|
11.24: Stakes!
|
Jun 12, 2016 |
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11.23: The Element of Mystery
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Jun 05, 2016 |
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11.22: Examining Unconscious Biases, with Shannon Hale
|
May 29, 2016 |
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11.21: Q&A on Elemental Horror, with Steve Diamond
|
May 22, 2016 |
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11.20: Horror as a Subgenre
|
May 15, 2016 |
|
11.19: Fashion for Writers, with Rebecca McKinney
|
May 08, 2016 |
|
11.18: Elemental Horror
|
May 01, 2016 |
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11.17: Elemental Adventure Q&A
|
Apr 24, 2016 |
|
11.16: Adventure as a Subgenre
|
Apr 17, 2016 |
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11.15: The Environment, with L.E. Modessit, Jr.
|
Apr 10, 2016 |
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11.14: The Element of Adventure
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Apr 03, 2016 |
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11.13: Elemental Idea Q&A
|
Mar 27, 2016 |
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11.12: Idea as Subgenre, With Nancy Fulda
|
Mar 20, 2016 |
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11.11: Self Publishing in 2016, with Michaelbrent Collings
|
Mar 13, 2016 |
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11.10: Idea, as Genre, with Nancy Fulda
|
Mar 06, 2016 |
|
11.09: Q&A on the Element of Wonder
|
Feb 28, 2016 |
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11.08: Wonder as a Subgenre
|
Feb 21, 2016 |
|
11.07: The Convention Survival Kit, with Gail Carriger
|
Feb 14, 2016 |
|
11.06: The Element of Wonder
|
Feb 07, 2016 |
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11.05: Writing and World Building for Role Playing Games
|
Jan 31, 2016 |
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11.04: Newton’s Laws of Writing
|
Jan 24, 2016 |
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11.03: Layering The Elemental Genres
|
Jan 17, 2016 |
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11.2: How To Get The Most Out Of A Conference, with Kathy Chung
|
Jan 10, 2016 |
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Writing Excuses 11.1: Introduction to Elemental Genre
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Jan 03, 2016 |
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Writing Excuses 10.52: Moving On, with Ellen Kushner
|
Dec 27, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.51: Q&A on Showing Your Work, with Daniel José Older
|
Dec 20, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.50: How to Hand-Sell Your Manuscript to Agents and Editors, with Michael Underwood and Marco Palmieri
|
Dec 13, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.49: What Do I Do With This Thing Now?
|
Dec 06, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.48: Project in Depth, The Devil’s Only Friend
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Nov 29, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.47: Q&A on Revision
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Nov 22, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.46: How Do I Make This Pretty?
|
Nov 15, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.45: Q&A at the GenCon Writing Symposium, with Kameron Hurley, James L. Sutter, and Michael Underwood
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Nov 08, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.44: How Do I Fix What is Broken?
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Nov 01, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.43: Q&A on Endings, with Delia Sherman
|
Oct 25, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.42: How In The World Do I Tie All This Together?
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Oct 18, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.41: Your Character’s Moral Pendulum
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Oct 11, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.40: What’s the Difference Between Ending and Stopping?
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Oct 04, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.39: Q&A on Plot Twists with Kevin J. Anderson
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Sep 27, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.38: How Does Context Shape Dialog?
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Sep 20, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.37: Being a Good Panelist and a Great Moderator, with Susan J. Morris and Marc Tassin
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Sep 13, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.36: How Does Context Shape Plot Twists?
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Sep 06, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.35: Breaking In, With Charlie N. Holmberg
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Aug 30, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.34: Q&A on Pacing
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Aug 23, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.33: Combat, with Marie Brennan
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Aug 16, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.32: How Do I Control the Speed of the Story?
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Aug 09, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.31: How Do I Control the Reader’s Sense of Progress?
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Aug 02, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.30: Q&A on Middles, with Marie Brennan
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Jul 26, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.29: Why Should My Characters Fail Spectacularly?
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Jul 19, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.28: Polytheism in Fiction, with Marie Brennan
|
Jul 12, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.27: Why Can’t I Just Jump to the Ending?
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Jul 05, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.26: Q&A on Scenes and Description
|
Jun 28, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.25: What Makes a Scene?
|
Jun 21, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.24: Hooking Younger Readers
|
Jun 14, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.23: Can You Tell Me How To Show?
|
Jun 07, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.22: Project-in-Depth—Of Noble Family
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May 31, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.21: Q&A on World Building
|
May 24, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.20: How Do I Write a Story, Not an Encyclopedia?
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May 17, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.19: Intrigue
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May 10, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.18: Build an Entire World? Are You Crazy?
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May 03, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.17: Q&A on Beginnings
|
Apr 26, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.16: What Do I Do With All This Blank Space?
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Apr 19, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.15: Worldbuilding Wilderness with Wes Chu
|
Apr 12, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.14: How Much of the Beginning Needs to Come First?
|
Apr 05, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.13: Where is My Story Going?
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Mar 30, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.12: Story structure Q&A, with Special Guest Wesley Chu
|
Mar 23, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.11: Project In Depth: “Parallel Perspectives”
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Mar 15, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.10: Q&A with the I Ching
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Mar 08, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.9: Where is My Story Coming From?
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Mar 02, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.8: Q&A on Character
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Feb 22, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.7: Who Are All These People?
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Feb 16, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.6: The Worldbuilding Revolves Around Me (“The Magical 1%”)
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Feb 09, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.5: What Do You Mean My Main Character is Boring?
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Feb 02, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.4: Q&A on Ideas
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Jan 25, 2015 |
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2015 Hugo Award Eligibility – SHADOWS BENEATH
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Jan 21, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.3: Lovecraftian Horror
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Jan 20, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.2: I Have an Idea; What Do I Do Now?
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Jan 12, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 10.1: Seriously, Where Do You Get Your Ideas?
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Jan 05, 2015 |
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Writing Excuses 9.54: Capstone to Season 9
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Dec 29, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.53: Writing For Fun
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Dec 22, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses Season 9.52: From the Page to the Stage
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Dec 15, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.51: Q&A At The Retreat
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Dec 08, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.50: Writing for the Enfranchised Reader
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Dec 04, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.48: Neurobolics of Characters
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Dec 01, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.49: Hiding the Open Grave
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Nov 24, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.47: Conversation With a Bookseller
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Nov 18, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.46: Disability in Narrative
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Nov 09, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.45: Tools for Writing from Oral Storytelling
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Nov 03, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.44: Getting in the Writer’s Mindset with Peter Beagle
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Oct 27, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.43: Writing Mysteries
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Oct 20, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.42: The Convention-Author Relationship, with Deirdre Saoirse Moen
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Oct 12, 2014 |
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Registration is open for the 2015 Out of Excuses Writing Workshop and Retreat
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Oct 09, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.41: Fan Writing, with Christopher J. Garcia
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Oct 05, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.40: Understanding Royalties, with Paul Stevens
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Sep 28, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.39: Publicity for Books
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Sep 22, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.38: Q&A at Westercon
|
Sep 15, 2014 |
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9.37: Training A Critique Group, with Kathleen Dalton Woodbury
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Sep 08, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.36: Writing Instruction
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Sep 01, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.35: What to do when you disagree with your editor
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Aug 24, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.34: Science Fiction as Science Education
|
Aug 17, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.33: Microcasting
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Aug 10, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.32: Adjusting Character Proactivity
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Aug 03, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.31: Critiquing “An Honest Death”
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Jul 27, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.30: Critiquing A Fire in the Heavens
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Jul 20, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.29: Part 2 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk
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Jul 13, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.28: Part 1 of 2, Critiquing Sixth of the Dusk
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Jul 06, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.27: Pre-writing
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Jun 30, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.26: Adjusting Character Competence
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Jun 23, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.25: Adjusting Character Sympathy
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Jun 16, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.24: Side Quests
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Jun 09, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.23: World Building Without Breaking Viewpoint
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Jun 02, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.22: Microcasting
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May 26, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.21: Sanderson’s 3rd Law
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May 19, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.20: Creator vs Creation
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May 12, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.19: Showing Emotion
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May 05, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.18: Microcasting
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Apr 28, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.17: Microcasting
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Apr 21, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.16: Coming up with a New Ending Halfway Through
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Apr 16, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.15: Becoming a Writer—Full Disclosure
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Apr 07, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.14: How to have an Opinion as a Public Figure
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Apr 04, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.13: Three Pronged Character Development
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Mar 30, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.12: Microcasting! Twice in a row!
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Mar 24, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.11: Microcasting
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Mar 17, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.10: Engaging Characters
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Mar 10, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.9: What to do When Truth is Stranger than Fiction
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Mar 03, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.8: When is your Handwavium Good Enough?
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Feb 24, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.7: Last Pass Revisions with Eric James Stone
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Feb 16, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.6: The Experience of Time
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Feb 10, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.5: Hijacking the Knowledge You Already Have, with Mette Ivie Harrison
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Feb 03, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.4: Artificial Intelligence with Nancy Fulda
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Jan 27, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.3: Character Perception vs. Narrative Perception with Nancy Fulda
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Jan 19, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.2: Hard Science Fiction with Eric James Stone
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Jan 13, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 9.1: Chronology of a Book Deal with Eric James Stone
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Jan 06, 2014 |
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Writing Excuses 8.52: You Think You Don’t Have Time to Write, with Mette Ivie Harrison
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Dec 30, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.51: Creative non-fiction with Mette Ivie Harrison
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Dec 23, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.50: Q&A with Mercedes Lackey
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Dec 15, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.49: Hard Social Science Fiction with Joel Shepherd
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Dec 08, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.48: Long-Form Storytelling with Sam Logan
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Dec 01, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.47: Roguishness with Scott Lynch
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Nov 25, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.46: Editing with Aeryn Rudel
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Nov 17, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.45: Gencon Q&A With Wesley Chu
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Nov 11, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.44: Talking Publishing with Tom Doherty
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Nov 03, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.43: Realistic Melee Fighting with Wesley Chu
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Oct 27, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.42: The Internal Heckler vs. The Internal Editor
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Oct 20, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.41: Out of Excuses Retreat Microcasting
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Oct 14, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.40: Publishing with Bill Schafer
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Oct 07, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.39: Dystopian Fiction with Cherie Priest
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Sep 30, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.38:Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #2
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Sep 23, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.37: When Fail Happens in Your Career
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Sep 16, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.36: Transitioning Characters in Prominence
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Sep 08, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.35: Digging Yourself Out of Holes with Jeph Jacques
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Sep 01, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.34: Survivorship Bias
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Aug 26, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable
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Aug 18, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting
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Aug 11, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.31: Combining Dialogue, Blocking, and Description
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Aug 04, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.30: Writing Reluctant Characters
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Jul 29, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.29: Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #1
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Jul 22, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.28: Your First Contract
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Jul 14, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns
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Jul 07, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.26: Space Opera
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Jun 30, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.25: Middle Grade with E.J. Patten
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Jun 23, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.24: Project in Depth–Kiss Me Twice
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Jun 16, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.23: Microcasting
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Jun 09, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.22: Pre-writing with E.J. Patten
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Jun 02, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.21: What the Avengers did Right
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May 26, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.20: The Short Story, with Mary Robinette Kowal
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May 19, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.19: Writing and Convention Culture
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May 12, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.18: Blocking
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May 06, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.17: Microcasting
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Apr 28, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.16: Brainstorming with Brandon Again
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Apr 22, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.15: Narrative Rhythm
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Apr 15, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.14: Brainstorming with Brandon
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Apr 07, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.13: Fake It Till You Make it
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Apr 01, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.12: Project in Depth — Deus ex Nauseum
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Mar 24, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.11: Abnormal Psychology
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Mar 18, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.10: Brainstorming With Howard Again
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Mar 11, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.9: Brainstorming with Howard
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Mar 04, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.8: Writing and Personal Health
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Feb 25, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.7: Cliffhangers and Icebergs with Robison Wells
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Feb 17, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.6: Retellings and Adaptations
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Feb 11, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.5: Breaking the Rules
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Feb 04, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.4: Side-Character Arcs
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Jan 28, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.3: Pets
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Jan 21, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.2: Hero’s Journey
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Jan 13, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 8.1: Microcasting
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Jan 06, 2013 |
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Writing Excuses 7.54: Four Ways the Industry is Changing
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Dec 31, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.53: Secret History
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Dec 26, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.52: Microcasting
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Dec 17, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.51: Brainstorming with Mary
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Dec 12, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.50: Outlining the Mary Way
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Dec 10, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.49: Beginnings Revisited
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Dec 03, 2012 |
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NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Episode 4, with Mary & Brandon
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Nov 29, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.48: Pixar Rules for Writing a Compelling Story
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Nov 26, 2012 |
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NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Episode 3, with Howard
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Nov 23, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.47: Raising the Stakes
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Nov 19, 2012 |
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NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Mini-Episode 2, with Dan & Rob
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Nov 15, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.46: Project in Depth The Emperor’s Soul
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Nov 12, 2012 |
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NaNoWriMo 2012: Bonus Mini-Episode 1, with Brandon & Mary
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Nov 08, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.45: Microcasting
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Nov 05, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.44: Writing for Comics with Jim Zub
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Oct 29, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.43: Tie-in Fantasy Fiction with James L Sutter
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Oct 22, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.42: Contemporary YA Fiction
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Oct 15, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.41: Seven-Point Story Structure
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Oct 07, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.40: Writing the Other
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Oct 01, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.39: Death
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Sep 23, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.38: Writing Love Scenes
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Sep 16, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.37: Pantsing
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Sep 10, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.35: Brainstorming with Dan
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Sep 02, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.36: Writing Gaming Fiction with Monte Cook
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Aug 27, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.34: How to Start the Next One
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Aug 19, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.33: Authentic Emotion
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Aug 13, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.32: Astronomy 101 for Writers
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Aug 06, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.31: Project in Depth — Hollow City
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Jul 30, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.30: Micocasting…Again!
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Jul 23, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.29: The Villain Problem
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Jul 15, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.28: Project in Depth– Glamour in Glass
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Jul 09, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.27: The Problem of Originality
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Jul 02, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.26: Q&A at UVU part 2
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Jun 25, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.25: Writing Capers
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Jun 17, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.24: Project in Depth — Way of Kings
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Jun 10, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.23: Time Travel
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Jun 03, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.22: Microcasting
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May 27, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.21: Project In Depth — Force Multiplication
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May 21, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.20: Cathartic Horror
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May 14, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.19: Q&A at UVU
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May 07, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.18: Discovering your Voice
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Apr 30, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.17: Guns and Fiction
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Apr 23, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.16: Continuing with Mary’s Outline
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Apr 16, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.15: Editing Mary’s Outline
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Apr 09, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.14: Writing Excuses
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Apr 01, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.13: Man Vs. Nature
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Mar 25, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.12: Writing the Omniscient Viewpoint
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Mar 18, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.11: More Microcasting
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Mar 12, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.10: Importance of Criticism, with David Brin
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Mar 05, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.9: Microcasting
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.8: The City as a Character
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Feb 20, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.7: Historical Fantasy
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Feb 13, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.6: Behind the Marshmallow
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Feb 06, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.5: Sensory Writing
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity
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Jan 23, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.3: Fauna and Flora
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Jan 16, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.2: World Building Flora and Fauna
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Jan 09, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 7.1 When Good Characters Go Bad
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Jan 02, 2012 |
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Writing Excuses 6.30: Help! I Can’t End My Book!
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Dec 26, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.29: Character Foils
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Dec 19, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.28: Interstitial Art
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Dec 12, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.27: Fantasy Setting Yard Sale
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Dec 04, 2011 |
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NaNoWriMo Pep-talk from Howard
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Nov 30, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.26: Mystery Plotting
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Nov 28, 2011 |
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Dan
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Nov 23, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.25: When Characters do Dumb Things
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Nov 21, 2011 |
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Mary
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Nov 17, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.24: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
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Nov 14, 2011 |
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NaNoWriMo Pep-Talk from Brandon
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Nov 09, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.23: Pigeon Holes
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Nov 07, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.22: Continuing Education for Writers
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Oct 31, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.21: Brainstorming From Story Seeds
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Oct 24, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.20: Endings
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Oct 17, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.19: Pitching
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Oct 10, 2011 |
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6.18: The Hollywood Formula, with Lou Anders
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Oct 02, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.17: Writing Assistants
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Sep 25, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.16: Gender Roles–Black, White, and Gray
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Sep 19, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.15: Writing Other Cultures
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Sep 12, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.14: Suspension of Disbelief
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Sep 05, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.13: World Building Communications Technology
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Aug 29, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.12: Revising For Description
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Aug 22, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.11: Making Your Descriptions Do More Than One Thing
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Aug 15, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.10: Scott Card’s M.I.C.E. Quotient
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Aug 08, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.9: Microcasting 2 Electric Boogaloo
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Jul 31, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.8: What an Agent Does
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Jul 25, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.7: Brainstorming a Cyberpunk Story
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Jul 18, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.6: Cyberpunk
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Jul 11, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.5: Query Letters
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Jul 04, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.4: Microcasting
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.3: Professional Organizations
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Jun 20, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.2: Internal Motivations
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Jun 13, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 6.1: Can Creativity be Taught?
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Jun 06, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.39: Filking and Writing Music with Tom Smith
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May 30, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.38: Dialog with John Scalzi
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May 23, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.37: Parody and Satire with Jim Hines
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May 16, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.36: Non-Traditional Settings with Saladin Ahmed
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May 09, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.35: Brainstorming Urban Fantasy
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May 02, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.34: Story Bibles
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Apr 24, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses on the 2011 Hugo Ballot
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Apr 24, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.33: Alpha Readers
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Apr 17, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.32: Urban Fantasy
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Apr 10, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.31: Writing Romance
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Apr 04, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.30: Writing Action
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Mar 28, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.29: Rewriting
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Mar 21, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.28: E-publishing
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Mar 14, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.27: Perseverance, with Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Mar 07, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.26: Scared for the Characters
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Feb 28, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.25: Writing in Other People’s Universes
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Feb 21, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.24: The Author’s Responsibility to the Reader
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Feb 14, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.23: Life Day!
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Feb 07, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.22: Film Considerations
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Jan 31, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.21: Alternate History
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Jan 24, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.20: More Dialog Exercises
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Jan 17, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.19: Fulfilling Promises to Your Readers
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Jan 10, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.18: Offending Your Readers
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Jan 03, 2011 |
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Writing Excuses 5.17: Dialog Exercises
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Dec 28, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.16: Critiquing Dan’s First Novel
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Dec 20, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.12: Time Travel!
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Dec 13, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.15: Steampunk with Scott Westerfeld
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Dec 06, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.14: Visual Components of Novels with Scott Westerfeld
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Nov 29, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.13: Writing the Second Book
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Nov 22, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.12: The Secret of Lincoln’s Gold
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Nov 22, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.11: MicroPodcasting 2
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Nov 15, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.10: John Brown and the Creative Process
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Nov 08, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses Bonus Episode! Voting in the Service of a Dark God
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Nov 02, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.9: Character Arcs
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Nov 01, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.8: The Excuses You’re Out Of
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Oct 25, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.7: Avoiding Melodrama
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Oct 17, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.6.01: Flash Fiction
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Oct 12, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.6: MicroPodcasts
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Oct 10, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.5: Writing the Unfamiliar
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Oct 04, 2010 |
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Parsec Acceptance Speech 2010
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Sep 28, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.4: Creating Suspense
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Sep 27, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 5.3: First Person Viewpoint
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Sep 19, 2010 |
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WE 5.2: Character Quirks
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Sep 12, 2010 |
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WE 5.1: Third Person Limited
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Sep 07, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.34: Q&A at Dragons & Fairy Tales
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Aug 29, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.33: Trunk Novels
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Aug 23, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.32: First Paragraphs
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Aug 16, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.31: Line Editing Dialog
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Aug 09, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.30: Worldbuilding the Future
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Aug 02, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.29: Line Editing
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Jul 26, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.28: Brainstorming The End and Working Backwards
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Jul 19, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.27: Major Overhauls to Broken Stories
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Jul 12, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.26: Avoiding Stilted Dialog
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Jul 05, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.25: Mating Plumage
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Jun 27, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.24: Random Storytelling
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Jun 20, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.23: How to Break In to the Young Adult Market
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Jun 13, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.22: Q&A with L.E. Modesitt, Jr
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Jun 07, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.21: Writing Practical Fantasy
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May 31, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.20: Strategies for Getting Published
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May 24, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.19: Discovery Writing
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May 17, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.18: How to Steal for Fun and Profit
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May 10, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.17: Living with the Artist
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May 03, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.16: Breaking the Fourth Wall
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Apr 26, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.15: Visual Components of Storytelling
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Apr 19, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.14: Brainstorming Science Ideas
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Apr 12, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.13: Juggling Multiple Viewpoints
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Apr 05, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.12: Writing An Epic
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Mar 29, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.11: Brainstorming From Headlines
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Mar 22, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.10: Writing for Young Adults
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Mar 14, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.9: How to Write Men, with Jessica Day George
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Mar 08, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.8: Working with Editors
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Mar 01, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.7: Q&A with James Dashner
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Feb 22, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.6: Pacing with James Dashner
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Feb 15, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.5: Roleplaying Games as Tools for Story Telling
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Feb 08, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.4: Agents. Do you need one?
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Feb 01, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.3: How to Manage Your Influences
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Jan 25, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.2: Heroism
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Jan 17, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses 4.1: Types of Humor
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Jan 11, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 32: Collaboration
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Jan 04, 2010 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 31: Tragedy
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Dec 28, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 29: Antiheroes
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Dec 20, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 30: Unreliable Narrators
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Dec 14, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 28: World-Building Gender Roles
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Dec 07, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 27: Mixing Humor with Drama and Horror
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 26: NaNoWriMo
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Nov 23, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 25: The Business of Writing Comics
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 24: Writing Comics with Jake Black
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Nov 09, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 23: How to Write Without Twists
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Nov 02, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 22: Idea to Story
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Oct 25, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 21: Pitfalls of Self Publishing with Larry Correia
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Oct 19, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 20: Plot- vs. Character-Driven Fiction
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Oct 12, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 19: Emotion in Fiction with John Brown
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Oct 05, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 18: How To Not Repeat Yourself
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Sep 28, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 17: Characters & Worldbuilding Q&A with Mary Robinette Kowal
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Sep 21, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 16: The Anti-Mary Sue Episode
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Sep 13, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses: Parsec Award Acceptance Speech
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Sep 13, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 15: Writing Process Q&A, with Mary Robinette Kowal
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Sep 06, 2009 |
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3.14: The Four Principles of Puppetry, with Mary Robinette Kowal
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Aug 31, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 13: Dialects and In-World Jargon
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Aug 24, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 12: Subplots
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Aug 17, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 11: Trimming
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Aug 09, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 10: The Dos and Don’ts of Attending Cons
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Aug 03, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 9: Conventions You Should Be Attending
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Jul 27, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 8: What Star Trek Did Right
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Jul 20, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 7: Genre Blending
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Jul 13, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 6: Dramatic Breaks
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Jul 07, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 5: How to Take Criticism
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Jun 29, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 3: Stumping Howard at Conduit
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Jun 22, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 2: Keeping it Real with Aprilynne Pike
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Jun 15, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 4: Non Linear Story Telling
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Jun 08, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 1: World-Building History
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Jun 01, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 33: How To Not Be Overwhelmed
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May 25, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 32: The Most Important Thing Dan Learned In The Last Year
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May 18, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 31: The Most Important Thing Brandon Learned In The Last Year
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May 11, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 30: The Most Important Thing Howard Learned In The Last Year
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May 03, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 29: How not to end your book
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Apr 27, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 28: Applying Critical Reading: “Watchmen”
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Apr 20, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 27: Reading Critically
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Apr 13, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 26: How Publishing is Changing in the new Century
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Apr 06, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 632: Now that we’ve got time travel what do we do with it?
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Apr 01, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 25: The Seven Deadly Sins of Slush Stories
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Mar 30, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 24: Writing Habits and Q&A with Tracy Hickman
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Mar 24, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 23: Avoiding the Cliché with Tracy Hickman
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Mar 16, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 22: Marketing 201, Branding for Authors
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Mar 09, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 21: Fight Scenes
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Mar 02, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 20: Marketing 101 for Creators
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Feb 23, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 19: Do Creative Writing Classes Help
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Feb 16, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 18: World Building Governments
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Feb 09, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 17: Website Marketing for Authors
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 16: Non-Human Races
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Jan 26, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 15: Knowing When To Begin
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 14: Writing Habits
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Jan 12, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 13: Violence
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Jan 05, 2009 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 12: Theme
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Dec 29, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 11: Talking Publishing and Writing with Dave Wolverton
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Dec 22, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 10: The Boring Parts
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Dec 15, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 9: Romance, with Dave Wolverton
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Dec 08, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 8: The Three Act Structure with Bob Defendi
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Dec 01, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 7: Using Writing Formulas with Bob Defendi
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Nov 24, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 6: Endings
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Nov 17, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 5: Writing Groups
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Nov 11, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 4:View point, Plot Twists and Being a Part-Time Writer with Eric James Stone
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Nov 03, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 3: Characters with Brandon Mull
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Oct 27, 2008 |
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Writing Season 2 Episode 2: How to Write for Children with Brandon Mull
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Oct 20, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Bonus Episode 1: Live at the Mistborn 3 Release
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Oct 17, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Season 2 Episode 1: Q&A on Setting and Characters at Mountain Con with John Brown
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Oct 13, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 35: Voice, Tone and Style
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Oct 06, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 34: What The Dark Knight Did Right
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Sep 29, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 33: Side Characters
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Sep 22, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episodes 32: Talking Exposition with Patrick Rothfuss
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Sep 15, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 31: Talking RPG and Game Writing with Steve Jackson
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Sep 08, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 30: Talking Revision with Moshe Feder
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Sep 02, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 29: Talking Publishing with Lou Anders
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Aug 25, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 28: Writing for Webcomics with Phil and Kaja Foglio
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Aug 18, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 27: World-Building Religion
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Aug 11, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 26: Horror
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Aug 05, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 25: Viewpoint and Tense Part 2
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Jul 28, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 24: Research
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 23: Viewpoint
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Jul 15, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 22: Doing The Unpopular
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Jul 07, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 21: Humor
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 20: More Q&A from Conduit
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Jun 23, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 19: Plot Twists
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 18: Q&A at Conduit
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Jun 09, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 17: This Sucks and I’m a Horrible Writer
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Jun 02, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 16: Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard
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May 26, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 15: Costs and Ramifications of Magic
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May 19, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 14: Magic Systems and their Rules
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May 12, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 13: Submitting to Editors Part 2
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May 05, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 12: Submitting to Editors Part 1
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Apr 28, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 11: The Business of Writing
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Apr 21, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 10: Pacing
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Apr 14, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 9: Sci-Fi Sub-Genre
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Apr 07, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 8: Sci-Fi Genre
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Mar 31, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Bonus Episode 2: Rules of Writing Excuses
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Mar 24, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 7: Villains
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Mar 24, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 6: Flaws vs Handicaps
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Mar 17, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Bonus Episode 1: Remembering Gary Gygax
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 5: Heroes and Protagonists
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Mar 10, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 4: Beginnings
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Mar 03, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 3: Killing your Darlings
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Feb 25, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 2: Blending the Familiar and the Original
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Feb 18, 2008 |
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Writing Excuses Episode 1: Brainstorming
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Feb 11, 2008 |