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The 6 Literary Forces Every Writer Must Master 29 Jun 2013 | 01:30 am
You may be aware of what’s becoming widely known as the “six core competencies of storytelling.” These core competencies, as defined by my go-to fiction-writing guru, Larry Brooks (of StoryFix.com), a...
How To Crowdfund Your Book 12 Jun 2013 | 07:20 am
By Justine Schofield of Pubslush Crowdfunding. Ever heard of it? If not, let me introduce you. Crowdfunding is a means for artists and entrepreneurs to mitigate financial risk by raising funds for the...
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The Superman Problem, and my bet with my brother fearfulsymmetry.net 4 Jun 2013 | 04:17 pm
So there’s a new Superman movie coming out soon, and this has prompted many conversations about “The Superman Problem.” I’ve talked about this on Writing Excuses before, and it sums up as this: “If yo...
Updates Catch-Up + Michael Whelan Stormlight 2 Cover brandonsanderson.com 5 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Playing catch-up with the Writing Excuses podcast, we did episodes on both Writing Reluctant Characters and Combining Dialogue, Blocking, and Description. We also did a Q&A session at the Out of Excus...
Writing Excuses 8.34: Survivorship Bias writingexcuses.com 26 Aug 2013 | 05:22 am
When people who have succeeded at a given endeavor speak about their success, we are inclined to listen because hey, we’d like to succeed there as well. It’s critical to recognize the bias here. Survi...
Writing Excuses 8.33: Making Non-Human Characters Relatable writingexcuses.com 19 Aug 2013 | 03:00 am
How do you help your readers relate to the non-human characters in your fiction? The first question to answer is why you’re putting non-human characters in the piece to begin with. What are your goal...
Writing Excuses 8.32: Microcasting writingexcuses.com 12 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Microcasting! It’s what we call a Q&A, because it’s like several little podcasts in one! Here are the questions (you’ll have to listen to the show for the answers): How do you manage your workload? ...
Writing Excuses 8.31: Combining Dialogue, Blocking, and Description writingexcuses.com 5 Aug 2013 | 02:02 am
The combination of dialogue, blocking, and description, can be considered from a couple of directions. The first is the idea that we’re really talking about making every element do double or triple du...
Writing Excuses 8.30: Writing Reluctant Characters writingexcuses.com 29 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
What’s a reluctant character? Well, it’s somebody who needs to be dragged along into the adventure, somebody who isn’t the sort of self-motivated, go-getter that we so often populate our books with. T...
Writing Excuses 8.29: Out of Excuses Retreat Q&A #1 writingexcuses.com 22 Jul 2013 | 05:00 am
We recorded this episode in front of our live audience at the first-ever Out of Excuses Workshop and Retreat. Here are the questions (you’ll have to listen for the answers): To Dan: How did you go ab...
Writing Excuses 8.28: Your First Contract writingexcuses.com 15 Jul 2013 | 04:46 am
We haven’t talked much about contracts in the past. Why not? Well, we’re not lawyers and we’re not agents, so our experience with contracts has been as parties to them. But there are things we can sti...
Writing Excuses 8.27: Chapter Breakdowns writingexcuses.com 8 Jul 2013 | 04:51 am
What determines our chapter breaks? How do we handle POV shifts, scene-sequel balance, and other considerations when we’re carving our stories into chapters? Dan starts with a discussion of the POV c...
