History Podcast / WritingExcuses

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/08/07/writing-excuses-6-10-scott-cards-m-i-c-e-quotient/ Episode 10]] - Creator/OrsonScottCard’s [[{{Settings}} M]].[[{{Plots}} I]].[[{{Characters}} C]].[[IncitingIncident E]]. Quotient

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/07/12/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-7-genre-blending/ Episode 7]] - [[MixAndMatch Genre Blending]]

** Specifically, "[[WriterRevolt doing things to the reader that they would never do to themselves]]" [[DoingItForTheArt because the story is better that way]].

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/12/01/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-27-mixing-humor-with-drama-and-horror/ Episode 27]] - Mixing [[CasualDangerDialog Humor]] with [[DramaTropes Drama]] and [[HorrorTropes Horror]]

** SomethingCompletelyDifferent

** InTheStyleOf

** [[MohsScaleOfSciFiHardness Hard SF]]

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2012/08/05/writing-excuses-7-32-astronomy-101-for-writers/ Episode 32]] - [[ArtisticLicenseAstronomy Astronomy 101]] for Writers

* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: "In a fantasy book you can do everything you can do in another novel, plus you can have dragons." from episode 21 from the first season.

[[SoYouWantTo/WriteAStory So you want to write a story]]? Well you're in luck. ''Writing Excuses'' is a weekly {{podcast}} by Creator/BrandonSanderson, Howard Tayler of ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Creator/DanWells, and Creator/MaryRobinetteKowal --formerly a [[GuestStarPartyMember recurring guest host]] and now an official full-time host as of Season 6. Updated every Sunday, each week's episode focuses on a particular aspect of the writing process, from [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/02/10/writing-excuses-episode-1-brainstorming/ brainstorming]] to [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/05/23/writing-excuses-4-20-strategies-for-getting-published/ getting published]], usually responding to particular obstacles that are common for beginning and improving writers. Naturally, numerous tropes have been touched upon along the way, discussed in terms of [[TropesAreTools how to use them to make your book better]] and avoiding bad writing. Often a guest host (usually a recently-published author or a personal/professional friend of one of the authors with ties to the writing world) will join the quartet for an episode or two to add outsider input as well. The series also features a [[EnforcedPlug Book of the Week]] for listeners to read which is often pertinent to the topic being discussed. Or sometimes [[ShamelessSelfPromoter it's just one of their own books]]. [[NowBuyTheMerchandise They gotta make money somehow]].

----->''I'm Mary!''

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/04/13/writing-excuses-episode-10-pacing/ Episode 10]] - [[PacingProblems Pacing]]

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/07/20/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-8-what-star-trek-did-right/ Episode 8]] - What ''Film/StarTrek'' Did Right

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/03/29/writing-excuses-season-2-episode-25-the-seven-deadly-sins-of-slush-stories/ Episode 25]] - The Seven Deadly Sins of [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible Slush Stories]]

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/11/28/writing-excuses-5-14-visual-components-of-novels-with-scott-westerfeld/ Episode 14]] - [[FantasyWorldMap Visual Components]] of Novels with ScottWesterfeld
* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/12/05/writing-excuses-5-15-steampunk-with-scott-westerfeld/ Episode 15]] - {{Steampunk}} with ScottWesterfeld

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/11/22/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-26-nanowrimo/ Episode 26]] - NaNoWriMo

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/09/15/writing-excuses-episodes-32-talking-exposition-with-patrick-rothfuss/ Episode 32]] - Talking {{Exposition}} with [[TheNameOfTheWind Patrick Rothfuss]]

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/07/28/writing-excuses-episode-25-viewpoint-and-tense-part-2/ Episode 25]] - Viewpoint and Tense (Part 2) [[HowDoIUsedTense (Tense)]]

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2012/07/29/writing-excuses-7-31-project-in-depth-hollow-city/ Episode 31]] - Project in Depth--''[[DanWells The Hollow City]]''

* [[http://www.writingexcuses.com/2012/11/25/ Episode 48]] - {{Pixar}} Rules for Writing a Compelling Story