Writing Excuses Season 4

Brandon Sanderson, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler present a tightly-paced podcast of advice for writers. This CD is the fourth complete season of MP3 episodes, each one “fifteen minutes long, because you’re in a hurry, and we’re not that smart.”

Episode 1: Types of Humor
Episode 2: Heroism
Episode 3: How to Manage Your Influences
Episode 4: Agents. Do You Need One?
Episode 5: Roleplaying Games as Tools for Storytelling
Episode 6: Pacing with James Dashner
Episode 7: Q&A with James Dashner
Episode 8: Working with Editors
Episode 9: How to Write Men, with Jessica Day George
Episode 10: Writing for Young Adults
Episode 11: Brainstorming from Headlines
Episode 12: Writing an Epic
Episode 13: Juggling Multiple Viewpoints
Episode 14: Brainstorming Science Ideas
Episode 15: Visual Components of Storytelling
Episode 16: Breaking the Fourth Wall
Episode 17: Living with the Artist
Episode 18: How to Steal for Fun and Profit
Episode 19: Discovery Writing
Episode 20: Strategies for Getting Published
Episode 21: Writing Practical Fantasy
Episode 22: Q&A with L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Episode 23: How to Break into the Young Adult Market
Episode 24: Random Storytelling
Episode 25: Mating Plumage
Episode 26: Avoiding Stilted Dialog
Episode 27: Major Overhauls to Broken Stories
Episode 28: Brainstorming the End and Working Backwards
Episode 29: Line Editing
Episode 30: Worldbuilding the Future
Episode 31: Line Editing Dialog
Episode 32: First Paragraphs
Episode 33: Trunk Novels
Episode 34: Q&A at Dragons and Fairy Tales