Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler – What’s the difference between an ensemble story, and a story the has a lot of characters in it? Zoraida Cordova joins us for this episode,

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson, and Megan Lloyd – Megan Lloyd returns to the podcast to talk us through the process of creating something in a collaborative environment, whether it’s a pair of authors working together,

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson, with special guest Jody Lynn Nye – So, you’ve decided you want something to be funny. How do you go about making that happen? Jody Lynn Nye joined Dan and Brandon at LTUE, and pitched this topic to them. –

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson, and Gama Martinez – Did you know that there are some famous intellectual properties which have entered the public domain, and which you can therefore use to create your own stories? It’s true!

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler – Thus far we’ve attempted to organize our discussion of sub-, micro-, and other alternative structures  with specific categories,

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler – You probably already know what footnotes are¹, but have you ever seen a story told through the footnotes²?  It’s similar to the story-within-a-story structure,

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler – Guest host Peng Shepherd leads our discussion of “order-less reading order” (after we get past the business of “having too much fun with the episode title”).

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler – Our exploration of sub- and micro-structures continues with guest host Peng Shepherd. This week we’re talking about how a story can be structured around a “thing.

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler – One common structure—both macro and micro—is the “story within a story,” or “framing story” structure, and yet somehow we’ve never really explored it on Writing Excuses.