Writing Excuses

Hosted ByBrandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells & Howard Tayler

Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, and Daniel Wells discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced, 15-minute format.


All Episodes

20.02: Q&A Aboard the Writing Excuses Cruise, with Mark Oshiro and Kate McKean

This episode was recorded live at our 2024 Writing Excuses Cruise. (Did you know that we host a writing retreat on a cruise every year!?! You can learn more...

20.01: Welcome to 2025!

For our 20th season, we are focusing on your toolbox. We’re going to be thinking about tools in terms of the lenses that we use to approach a story....

19.52: End of Year Reflections: Navigating Speedbumps

Today, we’re reflecting on 2024. Individually, all of us went through a lot throughout the year—we encountered myriad speed bumps that slowed us down in different ways.. How do...

19.51: And That Was That

As the end of Season 19 approaches, we want to help you integrate what you’ve learned over the year. For December, we’ll be releasing episodes designed to help you...

19.50.5: An Interview with DIY MFA Founder Gabriela Pereira (BONUS EPISODE)

We had the pleasure of sitting down with Gabriela Pereira, founder and instigator of DIY MFA, which is the do-it-yourself alternative to a Master of Arts in Writing. Pereira...

19.50: All Systems Go

As the end of Season 19 approaches, we want to help you integrate what you’ve learned over the year. For December, we’ll be releasing episodes designed to help you...

19.49: Getting to Know You

As we wrap up our Close Reading Series, we’re shifting our focus towards helping you integrate what you’ve learned. For December, we’ll be releasing episodes designed to help you...

19.48: Beginning With A Thrill

As we wrap up our Close Reading Series, we’re shifting our focus towards helping you integrate what you’ve learned. For December, we’ll be releasing episodes designed to help you...

19.47.5: Interview with Andrew Buckley of the StoryCentric podcast (BONUS EPISODE)

What does it mean to be building a career as an author in this day and age? We talk with author and speaker Andrew Buckley about everything from author...

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