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Today we get to talk to the inimitable Max Gladstone and Amal El-Mohtar. Amal and Max are on the podcast to tell us about how they wrote a book together (hint: they didn’t write it together in the form of one voice.) They talk to us about the practic... more

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5 days ago

As we conclude our first deep dive of our close reading series, we want to explore how the evolution of voice helped carry readers throughout "This Is How You Lose The Time War." We also talk about the relationship between character arcs and language... more

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12 days ago

What's epistolary writing? Well, it's writing through letters. But it's also a lot more than that. As we continue to dive into the concept of Voice, we want to explore the importance and power of the letters that Blue and Red write to each other thro... more

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19 days ago

On our third episode diving into Voice through the novella “This Is How You Lose The Time War,” we begin to explore the different voices that make up the two main characters in the story. Last episode we dove into Red’s voice– if you haven’t already,... more

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 1.9k ratings
  • Great info

    This is full of great discussion and information. more

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    FaderCrusader
    United States22 days ago
  • Was a favorite

    When I stumbled onto this podcast a few years ago I went and downloaded the entire back cataloge and started listening from the beginning instead of the current week. There was a point starting season 14 or so where it started to fall off. First it was one episode at a time. Eventually I learned the names of episodes to key off of and just skip "Writing the Other" was a great warning of mediocre preachy content with bad advice that started to repeat. Eventually though I found my self skippin... more

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    gidaeon
    United Statesa month ago
  • Heads up they’ve added ads

    They gave a heads up on adding ads to the eps but I had it in my head it was only going to be going forward but it’s in old and new eps, harder to binge listen to now.

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    4
    Sarena M.
    United Statesa month ago
  • Used To Be Great

    Seriously, the first seven or eight, maybe ten seasons of Writing Excuses are fantastic. Great guests, great discussions about technical topics, and a clinic of how to improve as a writer. Then something started to go off the rails. Some of the episodes are still worth while, but too many of them now wander off into political discussions or social issues. The guest list has become increasingly stale as well, with all the authors sharing the same blandly liberal views on most things.

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    Shdwmav
    United States2 months ago
  • My first & still my favorite writing podcast!

    10 out of 10! Highly recommend!

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    5
    KerrieFaye
    United States4 months ago

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