Writing Excuses
Hosted by Erin Roberts and Howard Tayler and Mary Robinette Kowal and DongWon Song · Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
4.7from 1,736 ratings
- 1,013
- Episodes
- 137
- Transcribed
- 1,736
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2008
- First episode
- 24K
- YouTube views
About Writing Excuses
Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.
- Publisher
- Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
- Category
- business · fiction
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Feb 2008
- Latest episode
- 1 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
137 of 1,013 episodes have a transcript.
1 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
21.44: Why Are You Stopping? You’re Almost There!
25 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
21.43: The Not-Final Word on Endings
18 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
21.42: Deconstructing the Heroine’s Journey
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21.44: Why Are You Stopping? You’re Almost There!
Published 1 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But I first learned about it from a person who was studying astronauts on long-duration missions. And it's called, at about the three-quarter effect, the three-quarter mark, they think, I cannot do this any longer. And what's interesting is that it does not matter how long the overall duration is. […]
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- YouTube views
- 24,403
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 1,303 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 433 ratings
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- Quality
- 91
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 100
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Who hosts Writing Excuses?
Erin Roberts and Howard Tayler and Mary Robinette Kowal and DongWon Song host the show. Published by Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler.
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