Writing Excuses
Claim This Podcastby Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
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<p>Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.</p>
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2/11/2008
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Recent Episodes
May 31, 2026
21.22: The Order of the Telling
Hosts Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, Erin Roberts, and DongWon Song interview author Margaret Dunlap about crafting compelling narratives by strategically ordering story events for maximum impact.
May 24, 2026
21.21: Rhythm and Words
Hosts Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, Erin Roberts, and DongWon Song explore how the musicality of language, from sentence length to poetic meter, shapes pacing and emotional impact in storytelling.
May 17, 2026
21.20: Sequencing from Mega to Micro
Hosts Mary Robinette Kowal, Howard Tayler, Erin Roberts, and DongWon Song explore how writers strategically sequence information to shape story pacing, emotion, and clarity in this interview.
991 total episodes available with 58 transcripts
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