Writing Excuses 5.27: Perseverance

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:00:00 GMT

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Writing Excuses 5.27: Perseverance

From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/03/06/writing-excuses-5-27-perseverance/

Key points: Be the cockroach. Plan for the rug being yanked out from under you. Take your Scarlett O'Hara moment, and write because that's what you want to do. Never give up, never surrender. Do what you love. You've written about the hero, going back to their strengths and winning -- now live it.
( whenever a Targathian baby cries out )
[Brandon] Let's go ahead and give a writing prompt. I'll make myself do it this time because I've made everybody else do it. Let's do... you are writing a story, there is a world where someone wrote a novel about an alien invasion. One year later, that he exact alien invasion happens on Earth for undescribable reasons exactly as the novel predicted.
[Dan] Awesome.
[Brandon] That's your writing prompt. This has been Writing Excuses. A very big thank you to Sherrilyn Kenyan again for sitting in with us. You're out of excuses, now go write.

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Writing Excuses Season Four Episode 20: Strategies for Getting Published

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:40:00 GMT

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Writing Excuses Season Four Episode 20: Strategies for Getting Published

From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/05/23/writing-excuses-4-20-strategies-for-getting-published/

Key Points: Great writing and lots of it, first. Using social media to build an online following can help your career. Write, submit, write more, keep submitting.
( new media! hooray! )
[Brandon] Writing prompt. Books on the inside of your eyelids.
[Dan] Yes. Printing on human skin, for whatever reason, 1000 years in the future becomes the most economical and publicly acceptable way to publish a book.
[Brandon] This has been Writing Excuses. We had way too many tangents in this episode, so maybe you do have a few excuses. But go write anyway.
[Howard] On human skin.
[Brandon] Don't write on human skin.
[Howard] On human skin.
[Brandon] Like on Howard's.
[Howard] OK. No human skin, please.

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Writing Excuses 5.27: Perseverance

Writing Excuses Season Four Episode 20: Strategies for Getting Published