Writing Excuses Transcripts

Writing Excuses 5.28: ePublishing

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:35:00 GMT

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Writing Excuses 5.28: ePublishing

From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/03/13/writing-excuses-5-28-e-publishing/

Key Points: What we're seeing is a disruption of the marketplace. The biggest question is not how you can be published -- there are lots of ways to be published. The biggest question is how to be read. Personal contact and intimate experience, one-to-one. Get in touch with your readers. Be professional, about covers, editing, and your image.
( no covers, just bits... )
[Dan] All right. Well, I think our time is up. So we're going to have a writing prompt from Tracy.
[Tracy] Indeed?
[Dan] Yes.
[Tracy] I wonder what that is?
[Dan] It's where the listeners are now going to go out and write something that you are about to tell them to write.
[Tracy] Ah. I think that you should write... something.
[Dan] And there you have it. Thanks for listening in.
[Howard] This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.
[Dan] That's my favorite writing prompt we've ever done.
[Howard] Tracy, I'm so sorry to have done that at your expense, but that joke was...

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Writing Excuses 5.12: Time Travel!

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:51:00 GMT

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Writing Excuses 5.12: Time Travel!

From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2010/12/12/writing-excuses-5-12-time-travel/

Key Points: Treat your writing professionally. Learn your own process. Don't just wish, start! Shut up and start. Be wary of collaboration. Be true to yourself, write the books you care about. Try out different ways of writing (outlining, discovery writing, etc.) early. Try new things! Pay attention to what you love, and don't worry. You can make a living writing books.
( Across the great time barrier... )
[Brandon] All right. Your writing prompt is to go forward in time and get next week's writing prompt and write a story based on it.
[Dan] Nice.
[Brandon] This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.

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Writing Excuses 5.24: Author's Responsibility to the Reader with Kevin J. Anderson

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:18:00 GMT

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Writing Excuses 5.24: Author's Responsibility to the Reader with Kevin J. Anderson

From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2011/02/13/writing-excuses-5-24-the-authors-responsibility-to-the-reader/

Key Points: It's all writing-related, but the core is words on paper. Treat it like a job, put in the time, and meet your deadlines. Be professional. Use the mathematics of productivity to be prolific. Set aside working time, and take it seriously. Readers, don't hound writers. Writers, get to work.
( Steady work times words per hour equals? )
[Howard] Do we have a writing prompt?
[Brandon] Dan! Writing prompt us.
[Howard] Oh, dear.
[Dan] Writing prompt. Okay. You're going to write a story about a world in which writers are subject to the whims of their readers on a pleasure-pain system in real time. So as readers are reading your books and enjoying them, you are happy. If they start to dislike them or if they start to get impatient, then you experience physical pain.
[Brandon] This has been Writing Excuses. You're out of excuses, now go write.

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Writing Excuses Season Three Episode 10: Do's and Don'ts of Attending Cons

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:33:00 GMT

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Writing Excuses Season Three Episode 10: Do's and Don'ts of Attending Cons

From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/08/02/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-10-the-dos-and-donts-of-attending-cons/

Key points: Don't be a booth barnacle. Beware of the fan moment! As an aspiring professional, present yourself as a professional. Know who you want to meet, and why, and respect their schedule. Have leading questions that are easy for them to answer, such as "Do you have a few minutes some time to talk?" "What panels are you on that you would recommend for an aspiring writer?" or "What are you working on now?" Don't ask "What are you looking for?" Don't be belligerent. Have a plan, and listen. Go to the publisher panels and listen. Don't carry a manuscript. Do carry a business card. Do plan to take notes. Do look for blogs. Do go to panels on writing. And mostly, quite sincerely, have fun.
( on the con floor... )
[Brandon] I think we've gone long enough. Let's go ahead and finish our writing prompt. Dan? What does the person have in their pocket?
[Dan] What does he have in his pocket?
[Brandon] It's not the one ring, that's not allowed. And it's not allowed to be nothing, either.
[Dan] It's not the one ring? He has an entire universe in his pocket.
[Brandon] Um. And it's not peace-bonded.
[Laughter]

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Writing Excuses #12: Submitting to the Editors Part 1

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:45:00 GMT

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Writing Excuses #12: Submitting to the Editors Part 1

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http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/04/27/writing-excuses-episode-12-submitting-to-editors-part-1/

Stacy Whitman, Not Howard
( Lots of little stuff )
Just before the break, someone (Dan?) said: Know the rules before you break them.

The second part of this will be in Writing Excuses #13.

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Writing Excuses #11: The Business of Writing

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:41:00 GMT

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Writing Excuses #11: The Business of Writing

from http://www.writingexcuses.com/

There will be several podcasts about the business of writing, this one is an introduction to being a business person as a writer.
( The details . . . )
Final Words: What advice do you have for someone going from artist to pro?

Talk it over with your spouse or significant other.
Chase your passion.
Learn the business. It is not just an art.

And that's #11. Next up, a real live editor joins the panel!

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