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Writers on Writing: Writing Excuses

4/28/2017

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I’ve waded through so many podcasts on writing and creativity, and Writing Excuses has risen to the top becoming one of my favorites.  This podcast does something many others have failed to do: get to the point.  Their tagline is “15 minutes long because you’re in a hurry, and we’re not that smart.” And they mean it… the first part anyway.  

They are very diligent (almost zealous) about staying on topic-- or at least their fearless(?) leader, Brandon Sanderson, is.  Perhaps the reason I like this podcast so much is Sanderson (like myself) believes the world can be explained with a proper outline and detailed bullet points.  The podcasters are very conscious of their position as teachers as well as writers. They may begin with abstract ideas, but then they immediately ask: ‘yeah, but how do you do that?’


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