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Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, James L. Sutter, Dan Wells, Cassandra Khaw, and Howard Tayler. For the next eight episodes we’ll be talking about roleplaying games, and how that medium relates to writers, writing, career opportunities, and more. We’re led by JamesL.
SEASON 16 | WRITING EXCUSES 16.01: Your Career is Your Business. Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon Welcome to 2021, and Season 16 of Writing Excuses. This year we’re dividing the year into “master classes” or “intensive courses.”. We’re kicking it off with Brandon’s episodes, which are all about the business of writing, and the firstof
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Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, James L. Sutter, Dan Wells, Cassandra Khaw, and Howard Tayler. For the next eight episodes we’ll be talking about roleplaying games, and how that medium relates to writers, writing, career opportunities, and more. We’re led by JamesL.
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MARCH | 2021 | WRITING EXCUSES March 28, 2021 Howard Tayler 4 Comments. Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard. Patterns in the way we’re speaking may betray which ‘brain’ we’re using; often bound by what’s familiar, sometimes loosed for free-er choosing. Writing like the day JANUARY | 2021 | WRITING EXCUSES 16.01: Your Career is Your Business. January 3, 2021 Howard Tayler 12 Comments. Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon. Welcome to 2021, and Season 16 of Writing Excuses. This year we’re dividing the year into “master classes” or “intensive courses.”. We’re kicking it off with Brandon’s episodes, whichare all about
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MARCH | 2021 | WRITING EXCUSES March 28, 2021 Howard Tayler 4 Comments. Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard. Patterns in the way we’re speaking may betray which ‘brain’ we’re using; often bound by what’s familiar, sometimes loosed for free-er choosing. Writing like the day JANUARY | 2021 | WRITING EXCUSES 16.01: Your Career is Your Business. January 3, 2021 Howard Tayler 12 Comments. Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon. Welcome to 2021, and Season 16 of Writing Excuses. This year we’re dividing the year into “master classes” or “intensive courses.”. We’re kicking it off with Brandon’s episodes, whichare all about
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Speaking of the Twitterverse: The Writing Excuses team is BrandSanderson, MaryRobinette, HowardTayler, JohnCleaver (Dan), and MonkeySloth (Producer Jordo). Writing Prompt: Someone has to save the world from an intercontinental ballistic hairball, but their keyboard layout has been changed. WRITING EXCUSES 11.1: INTRODUCTION TO ELEMENTAL GENRE Writing Excuses 11.1: Introduction to Elemental Genre. The word “genre” has a lot of weight to it. Arguments about whether a particular work is, or is not, part of a given genre are long, and tedious. Season Eleven will not be engaging in those arguments. We’re giving all that a wide miss by adding an adjective, anddefining a new term
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_YOUR HOSTS: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Well, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler_ Let’s have a discussion about scenes and set pieces, and let’s lead with this: prose writers often create longer pieces using scenes as building blocks, and in this thing writing for game design is very,very similar.
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WXR 2021: THE WRITING EXCUSES CRUISE MASTERCLASSMay 27, 2021
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Join fellow writers for an in-depth masterclass at sea on board the Royal Caribbean’s _Liberty of the Seas_ from September 19th –26th, 2021.
Click here to register ! _Not able to make it to the WXR 2021 cruise experience? _We’ll be gathering virtually this fall as well in partnership with the Surrey International Writers Conference – click here for more info!
WHAT’S A MASTERCLASS AT SEA? For the past few years, Writing Excuses has held a workshop and retreat each year on a cruise ship – a magical mix of writing classes, workshops, and time for your own writing, all wrapped in aCaribbean vacation.
This year’s Writing Excuses Workshop and Retreat will include all of that in a smaller package than our typical cruises – it’s the beginning of a new event structure that we’ll be rolling out in full in 2022: multiple smaller events, each with a deep focus on a particular aspect of the writing craft. This new format has been in the works for a while, and this year, as the US begins its recovery from the pandemic, seems like the perfect opportunity to start. For those who prefer our large-group experiences, don’t worry–we will be having a large cruise in fall 2022. Stay tuned for more!WHAT CAN I EXPECT?
Views like this, for a start! Our cruise will stop at the following ports with opportunities for excursions: Cozumel in Mexico, Georgetown in Grand Cayman, and Falmouth in Jamaica. While on the ship, there will be an in-depth masterclass on plot and structure taught by Writing Excuses’ own DAN WELLS. He’ll teach a class on each non-port day, with each class building on the previous ones in a curriculum far more detailed and advanced than we’ve ever been able to offer before. MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL and DONGWON SONG will also be on board, hosting breakout sessions, office hours, and other group social events. HOW WILL COVID-19 AFFECT THE CRUISE EXPERIENCE? Royal Caribbean and other cruise lines are constantly updating their procedures and protocols as they get back on the water, but a few things are certain – we are asking that all students and their guests be FULLY VACCINATED. The current guidance from the CDC for cruise ships is that vaccinated passengers can go without masks in their cabins and in outdoor areas (including outdoor dining) throughout the ship – we expect that vaccinated passengers will be able to do additional activities onboard the ship without a mask by the time of sailing in line with the recently updated CDC guidance. As full protocols become available, we will send them to all registeredguests.
Royal Caribbean has been doing a lot of work to help everyone be as safe as possible – you can read more about the safety and health protocols at the Healthy Sail Center here.
HOW DOES PRICING WORK? Prices include the workshops, your cabin and meals, taxes, gratuities – pretty much everything! The tickets listed are for Double Occupancy, which means you’ll have a roommate. If you’ve chosen your own roommate, awesome! There will be a place to indicate this when you register. If you don’t have a roommate, no worries; we’ll coordinate to place you with another writer from our group. You can also pick a private, single-occupancy cabin during the registration process, but note that these cost extra. The only additional cost is if you would like to pay for a transfer to and from the airport to the cruise ship or you would like to come in a night early to a local hotel (which includes a free breakfast and transfer). Spouses and significant others or family members who would like to come along but are not writers are welcome at a discounted family rate, but they must also be fully vaccinated. I HAVE A REGISTRATION QUESTION. The best way to contact us for WXR21 questions is to send an email to writingexcusesevents@gmail.com. TELL ME MORE ABOUT WHAT TO EXPECT? The tagline on the podcast is “Fifteen minutes long, because you’re in a hurry, and we’re not that smart.” The workshop has always allowed us to take more than fifteen minutes and really dig into topics, and now we’re taking it even further. The WXR21 Cruise Masterclass will go into all aspects of plot and structure, from seven-point structure to Hollywood formula, including two sessions where the group will create and then workshop outlines for their current or future projects. More than that, though, you’ll have the opportunity to hang out with the instructors and each other folks who’ve joined us in the past will tell you that the single biggest benefit to WXR is the lasting connections we make with each other. But since you asked, there IS more: BREAKOUT SESSIONS: Participants will also be able to sign up for a limited number of additional breakout sessions or one-on-one sessions with individual instructors. There is no additional charge for these, but because of the size of the event we may not be able to accommodate everyone with their first choice. These breakout sessions include: * 6-MEMBER CRITIQUE GROUPS: Members will submit novel or short-story excerpts up to 3000 words for critique by the group as well as one of the instructors. (Please note that this means you are committing to critique the stories of the other group members.) * UNLOCKING SESSIONS: These small group sessions are places to brainstorm with a group about your writing project or process. Unlocking sessions in the past have included discussion on everything from how to make time to write to the intricacies of a specific magicsystem.
“OFFICE HOURS”: Each morning, instructors are available for individual drop-in sessions to cover those questions that come up mid-cruise. This is excellent for some one-on-one time with theinstructors!
SOCIAL TIME: From dinners together to informal hangouts to game nights to karaoke, there’s plenty of time to build your community on theship.
THAT’S A LOT OF PEOPLE-ING. I DON’T DO WELL IN GROUPS. WILL ISURVIVE THIS?
It may come as a surprise, but on a cruise of writers, most of our group are also introverts. Some of us are better at presenting as extroverts than others, but we know where you’re coming from and we feel your pain. The masterclass is a smaller group, which may make things easier, but we’ve also structured the cruise to create downtime and make it easy to meet people in smaller, more manageable groups. There are lots of quiet areas all over the ship for those in need of some time and space when it all gets too much. This is why it’s called the Writing Excuses Writing Workshop and RETREAT. We also have a Discord where we can get to know each other before the cruise – it really helps to have some familiar faces when we allshow up.
WILL I REALLY HAVE TIME TO WRITE WITH ALL THIS GOING ON? We provide time, absolutely, but it’s up to you how you use it. In years past, we’ve had some attendees write more than 40,000 words while with us. We celebrate together for words written, and provide optional prompts each day to encourage and inspire. There are also board game nights, dancing, karaoke, and impromptu combat demos to tempt us all. Some of our writers gather in places on the ship or seek out an out-of-the-way nook to write by themselves. Whatever you choose to do with your free time, your time is yours. WHAT LEVEL OF WRITING EXPERTISE SHOULD I HAVE PRIOR TO ATTENDING? “Level of expertise” is far less important than your desire to learn and improve. The schedule and classes are structured to be accessible and useful for writers with a passion for learning. We’ve found that presenting focused content that’s challenging and rewarding is more useful for writers than 101 material, regardless of where they are on their career track. But we also have “office hours,” which are drop-in one-on-one sessions available almost every morning of the cruise for those questions that pop up during thecourse of the week.
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16.21: PLAYER CHARACTERSMay 23, 2021
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_YOUR HOSTS: __Mary Robinette Kowal, James L. Sutter, Dan Wells, Cassandra Khaw, and Howard Tayler_ So, you’re the hero of your own story, and the hero gets choices, and in many ways directs the story. In our discussion of interactive fiction and writing for games, the subject of “player characters” is essential. From the array of options given at character creation/selection, to the paths available for character development and the final chapters of that characters story, “player character” touches _everything._ _CREDITS: this episode was recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson_ Podcast: Play in new window| Download
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Go through the character creation process in an RPG. Pay attention to which parts were fun, and what attracted you to the different classes, creature types, etc. Identify what makes each major character build unique and appealing. The Dark Room https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/*
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_YOUR HOSTS: __Mary Robinette Kowal, James L. Sutter, Dan Wells, Cassandra Khaw, and Howard Tayler_ How do you give players meaningful choices while still keeping the story within a reasonable set of boundaries? In this episode James and Cassandra lead us in a discussion of branching narratives, and the ways in which we as writers can create them. _CREDITS: this episode was recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson_ _LINER NOTES: Dan mentioned this collection of “Choose your own adventure” plot maps._
_Howard illustrated the concept of “narrative bumper pool” in Tracy Hickman’s _X-TREME DUNGEON MASTERYNarrative
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Write a short “choose-your-own-adventure” story. _THE PLANET MERCENARY RPG,_
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_YOUR HOSTS: __Mary Robinette Kowal, James L. Sutter, Dan Wells, Cassandra Khaw, and Howard Tayler_ For the next eight episodes we’ll be talking about roleplaying games, and how that medium relates to writers, writing, career opportunities, and more. We’re led by James L. Sutterand Cassandra Khaw
on this particular quest. In this episode we lay some groundwork, define a few terms, and hopefully get you excited about looking at games in new and usefulways.
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Spend some time playing a roleplaying game, either video game or tabletop. Take note of what’s fun and what’s not. Starfinder Tabletop RPG and StarfinderAlexa
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_YOUR HOSTS: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard_ For the last seven episodes we’ve explored language, meaning, and their overlap with that thing we mean when we use language to say“poetry.”
In this episode we step back to some origins, including, at a meta-level, the origins of this podcast as a writer-focused exploration of genre fiction—the speculative, the horrific, the science-y, and the fantastic. Because there is an overlap between language and meaning, and there are myriad overlaps among the genres we love, and as we step back we see poetry striding these spaces, its path in part defining and in part defying the various borders. Poetry, scouting the fraught borders between the kingdoms of Meaningand Language.
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_YOUR HOSTS: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard_ Rhyming is powerful. It can signal a form, or telegraph whimsy. It can be predictable, surprising, and sometimes both. It may also be seen as childish. When, then, is it time to rhyme? Will rhyming “internally” fit? As opposed to a line-ending bit. For answers, just listen. But rhymes will be missin’ Especially where they’d deliver a predictably naughty word at the end of, say, a limerick, because in this context, that would definitely be seen as childish. _CREDITS: This episode was recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson. _ Podcast: Play in new window| Download
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How does a poem happen? Absent an external structure, what makes a thing a poem? The key word in that question may be “external,” because ultimately the poem on the page will be the implicit definition of its own structure—even if it borrows a “non-poetic” structure fromanother form.
Structure is as structure does. “Unstructured” is just a way to say “I am unfamiliar with this structure,” or maybe “I don’t believe that this structure is fit for poetry.” And that might be a thing you are currently saying. After all, “blog post describing a podcast episode” is definitely astructure.
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