Writing Excuses podcast

Yes, and yes. And it's entertaining, too.

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You in the right thread, Auteur?

Anyways, I've listened to all of season 1 and am on the last episode of season 2 now. So far, I've found it helpful. I do think some things they talk about in the early episodes are a bit outdated, but not enough for those episodes to be useless. I will say this, though: You have to have a strong tolerance for affluent, white, Christian, male privilege because those guys exude it. I haven't listened to the newer seasons yet (I like to follow chronological order because I'm a bit OCD), so I can't compare the old episodes with the new.

Yeah, I hated it when they 'disclosed' they were on a cruise with an (affluent) audience joining them (for a fee I likely can't afford, thus the hatred ^_^). But on the plus side, I really like Mary Robinette Kowal's voice. She makes an excellent audiobook narrator.

I think that her addition to the cast really helped things out, although I fell out of listening around... I forget which season. When they started guiding the writing prompts at the end of the episodes towards 'we're taking you through a writing course,' direction.

Morning Rainbow said:

You in the right thread, Auteur?

I will say this, though: You have to have a strong tolerance for affluent, white, Christian, male privilege because those guys exude it. I haven't listened to the newer seasons yet (I like to follow chronological order because I'm a bit OCD), so I can't compare the old episodes with the new.

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On this end of time, they are reasonably conscious of that. While the guys and Mary Robinette are still the backbone, they have a rotating stable of regular guest hosts from more varied backgrounds and this season they're doing a sub-series of episodes with Tempest Bradford of Writing the Other.

I've listened to every episode, every season over the past few months. I find them extremely helpful. There have been a few take-aways I have been trying to apply to my writing and have been noticing in what I read and watch. Specifically, "Yes, but; no, and," and keeping in mind the promises to the reader.

I love Writing Excuses!! I've listened to every episode (and some of the earlier seasons multiple times.) I used to do a lot of driving for my previous job and I'd just load a bunch of them up on my phone and listen to them and think about my own writing. They helped me immensely, and I probably wouldn't be where I'm at with writing right now if it wasn't for that podcast. I do agree that some of the earlier seasons aren't especially great, but around season 4 (I think) when they add Mary Robinette Kowal, it starts to get a lot better.

Side note, I got to meet Mary at a conference last year and sat two chairs away from her at dinner and silently fan-girled the whole time. She's an awesome human-being.