Writing Excuses » Editing

An agent, an editor, and a writer walk into a Zoom room and record a podcast… but really… that’s (part of) what this episode is! First off, a reminder that your agent, your editor, and you ...

https://writingexcuses.com/19-08-nanowrimo-revision-with-ali-fisher-working-with-an-editor/

Ali Fisher, editor at Tor Books and member of the podcast Rude Tales of Magic, joins us for a three-part series on editing. First up: length! How do you edit your work—whether it’s a book or...

https://writingexcuses.com/19-06-nanowrimo-revision-with-ali-fisher-length/

So, what is publishing for, anyway? The question may seem glib, but DongWong Song raised it in their newsletter, and in this episode we answer (or at least refine our asking of) the question. L...

https://writingexcuses.com/18-19-what-is-publishing-for-anyway/

Your Hosts: Dan Wells, C.L. Polk, Charlotte Forfieh, and Mary Robinette Kowal Our eighth and final M.I.C.E. Quotient discussion will explore using M.I.C.E. as a diagnostic tool. So… your man...

https://writingexcuses.com/16-42-m-i-c-e-quotient-after-the-fact/

Revision: it's when you make a too-short piece longer, or a too-long piece shorter.

https://writingexcuses.com/12-28-trimming-and-expanding/

The microphones again find us aboard the Independence of the Seas*, to talk about how terribly ugly this manuscript is, and what we can do to make it pretty. In this episode we drill down on li...

https://writingexcuses.com/writing-excuses-10-46-how-do-i-make-this-pretty/

Dan and Howard are joined by Kameron Hurley, James L. Sutter, and Michael Underwood for an anything-goes Q&A at the GenCon Indy Writing Symposium. We had reached the end of our two-hour block, b...

https://writingexcuses.com/writing-excuses-10-45-qa-at-the-gencon-writing-symposium-with-kameron-hurley-james-l-sutter-and-michael-underwood/

November is “Revision” month here in the Writing Excuses Season 10 Master Class, so while many of you may be tempted by NaNoWriMo, there’s a different kind of work to be done… Delia Sher...

https://writingexcuses.com/writing-excuses-10-44-how-do-i-fix-what-is-broken/

Q&A in which we cover proofreading, writing time, career stuff, and no, you can't have any of our DNA.

https://writingexcuses.com/writing-excuses-9-33-microcasting/

The fourth of the SHADOWS BENEATH critique episodes, in which Howard is stuck...

https://writingexcuses.com/writing-excuses-9-31-critiquing-an-honest-death/