Writing Excuses
Episodes
17.36: Space for Everyone
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Cady Coleman Chemist, USAF Colonel, and NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman joins us to talk about actual tra...
17.35: Nuances of Dialog
28 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maurice Broaddus, and Howard Tayler We wrap up our eight-episode dialog master class with a discussion ...
17.34: Developing Subtext
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maurice Broaddus, and Howard Tayler We begin this episode with a quick exploration of the terminology, ...
17.33: Building Tension
14 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maurice Broaddus, and Howard Tayler Tension! In this episode we discuss the ways dialog can build and/o...
17.32: Everything is About Conflict
07 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maurice Broaddus, and Howard Tayler Everything is about conflict? Really? Well, yes. Maybe not in the a...
17.31: Everyone Has an Agenda
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maurice Broaddus, and Howard Tayler We've mentioned "area of intention" earlier in this dia...
17.30: Know Your Characters
24 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maurice Broaddus, and Howard Tayler How well do you know your characters? Sure, you might know their ag...
17.29: The Job of Dialogue
17 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maurice Broaddus, and Howard Tayler We're back with Maurice Broaddus for the second in our eight-epis...
17.28: Keys to Writing Dialog
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Maurice Broaddus, and Howard Tayler Writer, teacher, and community organizer Maurice Broaddus joins us fo...
17.27: Ensembles Behind the Scenes
03 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler In this, our final "ensemble masterclass" episode, we discuss the n...
17.26: Hanging Separately
26 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler Our episode title comes to us across two and a half centuries: "We must...
17.25: Archetypes, Ensembles, and Expectations
19 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler We've talked about making every member of the ensemble meaningful. In t...
17.24: Ensembles and Genre
12 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler This week we're talking about how our genre choice influences the struc...
17.23: Are We Stronger Together?
05 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler Sometimes we have to look at our ensemble of characters and ask ourselves w...
17.22: Establishing the Ensemble
29 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler Every character in your ensemble needs to matter to the team, or they proba...
17.21: Casting Your Story With Character Voice
22 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler Every member of your ensemble has a reason to be there, but they also have ...
17.20: Basics of Ensemble Characterization
15 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Zoraida Cordova, Kaela Rivera, and Howard Tayler What's the difference between an ensemble story, and a story the has a lot...
17.19: Working in a Collaborative Environment
08 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson, and Megan Lloyd Megan Lloyd returns to the podcast to talk us through the process of creating something in ...
17.18: How to be Funny, with Jody Lynn Nye
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells and Brandon Sanderson, with special guest Jody Lynn Nye So, you've decided you want something to be funny. How do you go ab...
17.17: Writing in the Public Domain
24 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Brandon Sanderson, and Gama Martinez Did you know that there are some famous intellectual properties which have entered the pub...
17.16: Miscellaneous Structures
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler Thus far we've attempted to organize our discussion of sub-, micro-,...
17.15: Storytelling in the Footnotes
10 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler You probably already know what footnotes are¹, but have you ever seen a...
17.14: Structuring for Disordered or Order-less Reading Order
03 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler Guest host Peng Shepherd leads our discussion of "order-less reading...
17.13: Structuring Around a Thing
27 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler Our exploration of sub- and micro-structures continues with guest host P...
17.12: Structuring a Story Within a Story
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler One common structure—both macro and micro—is the "story within a...
17.11: Structuring with Multiple Timelines
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler Guest host Peng Shepherd continues to lead our exploration of sub- and m...
17.10: Structuring with Multiple POVs
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler In our second micro-structure episode, Peng Shepherd leads us into an ex...
17.9: Let’s Talk About Structure
27 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Peng Shepherd, and Howard Tayler We're beginning another eight-episode deep-dive series, and this tim...
17.8: The Alchemy of Creativity
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd How do you translate things from the spark of inspiration into a work that...
17.7: Dissecting Influence
13 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd What are your influences? What pieces of art, music, literature, or other ...
17.6: Hitting Reset Without Getting Hit Back
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd Oh no! You're in the middle of a thing (a novel, a series, a career) a...
17.5: The Promise of the Brand
30 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd Your brand—your name, the cover art for your book, and even the typeface...
17.4: The Gun on the Mantel is Actually a Fish
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd In the previous episode we discussed how to ensure that your surprise feel...
17.3: Chekov’s Surprising Yet Inevitable Inverted Gun
16 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd This week we're talking about giving inevitability to our intended sur...
17.2: It Was a Promise of Three Parts
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd The title of this episode comes to us from the first paragraph of The Name...
17.1: Genre and Media are Promises
02 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd The genre of your story is making promises to the reader, and the medium u...
16.52: Structure is a Promise
26 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd The structure you're using for your story isn't just helping you o...
16.51: Promises are a Structure
19 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard Tayler, Kaela Rivera, Sandra Tayler, and Megan Lloyd Our next 8-episode intensive is all about promises and expectations. Our guest...
16.50: Worldbuilding Finale: Making Deliberate Choices
12 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler Here at the end of our 8-episode intensive series on Worldbuilding we disc...
16.49: Magic and Technology: Two Sides of the Same Coin
05 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler Magic and technology are tools that we, as writers, use to tell interestin...
16.48: Believable Worlds Part 2: Creating Texture
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler As we do our worldbuilding with similarity, specificity, and selective dep...
16.47: Believable Worlds Part 1: The Illusion of Real
21 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler Writers are illusionists, and worldbuilding requires no small mastery of t...
16.46: World and Plot: The Only Constant is Change
14 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler In our world, the ostensibly "real" one (simulation theory notwith...
16.45: World and Character Part 2: Moral Frame
07 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler Let's follow up on character biases with an exploration of moral frame...
16.44: World and Character Part 1: All Your Characters Are Biased
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler The world of your book is most often shown to us through the eyes of the c...
16.43: The Narrative Holy Trinity of World, Character, and Plot, with Fonda Lee
24 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Fonda Lee, Mary Robinette Kowal, and Howard Tayler We're beginning another master class, another deep dive series of episod...
16.42: M.I.C.E. Quotient, After the Fact
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
16.41: Middles and Conflicts with M.I.C.E. Structure
10 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, C.L. Polk, Charlotte Forfieh, and Mary Robinette Kowal With the M.I.C.E. elements (Milieu, Inquiry, Character, and Event) ex...
16.40: Nesting Threads in the M.I.C.E. Quotient
03 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, C.L. Polk, Charlotte Forfieh, and Mary Robinette Kowal Now that we've drilled down into each of the M.I.C.E. elements (M...
16.39: Deep Dive into “Event”
26 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, C.L. Polk, Charlotte Forfieh, and Mary Robinette Kowal Our fifth M.I.C.E. Quotient episode focuses on the “Event” elemen...
16.38: Deep Dive into “Character”
19 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, C.L. Polk, Charlotte Forfieh, and Mary Robinette Kowal Our fourth M.I.C.E. Quotient episode explores the “Character” ele...
16.37: Deep Dive Into “Inquiry”
12 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, C.L. Polk, Charlotte Forfieh, and Mary Robinette Kowal Our third M.I.C.E. Quotient episode asks about the "Inquiry" ...
16.36: Deep Dive into “Milieu”
05 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, C.L. Polk, Charlotte Forfieh, and Mary Robinette Kowal The M.I.C.E. Quotient is an organizational tool which categorizes story ...
16.35: What is the M.I.C.E. Quotient?
29 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, C.L. Polk, Charlotte Forfieh, and Mary Robinette Kowal The next eight episodes are a deep dive into the M.I.C.E. Quotient, so w...
16.34: Novels Are Layer Cakes
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler Novels deliver a lot of information, and it's helpful to consider th...
16.33: Tell, Don’t Show
15 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler Few pieces of writing advice get repeated as much as that old saw "s...
16.32: First Page Fundamentals—THE KILLING FLOOR, by Lee Childs
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler In this episode we explore the first page of The Killing Floor, by Lee ...
16.31: First Page Fundamentals—MOBY DICK
01 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler In this episode we explore the first page of Moby Dick, by Herman Melvi...
16.30: First Page Fundamentals—THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler In this episode we explore the first page of The Haunting of Hill House...
16.29: Building Trust
18 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler How do we build trust with our readers? What does that even mean? In thi...
16.28: Common First-Page Mistakes
11 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler Let's have a frank, and possibly painful discussion about the ways i...
16.27: Nobody Wants to Read a Book
04 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: DongWon Song, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler Our controversial episode title comes to us via John Schwarzwelder, and ...
16.26: Working With Teams
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler Our series of game writing episodes draws to a close ...
16.25: Breaking Into Game Writing
20 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler So, after all this talk about designing games and wri...
16.24: Worldbuilding for Games
13 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler Worldbuilding is one of our favorite topics, and it&#...
BONUS EPISODE! 2021 WXR Early-Bird Announcement
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dongwon, and Dan What's this bonus episode thing? Well, for starters IT'S URGENT, because as of this writing you...
16.23: Rules and Mechanics
06 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler Let's talk about how players interact with the mec...
16.22: Scenes and Set Pieces
30 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, Cassandra Khaw, Dan Wells, James L. Sutter, and Howard Tayler Let's have a discussion about scenes and set piece...
16.21: Player Characters
23 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 her...
16.20: Branching Narratives
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette Kowal, James L. Sutter, Dan Wells, Cassandra Khaw, and Howard Tayler How do you give players meaningful choices while still...
16.19: Intro to Roleplaying Games
09 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
16.18: Poetry and the Fantastic
02 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard For the last seven episodes we've explored language, meaning, and their overlap with that thing...
16.17: The Time To Rhyme
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard Rhyming is powerful. It can signal a form, or telegraph whimsy. It can be predictable, surprising, ...
16.16: Poetic Structure: Part II
18 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard How does a poem happen? Absent an external structure, what makes a thing a poem? The key word in th...
16.15: Poetic Structure, Part I
11 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard Rigorous structure in poetic form is commonly pointed at when we declare Poems have meters and rhym...
16.14: Poetic Language
04 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard We might begin with description. Or we might begin by deconstructing the act of describing. Wait. No...
16.13: Day Brain vs. Night Brain
28 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard Patterns in the way we're speaking may betray which 'brain' we're using; often boun...
16.12 : Singing Versus Speaking
21 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard Can you hear your writing sing, being intoned instead of read? With the dialogs as tunes whose tags ...
16.11: What is Poetry?
14 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard This is how we begin our master class on poetry, with Amal El-Mohtar: With not one question, but two...
16.10: Paying it Forward, with Kevin J. Anderson
07 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard, with special guest Kevin J. Anderson Kevin J. Anderson joins us to talk about how others have helpe...
16.9: Crossing The Revenue Streams
28 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, and Howard How many different ways can our writing earn money for us? What additional work, besides "just" wri...
16.8: Smart Promotion
21 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, and Howard Let's talk about how promote yourself and your work, and how to do it well. The tools we use for this c...
16.7: To Series, or Not to Series
14 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, Howard Let's look a the business considerations of whether that thing you're writing is a standalone story, or...
16.6: Building Your Brand
07 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Brandon, and Howard Branding, in marketing terms for writers, is the process of establishing a recognizable identity—a brand—...
16.5: Pros and Contracts
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Brandon, and Erin Here's our deep dive into the subject of contracts in the publishing business. We can only go s...
16.4: Networking
24 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Erin, Brandon, and Howard Networking is an invaluable part of any business, and the business of writing is no excepti...
16.3: Publishing Pitfalls
17 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Erin, Howard, and Brandon Erin Roberts joins us for our third installment in Brandon's business-of-writing series. In this episod...
16.02: Publishers Are Not Your Friends
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, Howard, and Brandon It sounds like a mean thing to say, but it's not a wrong thing to say. A publisher is a corpo...
16.01: Your Career is Your Business
03 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
15.52: Economy of Phrase, Being the Concentrated Concatenation of Complex Thoughts in Just a Very Few Words Which Must Fit In A Very Very Small Box, With Patrick Rothfuss
27 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, and Dan, with special guest Patrick Rothfuss Did we have too much fun applying ironic humor to the title of this e...
15.51: Feedback—When to Listen, and When to Ignore, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
20 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Howard, Mahtab, and Brandon We're often taught that the best critique group feedback is reactions to the writing, rather than ad...
15.50: Juggling Ensembles
13 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard Our listeners have asked about how we handle managing a large cast of characters. This is something we&...
15.49: Maintaining Passion for a Story, with special guest Mahtab Narsimhan
06 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Howard, Mahtab, and Brandon This episode comes from a question we're often asked: "how do you stay excited about a story you&...
15.48: Deliberate Discomfort, Part Two
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Mahtab, Howard, and Brandon We've talked about deliberately making our readers uncomfortable. In this episode we discuss writing ...
15.47: Worldbuilding Science Fiction, with Cory Doctorow
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Piper, and Howard, with Cory Doctorow Worldbuilding is something you do to some degree in everything you write. Cory Docto...
15.46: Crafting Chinese-American Characters
15 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Piper, and Tempest, with special guest Yang Yang Wang Yang Yang Wang, an author, actor, and director (among many other things) joins ...
15.45: Worldbuilding Fantasy, with Patrick Rothfuss
08 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, Mary Robinette, and Howard, with Patrick Rothfuss Pat joins us for a discussion of worldbuilding, in which we field a couple of chall...
15.44: Rebooting a Career
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Dan, DongWon, Mary Robinette, and Howard What do you do when some of the key foundations of your authorial (or otherwise creative) livelih...
15.43: Audiobook Narration, with Bruce D Richardson
25 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Mary Robinette, and Howard, with special guest Bruce D Richardson Bruce D Richardson, who is often credited as BDR, or BD Ri...
15.42: Writing The End
18 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Your Hosts: Brandon, Victoria, Dan, and Howard How do you decide what sort of event ends your story? How do you set the scale and the stakes for that ...