Writing Excuses

Literary podcast PodcastWriting ExcusesThe cover art for the Writing Excuses podcastGenreWritingScience fictionFantasyHorrorCast and voicesHosted byMary Robinette KowalDan WellsBrandon SandersonHoward TaylerPublicationOriginal release02/10/2008UpdatesactiveRelatedWebsitewritingexcuses.com Writing Excuses is a podcast hosted by authors Dan Wells, Mary Robinette Kowal, Erin Roberts, DongWon Song, and author and web cartoonist Howard Tayler, and formerly also hosted by author Brandon Sanderson. Promoted as "fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart", the hosts and guests discuss different topics involved in the creation and production of genre writing and webcomics. Premise ''Writing Excuses'' website in December 2019. The show aims to cover a single writing-related topic in each podcast, in a format short enough to be listened to on a morning commute or during a lunch break. Though it is promoted as "fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart," Writing Excuses frequently runs to about 20 minutes. The single topic is discussed in a back-and-forth by the hosts. Given the authors' backgrounds in fantasy and science fiction t