Writing Excuses » Depression http://www.writingexcuses.com Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:51:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2008-2011 Dragonsteel Entertainment howard.tayler@gmail.com (Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler) howard.tayler@gmail.com (Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler) Writing books 1440 http://www.writingexcuses.com/graphics/cover_small.jpg Writing Excuses http://www.writingexcuses.com 144 144 15 minutes long because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart. Fantasy Novelist Brandon Sanderson, science-fiction cartoonist Howard Tayler, and horror writer Daniel Wells discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced, 15-minute format. writing, books, how, to, write, Brandon, Sanderson, Howard, Tayler, Dan, Wells, Mary Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler howard.tayler@gmail.com no no Writing Excuses Season 3 Episode 19: Emotion in Fiction with John Brown http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/10/04/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-19-emotion-in-fiction-with-john-brown/ http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/10/04/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-19-emotion-in-fiction-with-john-brown/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:53:11 +0000 Writing Excuses http://www.writingexcuses.com/?p=141 John Brown joins us again, and tells us that fiction “is all about guiding an emotional response in a reader.” We begin with a discussion of depression, which John (like many of us) had to deal with. He tells us about the paths for emotional response, and how a beginning writer can end up in the depths of depression just by looking at the work of successful writers.

But working through that, especially with cognitive therapy, can provide the writer with fantastic tools for informing his or her writing. And those tools are really why you’re here. Listen closely!

Writing Prompt: Give us villainous heroes, romance, and something that evokes terror.

]]> http://www.writingexcuses.com/2009/10/04/writing-excuses-season-3-episode-19-emotion-in-fiction-with-john-brown/feed/ 30 0:15:47 John Brown joins us again, and tells us that fiction “is all about guiding an emotional response in a reader.” We begin with a discussion of depression, which John (like many of us) had to deal with. He tells us about the paths for emoti[...] John Brown joins us again, and tells us that fiction “is all about guiding an emotional response in a reader.” We begin with a discussion of depression, which John (like many of us) had to deal with. He tells us about the paths for emotional response, and how a beginning writer can end up in the depths of depression just by looking at the work of successful writers. But working through that, especially with cognitive therapy, can provide the writer with fantastic tools for informing his or her writing. And those tools are really why you’re here. Listen closely! Writing Prompt: Give us villainous heroes, romance, and something that evokes terror. Guest Brandon Sanderson, Mary Robinette Kowal, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler no no