Writing Excuses 7.14: What ever you do…don’t write

Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. The podcast for this week is titled Why You Really Shouldn’t Write. The first reason, and I feel the best explanation for not writing, is the difficulty [...]

Writing Excuses 7.12: Writing the Omniscient Viewpoint

Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. Last week’s podcast had the audience go back to basics, which is why I decided to write it up this week along with this week’s podcast, [...]

Writing Excuses 7.9: Microcasting

Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. This week the group covered a whole bunch of questions to fit into the fifteen minutes of their Microcasting episode. I will summarize a few of [...]

Writing Excuses 7.8: The City as a Character

Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. There is an atmosphere that can be created when an author sits down and writes their city, or just setting, as if it were a character. [...]

Writing Excuses 7.7: Historical Fantasy

Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. To start off the podcast, the group decides to define the best version of, “what we know as Historical Fantasy,” and this podcast is about almost [...]

Writing Excuses 7.6: Behind the Marshmallow

Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. The podcast this week has very little to do with writing and very much to do with personal inspirations and the beginnings of the podcast. Though [...]

Writing Excuses 7.5: Sensory Writing

Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. This week’s podcast is about sensory writing, with the normal gang and a guest, Sam Sykes. To better understand the topic I suggest that my audience [...]

Writing Excuses 7.4: Brevity

Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. Today the podcast for Writing Excuses seemed out of order to me, so I wrote it haphazardly, linking the topics to each other to make better [...]

Writing Excuses 7.3: Fauna and Flora

http//itunes-support.com Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. As promised, our podcasters — Mary, Brandon, Howard and Dan — gave us more examples of what not to do if you are their listening [...]

Writing Excuses 7.2: World Building Flora and Fauna

http//itunes-support.com Editor’s Note: This post has been written by Linda K. Strahl, an editor at the Jet Fuel Review. Her full bio can be found at the end of this post. When you write a story you, as an author, want details. These fillers are what immerse the reader in the world you created. Does the [...]