19.03: Behind The Scenes with our Producer and Recording Engineer
Writing Excuses
Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
A few months ago, we were on a cruise ship in Alaska recording podcast episodes for 2024!
This live recording features a Q&A with cruise attendees, who were given the opportunity to ask questions to Marshall Carr, our audio engineer, and Emma Reynolds, our producer. In this episode, we talked about the benefits of MFA programs, astrology, and how to continue learning without being overwhelmed.
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Credits: Your hosts for this episode were Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler. It was produced by Emma Reynolds, recorded by Marshall Carr, Jr., and mastered by Alex Jackson.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Writing Excuses has been brought to you by our listeners, patrons, and friends. |
| 0:05.6 | If you would like to learn how to support this podcast, visit |
| 0:08.9 | www.patreon.com slash writing excuses. |
| 0:15.0 | Season 19 episode 3 |
| 0:20.0 | This is writing excuses |
| 0:22.0 | Behind the scenes Q&A with Emma and Marshall. |
| 0:25.0 | 15 minutes long. |
| 0:27.0 | Because you're in a hurry. |
| 0:28.0 | And we're not that smart. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Emma. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm Don Juan. |
| 0:32.0 | I'm Aaron. I'm Dan. And I'm Aaron I'm Dan and I'm Marshall |
| 0:34.0 | In this episode we decided to have Emma our producer and Marshall |
| 0:39.0 | Our Sound Engineer on the episode with us |
| 0:42.0 | We are still on the Running Excuses cruise and we wanted to have our |
| 0:47.2 | lovely audience ask some questions of the other podcast host but also of Emma and Marshall |
| 0:52.3 | to talk a little bit about how the |
| 0:53.7 | podcast operates behind the scenes. |
| 0:57.6 | This is a question from the discord from Vess and it's actually not a question about the |
| 1:02.4 | podcast but it will be relevant to Marshall. from Vess, and it's actually not a question about the podcast, |
| 1:02.9 | but it will be relevant to Marshall. |
| 1:05.0 | Is there value in a creative writing MFA |
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