20.03: Polishing Your Writing Lens

Writing Excuses

Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler

Business, Careers, Fiction

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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One of the most important tools that a writer brings to their work is their own personal lens. This is shaped by your hobbies, your job, your history, and your experiences. In this season, we're going to be looking at personal lenses as well as the narrative lens through which stories are told. We'll look at how the questions of Who, Where, When, and Why shape a story. Also, we're going to do a Deep Dive later in the year with the novel All The Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders, in which we analyze it using the lens we've been talking about. Our Sponsors: * Check out HomeServe and use my code homeserve.com/excuses for a great deal: https://www.homeserve.com * Check out Talkiatry and use my code Talkiatry.com/WX for a great deal: https://www.talkiatry.com Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/writing-excuses2130/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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1:11.1	Season 20, episode 3.
1:15.4	This is writing excuses.
1:18.0	Polishing your writing lens.
1:19.9	I'm Howard.
1:20.9	I'm Mary Robinette.
1:21.9	I'm Don Juan. I'm Dan.
1:23.5	And I'm Aaron.
1:24.8	And we're going to be looking this season at the idea that we've been talking about these toolboxes,
1:34.0	but specifically one of the most important tools that a writer brings to their work is their own personal lens.
1:39.4	You've heard us say this before, that that's the thing that makes a story interesting,
1:43.5	is you, that no one else can write your story. that that's the thing that makes a story interesting, is you, that no one else
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