In this week's new Writing Excuses episode, Build an Entire World? Are You Crazy?, we address those of you who who start writing the story before you finish building your world. Letting the story drive the worldbuilding can often be more efficient.

Last week, in Tor.com’s continuing reread posts for Words of Radiance, we saw science in action on ( Read more... )

In this week's new Writing Excuses episode, Q&A on Beginnings, we answer some of your questions on the matter. Here are some of the questions:

• What are there differences between the beginnings in different forms?
• How do you begin in media res when you’re not writing action?
• What’s the biggest mistake that can be made when plotting the beginning?
• I ( Read more... )

Greetings from Taiwan! I will be attending the Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE) this week. I'll have more information on my exhibition schedule later this week. Watch this space for details. For those who want to attend, here's address ( Read more... )