Writing Excuses 9.31: Critiquing “An Honest Death”

SPOILER ALERT! This is our fourth and final SHADOWS BENEATH story critique episode. This episode's story, "An Honest Death," by Howard Tayler, is available as part of the aforementioned Writing Excuses anthology, pictured there on the right, which includes the the draft we critiqued in this episode along with the final version. We still have a few of the first-printing hardcovers left, and if you purchase the hardcover, we'll send you the electronic edition at no additional charge. This week we find Howard in trouble. He is, in a word, stuck. Can our heroes help him? Can special guest Eric James Stone lend enough of his special guest expertise to complete the rescue? We start with a discussion of what was working, so that Howard doesn't accidentally "fix" something that isn't broken. Then we wade into the weeds and go hunting for the pieces he needs in order to finish the story. And when we say "the weeds," we're talking serious wandering. The episode runs a full half-hour long...