Because trope documentation can be hilarious from the writer's end of things too.
- From the Horror podcast: "Today's Writing Excuses is brought to you by: Pants. Pants: You Put Them On Your Legs.""Uh, put - put them all the way up!"
"Pants: Put Them Back On, Please." - "Fifteen seconds long, because you're really in a hurry... and we are all going to die."
- "Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry... and we're apparently all high."
- "Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry... and we are going to Hell...or some polytheistic Hell.."
- "Fifteen minutes long, because we're in a hurry... and you're not that smart" from Offending Your Readers
- "Nuke the Blue Monkeys" as a band name, from the same episode.
- Howard Taylor describes how to research speech patterns for younger characters...Brandon: ...You're following around little kids?Brandon: That's EVEN WORSE!Howard: I am not on that list!Brandon: ...YET.
- "Furry fanfiction by Mary Robinette Koala"
- "These marshmallows are delicious!"
- Season 2, Episode 26. Guest host Nancy Fulda casually insults self-publishing not realizing that Howard self-publishes the Schlock Mercenary collections. Howard's sad response "I'm self-published" is hilarious.
- Season 4, Episode 14. "And when the universe's supply of lithium is depleted, an ADHD Cthulhu appears and is VERY distracted."
- The season 5 bonus episode on Flash Fiction is this, in it's entirety. The entire transcript is below:Brandon:This is Writing Excuses, season 5, flash fiction!
Howard: Fifteen seconds long, because you're in a hurry-
Dan: -And we're not that smart!
Brandon: I'm Brandon!
Dan: I'm Dan!
Howard: I'm Howard!
Dan: Be really fast!
Brandon: You're out of excuses, now go write! - The entirety of of the Season 7 episode called "Writing Excuses." It consists of everyone staying completely in-character and discussing ways to put off writing a book, then they have to cut to a commercial after it gets out of hand (with some {{corpsing) along with a discourse on how all the best sci-fi and fantasy authors have beards and how women need to be growing facial hair in order to break in. The opening says all:Brandon: I'm Brandon!
Dan: I'm Dan!
Mary: I'm Mary!
Howard: I'm Howard!
Brandon: And we're going to tell you why you shouldn't be writing!
