Writing Beyond the End of History
OnThere’s one thing contemporary SFF can’t seem to escape. Simon McNeil joins us to talk about writing beyond the end of history.
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This isn’t a podcast for total beginners. We’re going to assume that you know what plot structure is, what a protagonist is, where ideas come from, and how to use a semicolon. This is a podcast for people who can already write okay, but want to do better.
There’s one thing contemporary SFF can’t seem to escape. Simon McNeil joins us to talk about writing beyond the end of history.
In this episode, Blood Knife’s Kurt Schiller shares what it takes to launch a magazine, attract subscribers, and give writers a space to create thought-provoking work.
Fiction has always used speculative elements to express political ideas; but sometimes, it falls flat in terms of storytelling and politics.
Writers are often under pressure to follow rules, to write to the market, to carefully fit themselves into a safe cultural and commercial niche.
Cartoonist RE Parrish joins us to talk about the uneasy marriage of writing and the internet—incorporating the internet into fiction, using the internet as a medium for fiction, and why it’s so hard to write a good social media epistolary novel.
When you send a short story to a magazine, it probably doesn’t go directly to the editor. Instead, it ends up in what’s called the slush pile–the pool of unsolicited work waiting for review. Who reviews it? Weirdos like us.
They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but it is way easier to kill a guy with a sword than with a pen.
The changing of the guard in the early 2000s and the euthanization of the reactionary Sad Puppy movement in the early 2010s should have ushered in a new era of speculative fiction, an era of creative freedom and experimentation.
In this very serious episode, we honor the most important writer of the 20th century, a man forty years ahead of his time: author, visionary, dreamweaver plus actor, Garth Marenghi.
“Here’s my new novel, A Groan of Stone and Bone. It has enemies to lovers, a chaotic bisexual, BIPOC representation, elemental magic, and tons of ‘Buffy’ references!”