All Things To All People
Originally published on substack 16 jun 2023 Recently I came to the rather trite realisation that writing a novel is hard. Even more recently, the realisation that editing one is also hard. I am about a third of the way into edits…
In my earlier years, on tumblr, I posted and reblogged a lot of stupid stuff. I no longer remember all of it but I’m pretty sure I at some point said or implied that certain types of fiction could do harm. I…
Your poem isn’t content. Your short story isn’t content. Your book isn’t content. Your art isn’t content. Your music is not content. Your life isn’t content. You are not content. Your photographs are not content. Your holiday is not content. Your wedding…
(First published on Substack on 15 may 2023) I am semi-jokingly known as the ‘cannibalism guy’ among my friends. I know a worrying amount about cannibalism, fictional and real, and have a published short story about eroticised ritual cannibalism (For This Divinity,…
(Originally published on my substack 12 may 2023) All writers have things they are better at and things they are worse at. My own skills lie in describing really awful things and, I’m told, in dialogue. I am not good at titling…
James McPherson joins us to examine how disability is portrayed in works like Fury Road, Game of Thrones and Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.
R.S. Benedict Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. I’m R.S. Benedict. In this episode, we’re talking about physical disabilities. How do we portray them in fiction? How should we portray them? What are we doing right? What…
A transcript of our latest episode, Toothless Vampires, about how much better it is when monsters are monstrous.
We have nice vampires who don’t kill, sad ghosts, succubi who don’t fuck. But we like it when monsters are monstrous.
The Eat Gud transcript of our episode with Karlo Yeager Rodriguez of Podside Picnic. Please enjoy, will you?