#creative podcast

[worldanvil]

Episode 46, part 1: Designing Fantasy Castles with Wolfgang Baur

Worldbuilding Fantasy Castles with Wolfgang Baur!❤️ 🏰 Where should your castles be on the map? 🗺️ 🏰 What does everyone forget when worldbuilding castles? 🤔 🏰 How do you STORM a fantasy castle... or defend one!? 🐉 🧙 Janet (founder and CEO of World Anvil) chats with castle fanatic and Ennie Award-winning worldbuilding expert Wolfgang Baur (Founder and CEO of Kobold Pres), digging into the foundations of castles, figuring out the turrets of their troubles, and lowering the drawbridge to reveal common mistakes!

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[brainypixel]

This week's #CreativelyChristian #Podcast highlight features storyteller and creative coach Kat Caldwell as she discusses how the Bible uses stories and her approach to writing fiction that isn't explicitly Christian.

Check below for more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XVfhxjoT_k

[darknightwolves]

May 2024: Update | Creative Writing Club

https://youtu.be/Kdk4CyzBSnw https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creativewritingclub/episodes/May-2024-Update-e2j7ah1 CWC Monthly Updates: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uQu7yQmhCsT0oVcTZKfTXJwK4uHYI7ZTcyvzBLwudhY/edit?usp=sharing Despite me still being away on a hiatus, we managed to make a small gain on both YouTube and Spotify! For YouTube, we saw a +1 subscriber gain, so I’d…

[noecantsleep]

WE ARE SO BACK

[abstractfrog]

SILVER BLAZE PART THREE - happy jonkday everyone. one of these days i'll draw a scene that doesn't take place at night

[augustyearroundprod]

It’s the end of Darling’s world, and she knows it. Actually, her world died three years ago. Darling is a survivor. But when Darling hears the call of another lonely girl over her radio, Darling has a choice. She can die in the bunker she calls home or find what she craves most — a true friend. 

Written By: Katie Rose Rogers Narrated By: Katie McGrath

Well well well the dream team is back, and magic was once again made! I don’t think I’ll ever have enough wonderful things to say about the Katies! But I shall continue to try. @katierosietoesrogers is a creative savant, a writing powerhouse, and a dream of a human being! You can count me forever as her biggest fan! And Katie McGrath, who has so healthily escaped social media… I mean what a truly remarkable actress! Everything she touches is elevated. And once again, she breathes such life into this story! I’m honored these two continue to come of this journey with us!

I can’t wait for you all to listen to HOW TO SURVIVE THE APOCALYPSE!!

[longreads]

Open to the Outlandish: A Conversation with Rebecca Renner

With the Creative Nonfiction Podcast, Brendan O’Meara takes us behind the scenes to learn more about how longform stories get made. In this excerpt, he talks to author and journalist Rebecca Renner about getting that first draft down, the importance of a strong editor, and how a story evolves from pitch to publication. 

Brendan: What you were saying a while ago, you were just urged to write, just get stuff down on the page. It’s really important to do that, because that early draft, that rough draft, or maybe the zero draft, as Roy Peter Clark might call it, it’s terraforming the world or making the map. And there are always going to be gaps in that cartography, and you’ve got to feel like “Okay, here’s a dark spot in the map. How do we fill this in?” But sometimes you don’t know that gap is there until you start and it reveals what else you need to do. Unless you have—for lack of a better term—the courage to start and write before you’re ready, that stuff has a tendency to always be in the shadows, and you need to write your way through it.

Rebecca: I’ve actually been reading The Creative Act by Rick Rubin. And I feel like some people think that book is a little woo woo. I did when I first started reading it, but I really like how he talks about being open to the possibilities of the creative act and the potential there, being able to get into the flow state and stopping yourself from self-criticism and over-analyzing, getting yourself to open up. That has been one of the most important things to do in my creative process because I have to remind myself that I have all the things I need; it’s all there. And then I don’t have to keep going out and getting more details or over-report things, which I have a problem doing, or even in fiction that I just have to believe that I have the story and that I have to get it down. Then I’ll see the lacunae.

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[thefandomentals]

Guest writer Gena begins a deep dive into Moonward by chatting with the @midstpodcast trio about creative collaboration, new mediums for character exploration, and the "Whoa Dude" of it all.

[cyberpunk-lesbians]

it’s about to be 4:20am on my 25th birthday

fun fact, I am an aries sun, moon, and rising

other fun facts about me: I’ve hiked 100 miles of yellowstone and I have a chemical engineering bs from Georgia Tech but don’t use it for work at all

follow me if you like this blog/podcast idea? please? I’m so cool and befriendable and we’re going to make a discord once we hit 50 followers 👉👈

[filthytheodeckerkinnie]

Arthur Lester gets penetrated AGAIN??? (not clickbait)

[worldanvil]

Fantasy Worldbuilding: Inverting the Tropes with Amanda Hamon & Gail Carriger

Welcome to a special Bonus Season! Enjoy these sessions from this year's Worldbuilding Con! 

No genre is more closely associated with Worldbuilding than fantasy. Unfortunately, this can create a temptation to “play the hits,” following established tropes at the cost of innovation. In this session, we’ll discuss how to subvert audience expectations and deliver a fantasy world that’s both satisfying and surprising. Join Janet and Worldbuilding Con guests Gail Carriger and Amanda Hamon as they discuss fantasy worldbuilding: 

What is a trope?

What is your favorite or most hated fantasy trope? 

What are the benefits of subverting or inverting a trope? 

What are the drawbacks of subverting or inverting a trope?

How can we identify and handle problematic tropes?

How can you deliver a surprising yet satisfying fantasy world?

When does a trope become a cliche?

Final advice

🎙️Speakers:

Gail Carriger has multiple NYT bestsellers and millions of books in print in dozens of different languages. She writes book hugs - comedies of manners mixed with urban fantasy (and sexy queer joy as GL Carriger). She is best known for the Parasol Protectorate and Finishing School series. She was once an archaeologist and is fond of shoes, octopuses, and tea.

Amanda Hamon is a Senior Designer leading the production of Dungeons & Dragons books for Wizards of the Coast. An award-winning tabletop game designer, developer, writer, and editor, her work has appeared in dozens of releases from numerous publishers, including Wizards of the Coast, Paizo, and Kobold Press, and across many game systems, including D&D, Pathfinder, and Starfinder. The most recent title Amanda led is Wizards of the Coast’s Keys from the Golden Vault, an anthology of D&D heist adventures that released in February. She is the former Editorial Director for Kobold Press as well as the former managing developer and a co-creator of the Starfinder RPG by Paizo. She has appeared at dozens of events and on streams as a Game Master and player, and her weirdness knows no parallel. Amanda is absolutely not three opossums in a trench coat, though you can find her making screeching noises on Twitter at @amandahamon.

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[brainypixel]

This week's #CreativelyChristian #Podcast highlight features Susan Vandenheuvel, author, founder of She Rises Minnesota, and host of She Connects podcast, to discuss success, dreaming, and living out our creative callings.

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[darknightwolves]

February 2024: Update | Creative Writing Club

https://youtu.be/tAQElCDuIng https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creativewritingclub/episodes/February-2024-Update-e2fafi5 3 hours ago I woke up from a 14-hour-long snap and, to my surprise, messages from two different people asking how I am. 1 was my dad just doing a regular old check-up, nothing major, but the other was from my boyfriend who was, understandably, much more worried. After…

[worldgonewrongpod]

Coming tomorrow, World Gone Wrong episode 204: Do the Fair Folk need 401ks?

[augustyearroundprod]

(UN)LIKEMINDED presents “POTHEAD”

To some people, Louise is too much. She feels too much. She thinks too much. She loves too much. And when her heart is broken, she will do way too much to get back the man who left her.

Written By: Katie Rose Rogers

Narrated By: Katie McGrath

The dream team has done it again! @katierosietoesrogers and Katie McGrath always come together to create such beautiful works of art, and we’re beyond lucky to have them in the (Un)Likeminded family! I continue to be blown away by everything Katie Rogers writes— truly don’t know how so much talent can live in one human. And Katie McGrath’s voice is so soothing and powerful, bringing it all to life in such an incredible way! I’m so excited for you all to listen!! Links in comments!

[selinko]

Born Archivist John AU - Memes

All these are based on the amazing TMA fanfiction Child of Illumination: Born Archivist John AU by @sieveyourtea! Check it out here!

Spoilers for up to chapter 20 of Blood of the Covenant

Enjoy!