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Friends at the Table is an actual play podcast about critical worldbuilding, smart characterization, and fun interaction between good friends. Find us (and a listener guide) @Friends_Table on Twitter.
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Have you ever wondered what life would be like on a planet different from our own, or how writers create your favorite fictional worlds? Well, wonder no more because we have the facts for you! Every other week, astrophysicist/folklorist Moiya McTier explores fictional worlds by building them with a panel of expert guests, interviewing professional worldbuilders, or reviewing the merits of worlds that have already been built. You'll learn, you'll laugh, and you'll gain an appreciation for how ...
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Lorekeepers is a worldbuilding podcast about two friends chronicling the journey of an ever-expanding tapestry of interwoven lore.While other podcasts may start a new world with each episode, Carter and Frank return to Halûme each week, determined to create the deepest, grandest, and most nuanced fictional setting ever. Never forget that in an infinite world, there are always more tales to tell.
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Full Worlds

Hampus Jakobsson

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When you write a novel or build a game, you have to design a whole world. A world with culture, hierarchy, taboos, economy, fairness, traditions, careers, and origin stories. In Full Worlds, we hear authors and creators explain the worlds they built, without the story getting in the way.
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Worldbuilding Blueprints

Marie M. Mullany from Just In Time Worlds

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Worldbuilding Blueprints is brought to you by Just In Time Worlds! This podcast aims to guide you through step by step world building. Each season of the podcast will close out with a book that collects the information of the podcast as well as a series of worksheets in one easy to digest and use resource.
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Join host Ayana Zaire Cotton where they reflect on worldbuilding and interdisciplinary practice with occasional guests. "For The Worldbuilders" is presented by Seeda School which hosts a 9-week retreat helping you seed, deepen or return to an interdisciplinary practice, release a creative offer and develop a cohesive narrative through the framework of worldbuilding.
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Culture, worlds, and creativity in 301 seconds with Permanently Moved, a weekly podcast by Jay Springett. Guaranteed fresh insights in the same time it takes to listen to Teen Spirit.
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The Worldbuilder's Tavern

The Worldbuilder's Tavern

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The Worldbuilder's Tavern is a bi-weekly podcast for sci-fi and fantasy writers. The hosts (writer, makeup artist, and dungeon master Emma Maione; writer and developmental editor Allison Alexander; and marketing manager and academic Christiana Jones) break down the worldbuilding of speculative shows, movies, and books, sharing insights into how creatives can apply professional storytelling techniques to their own projects.
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Ink & Bytes

Worldbuilder

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A podcast about a diverse range of topics hosted by a writer and nerd Colby Ebaugh. We will explore things like writing tips, literary critique, gaming, cybersecurity and more in shorter more bite sized episodes then dive deep in interviews with amazing people during longer form episodes. No matter what your interests are, you are likely to find something you like here!
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World Anvil Worldbuilding Podcast

World Anvil founders Janet (writer, worldbuilder, nutcase) and Dimitris (GM, worldbuilding wizard, techmonkey)

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Are you worldbuilding for homebrew RPG campaigns, novels, game development, films or anything else? Then you're in the right place! Designed to educate, inspire and entertain, World Anvil's founders - writer & RPG designer Janet Forbes and Gamemaster and RPG designer Dimitris chat with creators and academics about the brass tacks of worldbuilding, exploring a new theme each month. Expect topics like novel writing and short stories, game design, Cultures and Societies, Settlements and their n ...
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Just In Time Worlds

Marie M. Mullany from Just In Time Worlds

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Welcome to Just in Time Worlds! I build fantasy worlds by drawing on real world history and knowledge. I share that random historical and sometimes science knowledge with you and I also suggest how you can use that knowledge in a fantasy context. This podcast is hosts audio only versions of my YouTube video channel. New episodes on Tuesday, re-upload of the old catalogue on Saturdays, until the episodes are caught up.
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Lore Together

Mystic and Sapphy

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Mystic and Sapphy are a husband-and-wife team who love knowing the background of the video game worlds they've explored over the years. In Lore Together, the two talk about what they've found out as they deep dived into some of their favorite fictional worlds.
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The Pod Called Quest

The Pod Called Quest

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The Pod Called Quest is here to bring you the best long-form actual play podcast around. Die-hard players of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game, the PCQ is dedicated to telling great stories while also fully utilizing the incredible ruleset that the Pathfinder RPG provides. All of this coupled with ardent devotion to quality audio and community engagement. So grab a drink and take a seat. For today, we quest!
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Deep beneath the soil of a dead world, there is life. Tales From The Low City is a collection of tales from a strange, bleak, and beautiful world where all creatures great and small, ambitious and content, bipedal and tripedal and quadrupedal must come together and make something like "civilisation". Created by Dom Guilfoyle. Support the show: www.patreon.com/domguilfoyle Discord: https://discord.gg/BF5Ar6pNny Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Every episode is a prayer, some prayers are answered, and a prayer granted can upend the world. Each episode, each prayer, is a single desperate moment of a life in another world. A world shaped by the divine. The voices we hear know an omnipotent being is listening. They know not all pleas are granted – but some are. And they believe in the benevolence of their god. Desperation and calculation, need and desire render each new character in vivid shades. And episode by episode, a miraculous y ...
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Worldbuilders Weekly brings you interviews with authors, artists, designers and more from the sci-fi, fantasy, and gaming community. Every episode also includes the latest news from Patrick Rothfuss' geek-powered charity: treasures from the Worldbuilders Market, trivia, nerdy tangents, and plenty of geeks-doing-good stories thanks to your incredible support! Worldbuilders works to create sustainable change for the better throughout the world in partnership with other charities and through ou ...
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Worldcasting Podcast

Worldbuilding Magazine

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Join us for some casual discussions about the craft of worldbuilding aimed at giving general advice, best practices, and support on the meta topics in the craft. If you enjoy Worldcasting, check out Worldbuilding Magazine for free-to-download worldbuilding articles, inspiration, interviews, and artwork. Worldcasting is an affiliate production of Worldbuilding Magazine.
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Game Master’s Journey is a discussion podcast for GMs and players of Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop RPGs hosted by Lex Starwalker. The show explores strategies players and GMs can use to enhance the gaming experience for everyone at the table. Lex also discusses the creation of his homebrew D&D setting, Primordia, providing a valuable worldbuilding resource for DMs creating their own setting.
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Heroes & Thieves

Heroes & Thieves

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A creative world building exercise led by brothers Michael and Greg Starks, in which they attempt to build fantasy and sci-fi worlds every week using only three words as the basis. Good, bad, and ugly ideas are all welcome here.
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The Lore Foundry

The Lore Foundry

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Two game masters continue a lunchtime tradition where they create new lore for their worlds, talk about cool new lore they find out in the wild, and other things relating to Tabletop Role Playing, Worldbuilding, and Lore in general.
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The Unified Brand, a branding podcast that touches on brand building and brand strategy to help directors, founders, owners, marketers and entrepreneurs to unlock their brand's potential so they can stand out from the competition and create impact. Discover and uncover your businesses often neglected superpower and how you can harness this and use it to create an impact in a way that delights and enriches your customers. The biggest and fastest-growing brands in the world understand branding ...
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From character backstory to worldbuilding, from GMing to playing, James D'Amato has you covered. Join James as he and his guests talk through their ultimate experiences in all facets of the TTRPG experience. Gain new tools, insights, and more from The Ultimate RPG Podcast!
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Behold Lore

BeholdRoleplay

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Join us as we do a deep dive in to the lore, history, and creation of the worlds of our persistent D&D campaigns! Join us on...• Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/beholdroleplay • YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/c/beholdroleplay • Twitter - https://twitter.com/BeholdRP •
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Ashen Snow

Christopher Rondeau

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Join Vin, Varren, Mia, and Freya on an extraordinary journey through the mysterious Missing Moment in the captivating Pathfinder 2e adventure path "Gatewalkers." Get ready for thrilling encounters, epic quests, and unimaginable discoveries. Don't miss a single moment of this thrilling show!
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SFF Addicts

Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn

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SFF Addicts is a weekly sci-fi, fantasy and writing craft podcast co-hosted by authors Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn, bringing you interviews and masterclasses with your favorite SFF authors. The full episode archive, as well as book reviews and essays, can be found at https://fanfiaddict.com. You can also subscribe to the FanFiAddict YouTube channel or follow us on Spotify, where all episodes are available in full video.
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Your one stop shop for tips and tricks to help you get better at GM'ing your own, TTRPG game. Designed for Beginners and veterans alike. Join me each week as we discuss worldbuilding, storytelling and other game management techniques. Find me on X (twitter): @GMGreg1 Come play DND with me on discord: https://discord.gg/GdQ4z56fY9 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=102070255
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Rite Gud

Kittysneezes

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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.
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What can translation and transmission of ideas and stories over time teach us about a society -- and about storytelling? Guest Ken Liu joins us to talk about the intertwining of philosophy, imagination, and translation. As writers, we can never fully translate the story that plays out in our heads onto the page, because every reader will imagine so…
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EPISODE SUMMARY James joins Rowan Zeoli to build a setting using The Ultimate RPG Worldbuilding Guide! SHOW NOTES A journalist covering the intersection of progressive thought and niche cultural movements. Her work has appeared in Polygon, Tripsitter, Autostraddle, and The Fandomentals; where she’s covered gender, psychedelics, and the largest deve…
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That's right, it's been five whole years of worldbuilding here at WBWU and this year we're taking it a bit easy with a good ol' fashioned jam session. Thank you all so much for your support, your prompts, and your patronage! Here's to five more years! And: do you have opinions about Worldbuild With Us? We'd love to hear them in our listener survey:…
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It's an Exolore x Pale Blue Pod crossover! Moiya and comedian Corinne Caputo talk about JWST's iconic first images, then pick one as the setting for their world. They imagine a planet of scaly people who love a relaxing train ride. HOSTED by Dr. Moiya McTier (@GoAstroMo), astrophysicist and folklorist GUEST Corinne Caputo is a comedian and author o…
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Go back in time to as we craft the golden age of the Clatfartburg Shopping Mall! Windowshop the vendors who most certainly went out of business before the new milennia. If you get hungry, no worries - the mall has an excent (and speedy!) food court forray for the picking. And make sure you have those traveler's checks at the ready for this week's e…
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Send us a Text Message. Join Marie in discussing how to create a cultural symbols My website: World Building | Marie Mullany Writing My Amazon Profile: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Marie-Mullany/author/B099QJMV6C Join the YouTube Channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvBH0EkwuHsQ9ryHHQNi2Q/join Referenced Videos: Using currencies in plots: ht…
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Send us a Text Message. Join the Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvBH0EkwuHsQ9ryHHQNi2Q/join My books: https://www.mariemullany.com/books Engage my world building services: https://ko-fi.com/justintimeworlds Join the Conversation: https://discord.gg/RMVagJDuqbBy Marie M. Mullany from Just In Time Worlds
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The Blair Witch Project created a whole new film genre - and co-producer Gregg Hale is with guest host Kat to talk about worldbuilding urban legends and folk horror (and dark fairytales, like his new multimedia project, Black Velvet Fairies). Take a walk on the darker side of folklore as we explore how to make a creepy setting that uses the familia…
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As a heads up, if you’re listening to this on Monday, July 29th enrollment into the Treehouse closes tonight and it’s $67 bucks to join! The Treehouse is a monthly membership holding you accountable to weekly returns to your Zone of Desire through live workshops, open studios, guided meditations and black feminist worldbuilding tools. I hope you’ll…
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In this episode, we're talking about humour, character arcs, prologues, pirate mythology, and more in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Proprietor's Pick: The Wicked Bargain by Gabe Cole Novoa Intro and outro music: "The Tavern" by Michael Ghelfi Visit the Tavern: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…
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Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Deep Worldbuilding with award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi. During the episode, Paolo delves deep into worldbuilding, laying out how to create immersive worlds, his worldbuilding process, deep vs. broad worldbuilding, keeping track of details, lived-in worlds, …
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Show Notes This week, Fiona tries her hand at building her very own setting prompt by prompt, using Angeline Trevena’s ‘30 Days of Worldbuilding: An Author’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Fictional Worlds’. Overwhelmed by creating fantasy worlds? Lost in your world? Unsure where to go next? 30 Days of Worldbuilding breaks the task into manageable …
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It's frustrating when you feel like only you understand your vision for your business. So if your team and audience don’t understand what your brand does, what's the cause? A brand narrative that's as chaotic as the last 2 seasons of Game of Thrones... Thankfully, it's that time of the week again. In today’s episode of The Unified Brand Podcast. Bu…
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In this episode of The Unified Brand Podcast, we dive deep into the world of brand design and consumer connection with Jim Pietruszynski, CEO of Soulsight. Discover how to keep your brand relevant in an ever-changing cultural landscape by leveraging empathy, authenticity, and emotional resonance. Jim shares compelling stories, including the journey…
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Episode 130 - Rescue & Recovery (Star Trek Adventures) FRONTIER SEASON 2 - CHAPTER 6 Catching up with their stricken comrades aboard the USS Nelson, the crew of the USS Tenzing must work to pick up the pieces following the disasterous flight of the Nelson through the subspace storms surrounding the star cluster. The emergency has put a damper on th…
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Subscribe: iTUNES, RSS Support Us On Patreon Discuss This Episode Email Us LINKS: My Neighbour Totoro UEFA Euro 2024 Artifexian Podcast Discord Langtime Studio Conlang Conflict Playlist Miscellaneous Myths: The Book Of Invasions (Overly Sarcastic Productions) Da Vinci Code Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Hostile Takeover Abhéskii Reference Grammar Kimhar…
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Send us a Text Message. Political fantasy is a complicated genre. Avoid these 5 common pitfalls in crafting your fantasy plots and learn how to create a compelling and realistic political world in your fantasy story. Join the Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvBH0EkwuHsQ9ryHHQNi2Q/join My books: https://www.mariemullany.com/books Engage m…
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Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they chat with bestselling co-authors Daniel Abraham & Ty Franck (AKA James S.A. Corey) about their new novel The Mercy of Gods, The Expanse series, blending genres and authorial voice, history and posthumanism, technology and humanity’s future, Babylon and intelligence, space opera and cultural refer…
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We sat down with CL Clark to talk about character—specifically, how they build different POV characters in the compressed space of a short story. We dive into plot processing (a tool CL Clark has learned from Mary Robinette!), how to specify the stakes of your world, and how to build distinct characters. Thing of the Week: Reasons Not To Worry: How…
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I don’t think there is a single place in England that I know better than those 6 feet of sand in font of a shed in Broadstairs. Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/08/10/2418-six-feet-of-england/ Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ Subscriber Zine! https://thejaymo.net/zine Pe…
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Henry just wants to see what's out in the world, fate and tragedy will conspire to get him his wish. Join us as we Lore Together! Contact us: Instagram: https://instagram.com/loretogether BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/loretogether.bsky.social Mastodon: https://universeodon.com/@LoreTogether Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/user/LoreTogetherPod Yo…
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This episode carries content warnings for mental manipulation. At the center of the galaxy, the battle rages. Outnumbered, Cori and Thisbe turn to powers divine and profane in order to turn the tide, while Levi goes toe to toe with foes ten times his size. Brnine, Hunting--along with the the crews of the Blue Channel, Starcrossed, and Stolen Cameo-…
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Every Friday, we're highlighting a panel from the TBRCon2024 all-virtual SF/F/H convention, looking back on the incredible variety of discussions that we had the honor of hosting. This week, join moderator/blogger Beth Tabler and authors Christopher Paolini, Jenn Lyons, Anthony Ryan, Ryan Cahill and ML Spencer for a TBRCon2024 panel on "Why Are Dra…
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Dive into the captivating story behind one of the world's most recognizable logos—the Nike Swoosh. Discover how a student designer's simple yet powerful creation became a global symbol of movement and empowerment. In this episode of The Unified Brand Podcast, brought to you by Elements Brand Management, we explore the origins of the Nike Swoosh and…
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Send us a Text Message. Do you want to create a world that's rife with intrigue? A story that ebbs and flows with the beats of politics? Join me and let's mine the Merovingian history for myth, lore, plot, and characters! Join the Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxvBH0EkwuHsQ9ryHHQNi2Q/join My books: https://www.mariemullany.com/books Eng…
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Join co-hosts Adrian M. Gibson and M.J. Kuhn as they delve into a mini-masterclass on Writing from the End with co-authors Julia Vee & Ken Bebelle. During the episode, Julia and Ken work back from the end, exploring endings that they love, how to plan your ending while leaving room for spontaneity, writing endings for sequels and series, managing s…
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Show Notes To tide us over til our next one-shot, here's a bonus episode where our host and GM Fiona interviews game designer Yvris Burke of Button Kin Games. Established in 2020, Button Kin Games is an independent TTRPG publisher based in Manchester and home to whimsical and strange TTRPGs with unusual themes, and a smattering of D&D 5e content. D…
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What I've been up to and where I am elsewhere on the web this summer Full Show Notes: https://www.thejaymo.net/2024/08/04/2417-summer-doings/ Solarpunk Is Dreaming Green: https://youtu.be/Xq16vAsB18Q Experience.Computer: https://experience.computer/ Worldrunning.guide: https://worldrunning.guide/ My Zine! https://thejaymo.net/zine Permanently moved…
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Today, we’re taking a higher view on the techniques we’ve been talking about over the last four episodes and focusing on how you can use our takeaways in your own writing. We’ll go over our final thoughts on C.L. Clark’s short stories (until next week’s episode, when we interview them!). We’ll also try to summarize the lessons we've learned from Cl…
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With the walls literally caving in, the Thanes make a break for safety! JOIN OUR DISCORD Check out the CAUSES WE SUPPORT to get involved and donate! Help support the show by visiting our Patreon and find even more content on our Website! Tracklist and Creative Commons Attribution Can Be Viewed HERE Intro/Outro Music “Jotunheim (Chiptune Version)” C…
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WARNING: This episode contains major spoilers for Adrian M. Gibson's Mushroom Blues. Join Adrian M. Gibson, Krystle Matar and Sara & Lilly from Fiction Fans Podcast for a spoiler-filled discussion of Adrian's debut novel Mushroom Blues. This originally aired in audio on the Fiction Fans Podcast feed. ABOUT THE BOOK: Mushroom Blues is book one in Th…
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Under the command of Levitation Cascabel-Gardner, and supported by an ad-hoc alliance with Millennium Break, the pirate crew of the Precipice, and the dedicated loyalists of exiled Apokine Cas'alear Rizah, an operation at the center of the galaxy begins. At the center: A strip of metal as long as a city and as deep as a geological straum, which pro…
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Foggy Outline presents I Need A Miracle An original audio drama produced by Wireless Theatre Season 1 begins on 29 August and continues weekly on Thursdays. Credits Our trailer features the voices of: Annette Badland David Holt Matt Boothman Music by Katharine Seaton Sound design by Sarah Buchynski Cover art by Dionysis Livanis Transcript I Need A …
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In this podcast, we tend to focus on the craft of writing: handling character, setting, theme, and so on. But there’s another side to writing, the business side. We acknowledge it but don’t talk about it a lot on this podcast, mostly because, to be perfectly honest, I’m not very good at it. I make very little money doing this. I have a day job for …
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Episode 129 - Flight Of The Nelson (Star Trek Adventures) FRONTIER SEASON 2 - CHAPTER 5 The USS Nelson, out of contact with the expedition since the Tenzing's near-miss with a subspace string, has been found - a near wreck, floating powerless in space! Their journey into the cluster was not a smooth one; their plight unknown to their colleagues. Th…
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Send us a Text Message. Today I sit down with a good friend "the real Shin Malphur,". Our backgrounds as writers shine through as we dissect the complexity of creating engaging narratives within the Destiny universe. We dive deep into our philosophy, emphasizing the importance of inclusive gameplay and the excitement of Destiny’s expansions like Th…
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In this engaging episode of The Unified Brand Podcast, we dive deep into the evolving landscape of marketing with Mitch Duckler, an expert in brand strategy and technology. Mitch, who has authored a thought-provoking book on contemporary marketing trends, shares his insights on how transparency, purpose, and emerging technologies like blockchain an…
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The Blair Witch Project created a whole new film genre - and co-producer Gregg Hale is with guest host Kat to talk about worldbuilding urban legends and folk horror (and dark fairytales, like his new multimedia project, Black Velvet Fairies). Take a walk on the darker side of folklore as we explore how to make a creepy setting that uses the familia…
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