Mary Robinette Kowal, DongWon Song, Erin Roberts, Dan Wells, and Howard Tayler discuss writing techniques in a fast-paced format. A weekly podcast about the craft and business of writing.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 11 days 20 hours 7 minutes
episode 1: 14.01: Worldbuilding Begins! Up Front, or On the Fly?
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard - Season 14 is all about worldbuilding¹, and we're kicking it off with a discussion of when you do that bit of work. Do you handle worldbuilding before you write the story, as you write the story,
episode 2: 14.02: Geography and Biomes
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mahtab - Mahtab Narsimhan joins us this year for a dozen episodes on worldbuilding, and this week we're talking about geography and biomes. These pieces of our settings can be central to the stories we tell,
episode 3: 14.03: World of Hats
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard - Margaret Dunlap joins us during season 14 to talk about worldbuilding. In this, her first episode with us, we talk about worlds in which a monolithic culture (like, say,
episode 4: 14.04: Writing the Other—Bisexual Characters
Your Hosts: Dan, Tempest, DongWon, and TJ - This is the first of our Writing The Other episodes, in which we set out to help writers portray people who are unlike them. In this episode we're joined by T.J. Berry.
episode 5: 14.5: Viewpoint as Worldbuilding
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard - When you're defining your world for the reader, some voice in the text must speak those definitions. This episode is about how we use character voices—their dialog and their narrative view points—...
episode 6: 14.6: Fantasy and Science Fiction Races
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mahtab - Let's talk about race, sort-of. Let's talk about creating races—species of people, really—which is a critically important activity in much of our worldbuilding.
episode 7: 14.7: How Weird is Too Weird?
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard - How weird, how far outside the realm of what the reader feels to be familiar, is too weird? Where is the line beyond which the fantasy is too fantastic, the unreal too unrealistic,
episode 8: 14.8: Worldbuilding Q&A #1
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, Dan, and DongWon - We invited attendees at WXR 2018 to ask us some general worldbuilding questions. Here's what they asked: What cultural stuff do you need to know during the writing process?
episode 9: 14.9: Showing Off
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard - Let's infodump without infodumping. Let's deliver lots of exposition without sounding expository. Let's talk with the maid and the butler without having maid-and-butler dialog. -
episode 10: 14.10: Magic Systems
Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mahtab - Let's design magic systems! We talk about how we do it, and how the principles of magic system design apply to the science fiction systems we create, and vice-versa. -