Podcast Episodes

The Journey from Ideas to Anarchy with Cadwell Turnbull

Season 21 Episode 22

"You want to preserve your experience of the work. You want to preserve the doing of the art." ~Cadwell Turnbull

Amazing author Cadwell Turnbull join…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

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[ISBW] NaNoWriMo Ghosts with Valerie Valdes

Season 21 Episode 21

"Anytime someone starts a sentence with, 'why don't you just,' immediately stop listening to them." ~Valerie Valdes (Lia Amador)

While it hasn't been…

10 months, 1 week ago

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NaNoWriMo Rerun Day 0 (2023)

Season 21

I'm going over some daily episodes from the past this month! Get the whole 2025 NaNoReRun over at Patreon free for all followers! 

 

 

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10 months, 1 week ago

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[ISBW] Exploring Romance and Reality in Writing with Valerie Valdes

Season 21 Episode 19

"You should be writing, because that's the only thing that ultimately you can have even a hope of controlling." ~Valerie Valdes

Welcome back to the t…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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[ISBW] Embracing the Imposter: Battling Doubts in Writing and Life

Season 21 Episode 20

"If you're writing your stories down, you're more than a writer than a lot of people ever will have the courage to try to be."

It's a solo episode! I…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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Nostalgia and Climate Fic with Tim Chawaga

Season 21 Episode 18

[Worldcon] was my first convention where I went to panels, gave a reading, and had a big party. It made my sweet little book feel like the huge thing…

10 months, 3 weeks ago

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Chinaza Bado and Moving From Romance to Epic Fantasy

Season 21 Episode 17

Even writing badly will get you to writing well eventually. - Chinaza Bado

S21 Ep17

In this episode, we sit down with Chinaza Bado, author of Birth o…

10 months, 4 weeks ago

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The Sweet Spot of Horror and Desire with Sarah Gailey

Season 21 Episode 15

Content warning: since Spread Me is erotic horror, this episode has an explicit tag.

I wrote it to have fun because I have written a lot of books tha…

1 year ago

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[ISBW] Happy 20th ISBW! With James Patrick Kelly at Worldcon

Season 21 Episode 16

You have to celebrate your friends who are more successful than you. ~Jim Kelly

In this special 20th anniversary episode of I Should Be Writing, reco…

1 year ago

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Chasing Monsters: A Journey Through Hampton Heights

Season 21 Episode 14

I think I was a very... particular kind of undergraduate workshop student. -Dan Kois

In this episode, I welcome my old classmate from UNC, Dan Kois, …

1 year ago

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