Podcast Episodes

Worldbuilding Gender Roles

Season 14 Episode 32

Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard Let's talk about worldbuilding with gender roles. Most of us have grown up with a very stro…

6 years, 7 months ago

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14.31: Cultural Setting as Conflict

Season 14 Episode 31

Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mahtab In this episode we talk about how to put characters in conflict with their setting, and how to structure…

6 years, 7 months ago

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14.30: Eating Your Way to Better Worldbuilding

Season 14 Episode 30

Your Hosts: Piper, DongWon, Amal, and Maurice We like food, and we like to talk about food. Our hosts this week talk about how this influences their …

6 years, 8 months ago

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14.29: Field Research

Season 14 Episode 29

Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard So, you're going to go someplace and learn something you can't learn in any other way. Mayb…

6 years, 8 months ago

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14.28: Warfare and Weaponry

Season 14 Episode 28

Your Hosts: Brandon, Dan, Howard, and Mahtab How do you write about warfare in your stories when you've never fought in a war? How do you describe br…

6 years, 8 months ago

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14.27: Natural Setting as Conflict

Season 14 Episode 27

Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard In this episode we stories with the "Person-vs-Setting" structure. These are stories where natur…

6 years, 8 months ago

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14.26: Lessons from Aristotle, with Rob Kimbro

Season 14 Episode 26

Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, and Dan, with special guest Rob Kimbro Rob Kimbro joins us this week to talk about Aristotle's elements of trage…

6 years, 9 months ago

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14.25: Choosing Your Agent

Season 14 Episode 25

Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, Dan, and DongWon Guest-host Dongwon Song joined us at WXR 2018 as an instructor, and gave great advice regarding …

6 years, 9 months ago

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14.24: Political Intrigue

Season 14 Episode 24

Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard Political Intrigue stories are less about "politics" (as colloquially defined by pop cultur…

6 years, 9 months ago

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14.23: Governments Large and Small

Season 14 Episode 23

Answering questions about the power structures you live within can help you with the worldbuilding of politics in the fiction you write.

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6 years, 9 months ago

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