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Back to Search14.12: Writing The Other — Latinx Representation
Season 14 Episode 12
Your Hosts: Dan Wells, Tempest Bradford, DongWon Song, and Julia Rios Julia Rios joins us to talk about writing characters who come from one of the m…
7 years ago
14.11: Magic Without Rules
Season 14 Episode 11
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard When we say "without rules" we're talking about stories whose magic is not held under logic…
7 years ago
14.10: Magic Systems
Season 14 Episode 10
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 ap…
7 years ago
14.9: Showing Off
Season 14 Episode 9
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Dan, and Howard Let's infodump without infodumping. Let's deliver lots of exposition without sounding expository…
7 years ago
14.8: Worldbuilding Q&A #1
Season 14 Episode 8
Your Hosts: Howard, Mary Robinette, Dan, and DongWon We invited attendees at WXR 2018 to ask us some general worldbuilding questions. Here's what the…
7 years, 1 month ago
14.7: How Weird is Too Weird?
Season 14 Episode 7
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?…
7 years, 1 month ago
14.6: Fantasy and Science Fiction Races
Season 14 Episode 6
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 cri…
7 years, 1 month ago
14.5: Viewpoint as Worldbuilding
Season 14 Episode 5
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 definiti…
7 years, 1 month ago
14.04: Writing the Other—Bisexual Characters
Season 14 Episode 4
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…
7 years, 2 months ago
14.03: World of Hats
Season 14 Episode 3
Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary Robinette, Margaret, and Howard Margaret Dunlap joins us during season 14 to talk about worldbuilding. In this, her first e…
7 years, 2 months ago