A podcast by three fantasy authors who love to overcomplicate their writing lives and want to help you do the same.
Episodes
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
Wednesday Feb 05, 2020
This week, we're joined by S.A. Chakraborty, author of the Daevabad trilogy (The City of Brass, The Kingdom of Copper and, forthcoming, The Empire of Gold) while we talk about the loooooong game: Not just recent local history, but thousands or tens of thousands of years of world history.
The transcript for this episode is available here. Throw a bouquet of roses to your local scribes!!
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
On this week's episode, we're talking politics. Yeah, yeah, we know, but we're gonna try to make it fun. Like, why does fantasy fixate so hard on monarchies, anyway??
The transcript of this episode is available here.
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Wednesday Jan 08, 2020
Listeners have sent us questions, and we spend the episode answering them, and each of these questions was juicy enough to make a whole episode out of alone. So you get to hear random morsels of joy that you would only get with a Listener Questions: about travelogue plots and caraco jackets and crownball, whatever that is.
Transcript for the episode is here. Thank you to our wonderful scribes!
Wednesday Dec 25, 2019
Wednesday Dec 25, 2019
Happy Holidays, dear listeners! This week, we're talking about worldbuilding holidays, and we giggle pretty much the entire time!
Transcript is available here. Blessings upon the heads of our wonderful scribes!
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
Wednesday Dec 11, 2019
On this week's episode, we're joined by our glamorous guest, Tasha Suri, author of EMPIRE OF SAND and REALM OF ASH to talk about worldbuilding religions!
Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
Wednesday Nov 27, 2019
We're joined this week by glamorous guest star Cass Morris, Shakespeare scholar and author of FROM UNSEEN FIRE, to talk about art and pop-culture in fantasy worldbuilding!
The transcript for this episode is here. Thank you to our excellent scribes!
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Rowenna and Alex are going a bit feral this week to talk about fiber arts! Marshall Ryan Maresca asks some good smart questions!
The transcript for this episode is available here. Huge thanks to our scribes!!!
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
On this very spooky episode of WFM, we're discussing the customs and practices surrounding death!
The transcript of this episode is available here. (HUGE THANKS to our wonderful scribes!!!)
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Wednesday Oct 16, 2019
Author RJ Theodore joins us this week to talk about worldbuilding family structures!
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
On today's episode we're finally getting around to naming some stuff, and that means we're talking about languages! Conlangs, language and culture, lots of tasty stuff!
The transcript document is here.
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