A podcast by three fantasy authors who love to overcomplicate their writing lives and want to help you do the same.
Episodes
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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Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Wednesday Sep 18, 2019
Today we're talking about building magic systems into the world!
The transcript for this episode can be found here. (It's still in progress, so if you'd like to transcribe a couple minutes to help out your fellow World Builders, feel free! :D)
Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
Wednesday Sep 04, 2019
We're joined today by Jenn Lyons, author of THE RUIN OF KINGS, to talk about methods of organizing your worldbuilding! We give some cool recs for programs to use, and some of us admit to using more simple and chaotic methods of keeping everything in line.
The transcript of this episode is available here. Thank you so much to our amazing scribes who have volunteered their time to assist with this: Eunice, Kate, and C, you're amazing!!
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
Thursday Aug 22, 2019
This week we're talking big questions about people, culture, population, and technology! Let's make some civilizations!
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
Wednesday Aug 07, 2019
This week we are joined by the amazing author Fonda Lee to talk about the basics of creating civilizations for your fantasy world!
Read the transcript here!
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
Wednesday Jul 24, 2019
We're talking about building flora and fauna for the world! Come get some biomes!
Transcript available here.