Fifteen minutes long, because you're in a hurry, and we're not that smart.

16.13: Day Brain vs. Night Brain

Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard Patterns in the way we’re speaking may betray which ‘brain’ we’re using; often bound by what’s familiar, sometimes loosed for free-er choosing. Writing like the day-brain’s thinkingSinging while the night-brain’s winkingAll the cadence going funky(golden-mantled howler monkey) Credits: This episode was recorded by Marshall…

16.12 : Singing Versus Speaking

Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard Can you hear your writing sing, being intoned instead of read? With the dialogs as tunes whose tags say “sung” instead of “said?” When the rhythm of your prose echoes the rhythm of a song you’ll see perhaps you’ve been a poet…

16.11: What is Poetry?

Your Hosts: Mary Robinette, Dan, Amal, and Howard This is how we begin our master classon poetry, with Amal El-Mohtar:With not one question, but two. What is poetry? What is prose? Yes, both questions are a trap.Or maybe two traps.But definitely a beginning. Credits: This episode was recorded by Marshall Carr,…