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Archive Seasons 11-13, Guest, Live Audience, Season 13, Theory and Technique

13.28: What Writers Get Wrong, with Wildstyle

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At GenCon Indy 2017 we were joined by Wildstyle (@MrWildstyle on Twitter), who wears many hats, and many of the hats he wears are donned in service of producing hip-hop.

One of the most interesting revelations (especially for Howard, whose background in audio engineering predates MP3 technology by half a decade) was just how many hats there are. The role of producer in the hip-hop scene may include the roles of audio engineer, composer, and and even musician.

Liner Notes: For a deeper look at Wildstyle’s work, search Soundcloud for “Wildstyle DaProducer.” He’s been producing for a year since this episode was recorded.

 

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Watch the James Brown bio-pic, Get On Up, starring Chadwick Boseman. Listen to some hip-hop music.

“Eastern Conference,” by Pope Adrian Blessed, Ares, and Wildstyle (link will autoplay at Soundcloud. Lyrics are flagged as [explicit])

Archive Seasons 11-13, Guest, Live Audience, Season 13

13.24: What Writers Get Wrong, with Piper, Aliette, and Wesley, with special guest Ken Liu

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Your Hosts: Piper Drake, Aliette de Bodard, and Wesley Chu, with special guest Ken Liu

Our hosts for this episode are experts in a great many different things. One thing that they have in common is that they’re all members of the Asian Disapora, and in this episode we’ll learn what kinds of things writers get wrong when writing Asian Diaspora elements, and how we as writers can learn to get those things right.

Credits: This episode was recorded by Bert Grimm, and mastered by Alex Jackson

 

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Read China Men, by Maxine Hong Kingston

The Paper Menagerie, and Other Stories, by Ken Liu

Archive Seasons 11-13, Guest, Live Audience, Season 13, Theory and Technique

13.17: What Writers Get Wrong, with Jamahl Crouch

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Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard, with Jamahl Crouch

Jamahl Crouch (Illusmm1 on Instagram) joined us at the GenCon Indy Writers Symposium to talk about what writers get wrong about street art. Jamahl is many things, and one of those is “street artist.”

Jamahl Crouch, pen on sketchbook, GenCon Indy 2017

We discuss the differences between graffiti and street art, where things like commissioned murals fit into the scene, and how the societal pressures (read: “it’s not legal to paint on this wall”) affect the form.

 

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Go watch The Get Down (available on Netflix)

Have a look at Jamal’s art on Instagram! Illusmm1

Archive Seasons 11-13, Guest, Live Audience, Season 13, Theory and Technique

13.15: What Writers Get Wrong, with Mike Stop Continues

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Recorded live at WXR 2017.

Your Hosts: Dan, Mary, Aliette, and Howard, with special guest Mike Stop Continues

Mike has multiple areas of expertise, but for this episode he’s talking to us specifically about the things that writers get wrong about being a gay man.

Credits: This episode was recorded live by Bert Grimm, and mastered by Andrew Jackson.

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Change the sexual identity of a character in a scene of yours.

Underworld, by Mike Stop Continues

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13.7: What Writers Get Wrong, with Lou Perry

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Your Hosts: Brandon, Mary, Dan, and Howard

Lou Perry joined us in front of a live audience at GenCon Indy to talk about law and courtrooms, and what writers get wrong when setting their stories amid legal procedures.

 

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Select a Supreme Court opinion. Read it, and then read the dissent.

Ghouljaw and Other Stories, by Clint Smith

Archive Seasons 11-13, Guest, Live Audience, Season 12, Theory and Technique

12.51: Constructed Languages, with Dirk Elzinga

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Your Hosts: Howard, Mary, Dan, with guest host Beth Meacham

Dirk Elzinga, an associate professor of linguistics, joined us live at LTUE to talk about constructed languages, and how we, as writers, might go about constructing them for our work.

Liner Notes: The big stack of notes from Dirk required its own page. Below are links to specific tools mentioned during the episode.

Credits: This episode was recorded live at LTUE by Dan Dan the Audioman Thompson and mastered beneath a pyramid of stone tablet encyclopedias by Alex Jackson.

 

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Come up to with a non-combat, non-warfare metaphor to talk about a debate.

Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin

Archive Seasons 11-13, Career and Lifestyle, Guest, Live Audience, Season 12, Theory and Technique

12.47: Screenwriting and the Writers Room, with JD Payne

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Screenwriter JD Payne joined us before a live audience at LTUE to talk about writing for the screen, specifically regarding doing this work with others in a room full of writers.

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Give a character description using only visual cues in 20 words or less

Boilerplate by Paul Guinan and Anina Bennett

Archive Seasons 11-13, Career and Lifestyle, Guest, Live Audience, Season 12

12.35: Short Fiction Markets, with Spencer Ellsworth and guest host Beth Meacham

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Your Hosts: Mary, Dan, and Howard, with guest host Beth Meacham

Spencer Ellsworth and Beth Meacham joined us before a live audience at LTUE 2017 for a discussion of short fiction markets, which ones we love, and why.

Credits: this episode was recorded live at LTUE 2017 Dan Dan the Audioman Thompson, and mastered by Alex Jackson

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Dream up a story worthy of an epic page count, and try to write it in 4000 words

A Red Peace, by Spencer Ellsworth,