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Writing Prompt
Audiobook Pick-of-the-Week
- 1
- Brainstorming
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- 10 Feb 2008
- 17:14
- 2
- Blending the Familiar and the Original
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- 17 Feb 2008
- 14:44
- 3
- Killing Your Darlings
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- 24 Feb 2008
- 16:44
- 4
- Beginnings
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- 2 Mar 2008
- 15:25
- 5
- Heroes and Protagonists
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- 9 Mar 2008
- 15:45
- 6
- Flaws versus Handicaps
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- 16 Mar 2008
- 16:19
- 7
- Villains
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- 23 Mar 2008
- 14:23
- 8
- Sci-Fi
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- 30 Mar 2008
- 13:57
- 9
- Sci-Fi Sub-Genres
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- 6 Apr 2008
- 16:28
- 10
- Pacing
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- 13 Apr 2008
- 15:03
- 11
- Business of Writing
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- 21 Apr 2008
- 16:08
- 12
- Submitting to Editors, Part 1
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- 27 Apr 2008
- 15:52
- 13
- Submitting to Editors, Part 2
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- 4 May 2008
- 15:00
- 14
- Magic Systems and Their Rules
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- 12 May 2008
- 15:45
- 15
- Costs and Ramifications of Magic
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- 18 May 2008
- 15:37
- 16
- Butt In Chair, Hands On Keyboard
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- 25 May 2008
- 15:21
Write a story about something unusual stopping a novelist from finishing his or her book.
- 17
- This Sucks and I’m a Horrible Writer
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- 1 June 2008
- 15:41
Build a story off of this first line, “Barry knew his mumbling was going to get him killed someday.”
- 18
- Q&A at CONduit
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- 8 June 2008
- 17:30
- 19
- Plot Twists
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- 15 June 2008
- 15:52
- 20
- More Q&A from CONduit
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- 22 June 2008
- 18:05
- 21
- Humor
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- 30 June 2008
- 16:25
Try to write something funny in which profanity—expletives—the hardest profanity you can think of would be completely appropriate but it doesn’t happen.
- 22
- Doing Things That Are Unpopular
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- 7 July 2008
- 16:53
Write a scene from the point of view of a front line grunt in an undead army.
- 23
- Viewpoint
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- 14 July 2008
- 16:54
Write a scene in third-person limited in which your viewpoint character has a secret that he or she does not want any of the other characters in the scene to know.
- 24
- Research
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- 20 July 2008
- 17:25
Write a scene in which a character is performing an activity about which you know nothing. Go to wikipedia, read up on that activity and write the scene.
- 25
- Viewpoint and Tense, Part 2
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- 28 July 2008
- 14:52
- 26
- Horror
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- 4 Aug 2008
- 16:22
Write a descent into madness, similar to “The Rats in the Walls” and “Yellow Wallpaper” in first person point. Your writing will become gibberish or some horrible thing will happen and Brandon will scream.
- 27
- World Building: Religion
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- 10 Aug 2008
- 16:23
Develop a religion where people worship something that no one would ever worship in our world. And it can’t be silly.
- 28
- Writing for Web Comics
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- 18 Aug 2008
- 15:37
- 29
- Publishing
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- 24 Aug 2008
- 16:02
- 30
- Revision
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- 2 Sep 2008
- 16:22
- 31
- RPG and Game Writing
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- 7 Sep 2008
- 15:41
- 32
- Talking Exposition
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- 15 Sep 2008
- 18:42
- 33
- Side Characters
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- 22 Sep 2008
- 16:14
Bring a side character from the future, bring them back to the past and write a story about them.
- 34
- The Dark Knight
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- 29 Sep 2008
- 16:20
Pull out an old piece of writing from the last year or so. Pick a dialogue scene and try to take each piece of dialogue up a half of a notch, evoking a little more character. The outcome or conclusion of the dialogue scene should remain the same.
- 35
- Tone and Style
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- 6 Oct 2008
- 16:47
Take a scene and write it as Dan would write it, then write it as Brandon would write it, and then write it as Howard would write it.
- Bonus 1
- Remembering Gary Gygax
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- 9 Mar 2008
- 7:30
- Bonus 2
- Rules of Writing Excuses
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- 23 Mar 2008
- 3:03
Love love love. Great podcast!!
I am writer who lives in Australia in a rural community and these podcasts mean that I continue to be educated while isolated. Thank you. Jann