"I want to swim in the canals on Mars," says the mysterious man in Jonny Eberle's 2014 short story, "The Observable Universe," a piece about life, death, and our place in the vast universe. The story originally appeared in Creative Colloquy Vol. 1, which you can find at creativecolloquy.com.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can find more of his writing and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music from Pixabay. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It this dispatch, Jonny lays out his evolving thinking on how to revise fiction with a simple framework—chainsaw edits vs. scalpel edits—and how it took him so long to finally accept that editing is an integral part of the writing process.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can find more of his writing and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by Coma Media from Pixabay. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Transcript: http://jweberle.com/2023/03/15/the-brutal-delicate-art-of-revision-revised/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's dispatch, Jonny explains how he went from a concept to the first draft of a novel in four months with three simple ingredients: an unpredictable sleep schedule, Google Docs for iPhone, and a whole lot of determination.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can find more of his writing and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by the Andrewkn from Pixabay. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Transcript: https://jweberle.com/2022/03/28/how-i-finished-first-draft-my-novel/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's dispatch, Jonny reads his short story "Bad Air and Bitter Herbs" published by Creative Colloquy in 2020. This piece of fiction asks us to imagine a world where the medieval plague doctor never entirely disappeared and the legacy of the Black Death lingers over a modern-day pandemic.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can find more of his writing and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by the Guilherme Bernardes from Pixabay. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Transcript: https://jweberle.com/2020/07/20/new-short-story-bad-air-and-bitter-herbs/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy Early Lunar New Year! In today's dispatch, Jonny shares his first experience of participating in monkeyshines, a quirky annual tradition where glass artists hide handcrafted floats and medallions around the city of Tacoma to create a massive annual scavenger hunt. Special thanks to my father-in-law for tipping me off to the event all those years ago.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can find more of his writing and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by the chillmore from Pixabay. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Transcript: https://jweberle.com/2014/02/05/in-search-of-monkeyshine/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In 1998, a mouse changed U.S. copyright law forever—and nearly destroyed the public domain in the process. In today's dispatch, Jonny talks about the importance of the public domain for artists and writers, how corporations have pushed for absurd extensions to copyright terms in order to profit off long-dead creators, and what we can do to fix it.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can find more of his writing and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by Amurich from Pixabay. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Transcript: https://obscurestudios.net/podcasts/podcast-transcripts/transcripts-dispatches-with-jonny-eberle/dispatches-s2e1-transcript/

Original post: https://jweberle.com/2014/01/07/how-mickey-mouse-killed-the-public-domain/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? In today's dispatch, Jonny shares a piece he wrote on New Year's Eve 2019, just weeks before a global pandemic upended everyone's lives. In the before times, he reflects on the turning of a new decade and what we bring with us from the past. Learn more about the history of the poem Auld Lang Syne on John Green's podcast, The Anthropocene Reviewed. This is our final episode of 2022. We'll be back in 2023, releasing two episodes per month.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can find more of his work, follow him on social media, and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by the United States Marine Band. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Original post: https://jweberle.com/2020/01/01/for-auld-lang-syne/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sit back and pour yourself some hot cocoa because in today's dispatch, Jonny shares his holiday-themed short story, "The Evidence for Coal." Special thanks to William McDonald for his narration. You can learn more about William on his website.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can listen to his audio drama, The Adventures of Captain Radio, wherever you enjoy podcasts. You can find more of his work, follow him on social media, and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by Dream Protocol from Pixabay. Find more of our shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Read the full text of "Evidence for Coal" here: https://mailchi.mp/06ecede16e5a/evidence-for-coal-jonny-eberle

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

New York, New York. In today's dispatch, a story about writing, creativity, and travel takes us all the way to the Big Apple.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can find more of his work, follow him on social media, and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by JuliusH from Pixabay. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Transcript: https://jweberle.com/2016/08/10/the-writer-goes-to-nyc/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Only in silence the word, only in dark the light. In today's dispatch, Jonny revisits Ursula K. LeGuin's groundbreaking fantasy novel "A Wizard of Earthsea" and how it influenced his development as a writer.

Jonny Eberle is a writer, podcaster, filmmaker, and photographer. He lives in Tacoma, WA with his family, a dog, and three adorable typewriters. His fiction has appeared in Creative Colloquy, Grit City Magazine, and All Worlds Wayfarer. You can listen to his audio drama, The Adventures of Captain Radio, wherever you enjoy podcasts. You can find more of his work, follow him on social media, and subscribe to his monthly email newsletter at jweberle.com.

Dispatches with Jonny Eberle is a production of Obscure Studios. Music by REDProductions from Pixabay. Find more shows at www.obscurestudios.net. Thanks for listening!

Pick up a copy of "A Wizard of Earthsea" and support the show! We're a Bookshop.org affiliate. Shop with this link and we'll earn a small commission: https://bookshop.org/lists/magical-worlds-92cc09a8-6c3d-4e54-b78e-829180e7bc51

Transcript: https://jweberle.com/2016/12/29/a-lonely-kids-best-friend/

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.