Sam J. Miller, Doug Henderson and T. K. Rex discuss tapping into who you really are, going too far first, the Clarion writers workshop, writing stories with a structural conceit, filing off the serial numbers, writing from a marginalized point of view, loneliness, climate anxiety, hope, inhale and exhale phases, video games, writing as programming, AI, writing to a specific audience, and writing the gayest sh*t imaginable.
Stuff we mentioned in the episode:
- Boys, Beasts and Men (novel by Sam J. Miller)
- The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club (novel by Doug Henderson)
- Smokefall (game by Sam J. Miller, playable demo on itch.io)
- The Art of Starving (novel by Sam J. Miller)
- Samuel R. Delaney (author)
- Clarion writers workshop
- Clarkesworld magazine
- Cassandra Clare (author)
- "Liking What You See: A Documentary" (novelet by Ted Chiang)
- "There’s a Hole in the City" (short story by Richard Bowes)
- "Inventory" (short story by Carmen Maria Machado)
- Graham Greene (author)
- Pale Fire (novel by Vladimir Nabokov)
- The Pogues (band)
- What Did You Eat Yesterday (manga)
- Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction (nonfiction book)
- The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o)
- Shingai Njeri Kagunda (author)
- L. P. Kindred (author)
- Baldur’s Gate III