On Riting

On Riting

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  • 022: Passive-Antagonistic

    In this episode of the snarkiest writing podcast, MJ, Sean, and Chadd look at Antagonists and Conflict, and the terrible advice people give about 'Villains.' Other topics include The Greatest Movie of All Time, how to fight a hurricane, and algebraic notation for writing an outlining. 
    Interested in getting feedback on your nanowrimo camp? Join us https://linktr.ee/onriting

    1 hr 8 min
  • 021: To The People III

    MJ, Chadd, and Sean are back with the third To The People, and they've got some extra strange sources: r/writingprompts, r/cormacmccarthy, and r/donnysdaddidntdieinthatmine. Other topics include Captain Kirk's insatiable bloodlust, the occasional poetry of the Rohirrim, and The Rumor Come Out: Does Is Bruno Mars Gay? 
    If you've got an embarrassing writing question, by yourself of Donny, feel free to join our discord and ask it of it. https://linktr.ee/onriting

    1 hr 8 min
  • 020: Biblically Accurate Italian Card Games

    We've gone biweekly! In this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Sean look at the memes surrounding 'accurate depictions' of various mythological critters in Riting Communities, and how the Waters and Mountains tinge everything about Angels, Fairies, Goblins, and, of course, Italian Card Games. Other topics include Garfield's Love Tunnel, Merlin Learned Quick Attack!, and the Ouija Rubicon. 
    Are you writing about Angels and Demons, and want some input on your drafts? Join us: https://linktr.ee/onriting

    1 hr 5 min
  • 019: Squeaky Wheels, Tall Poppies, and Niagara Falls

    In this episode, Shaun, Chad, and MJ offer more instantly applicable advice than usual, all while disguising it as snark over the Riting Server revision and critique process. Other topics include avoiding the furor of authorial ghosts, MJ's terrifying closet of uncollected work, and the dark text known as Plain English for Lawyers.  
    Do you have something for us to critique? Join up at https://linktr.ee/onriting

    1 hr 11 min
  • 018: Roleplaying Doesn't Start With W

    In this episode of the snarkiest writing podcast, Chad, Em-Jay, and Sean look at roleplaying games, roleplaying in riting communities, and the perilous example of looking at the licensed fiction-section of the Barnes and Noble. Other topics include how throwing great pool parties has sparked almost as many careers as great prose, Doing the Voices, and the perfection of the vampire known as Dev/Null. 
    Interested in telling us about your campaign, which didn't end, per se, but you're still really excited to write a novel from it? Get in touch here: https://linktr.ee/onriting

    1 hr 5 min
  • 017: How To Suffer In A Riting Community ft. Diana Helmuth

    In this episode, MJ, Shawn, and Chadd are joined by backpacker, witch, and published author, Diana Helmuth to talk about the process of suffering outside. There will also be writing advice, a discussion of the alarming impact of Serendipity on writing success, and a brief explanation of What The Bandanas Are For. 

    If you want more tips about how to look like an anime girl while turning into a Were-Mosquito, check out Diana's tiktok (https://www.tiktok.com/@defnotlost?lang=en), twitter(https://twitter.com/defnotlost), and, of course, her book: https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/how-to-suffer-outside-a-beginner2019s-guide-to-hiking-and-backpacking 
    I know, we don't have as many tips about boots -- yet -- but you can join our discord, or follow us on twitter through https://linktr.ee/onriting

    1 hr 8 min
  • 016 On Writing: Bad Consumption

    In this episode, MJ, Chad, and Shawn look at a fertile vein exposed by the blasting of r/movies: how to be a terrible consumer. Other topics include Drizzt Do'urden, the ending of The Sopranos, Godzilla, simulacra on the practical end of the colonial ambitions of central Europe, and Wulfgar the Barbarian's powerful seed. 
    Here's that link we mentioned: https://linktr.ee/onriting

    1 hr 12 min
  • 015 On Riting: Author, She Wrote

    In this episode, MJ, Chad, and Sean look at fictional depictions of authors, and try to extract a lot of myths of riterdom that emerge from all of us having watched too much Californication. Other topics include Bookselling in the late Renaissance, the Lathe of Heaven being on a hair-trigger, and Catfishing, (but only as Jude Law). 
    Want to get in touch with us to bring up that we never really talked about Romancing the Stone, or its pseudo-sequel The Lost City? https://linktr.ee/onriting

    1 hr 18 min
  • 014: The Biggest Community of All

    In this episode, MJ, Cead, and Shaun get on their eSkateboards and ollie into that vast, mysterious cyber-expanse: what is revealed when you type "How write a novel" into the the gaping maw of google. Other topics include Breaking Rules, the most memorable episode of X-Files, 120 pages on the Battle of Waterloo (No mentions of ABBA, strangely enough), and IGN. 
    Want to get in touch with us to tell us that, just like Micheal Moorcock, everyone really is telling your novel will never work? Join the discord! https://linktr.ee/onriting 

    1 hr 12 min
  • 013: To The People II

    We're headed back to Reddit and the worst of the worst on Disboard for the second installment of To The People! This time, Chad has gone spelunking on discord, Shaun has undertaken an anthropological study of r/writing's Top-All Time, and MJ has started exploring the rarest (and in some ways, most pathetic) Riting Communities: those that charge for participation. Other topics include Pregnant Women are Uranium, 13 Reasons to Terabitha, and diegetically boring expository soliloquys. 
    Do you have a question you'd like us to answer the next time we make one of these? Get in touch at https://linktr.ee/onriting 

    1 hr 25 min

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Three writers—a recovering academic, a writing professional, and a megaconsumer—take on Riting Communities, those online communities full of writers and terrible advice. Along the way (be warned, dear…