Prose and Cons

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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

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Prose and Cons episodes:

February 06, 2023How to Endure as a Writer
Writing is fun, creative and expressive, but keeping up a regular practice can sometimes be a grind. In this epsiode, we give our tricks and insights into staying motived, balancing work and life, our different approaches to being productive, and explore the fascinating 'Pomodoro technique'.

If you've ever struggled with regular writing, or are just looking to maximise your daily word count, this is the episode for you.

STEPHEN KING REFERENCE COUNTER: 0 THIS EPISODE, 30 OVERALL
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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
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42min
February 02, 2023Books We Loved And Will Probably Never Finish
Note: Apologies for the re-upload on this one, there was an issue with the original that was creating gaps in the audio. We will be back to our regular scheduled programming next week!

Today we talk about books that we did not finish... but not because we didn't like them!

Today's episode features:
- DNFing perfectly serviceable books for treatises on latrines in the Middle Ages
- excessive feast scenes in the Redwall series
- icecream eating ninjas
- nasty POV switchouts
- the majesty of two-headed lizards and dustbowl traipsing turtles

and our complete inability to end a show with a modicum of structure ;)

STEPHEN KING REFERENCE COUNTER: 2 THIS EPISODE, 30 TOTAL

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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
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50min
January 23, 2023Adapting Books to Film
This week on prose and Cons, the gang explore the world of books adapted into films. From the best film adaptations to the very worst, we investigate what makes a great adaptation, what makes a book adaptable, and the books we would most love to see adapted.

(Also, James, you are objectively wrong and No Country for Old Men was a great film.)

STEPHEN KING REFERENCE COUNTER: 2 TODAY, 28 TOTAL.
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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
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56min
January 16, 2023The Subtle Art of TikTok
In this episode, Alex discusses the value of using TikTok's organic reach to sell books, including:
- Why TikTok is more than 12 year olds doing silly dances
- The openness and viability of BookTok as a community for authors
- How NOT to use TikTok
- What to make for your first video

STEPHEN KING COUNTER: 0 TODAY. 26 TOTAL.

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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
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51min
January 09, 2023How What We Read Affects What We Write
Today we go IN on the correlation between reading and writing: James, Paddy and Alex and discuss their most recent written work and how it is related to what they're reading right now. Along the way they discuss:
Unorthodox formatting choices
Hilary Mantel
Cherrypicking the good from the lousy
Biochemistry
More Hilary Mantel
Avoiding being distracted by awesome irrelevance
Reading versus audiobooking
and much more. Join us, intrepid listener, as we venture into the deep of associative reading.

STEPHEN KING REFERENCE COUNTER: 2 TODAY. 26 TOTAL.
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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
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54min
January 02, 2023Genre Deep-dive: Soft Science Fiction
Once again it's time to delve deep into genre, and this time we're plunging into the bizarre worlds of 'soft science fiction.' What is 'soft' science fiction? How does it differ from 'hard'? Why are there fierce internet battles over how 'soft' is defined? And are Jedi just wizards with space magic? All will be revealed in this all-informative episode of Prose & Cons.

STEPHEN KING REFERENCE COUNTER: 0 TODAY, 24 TOTAL.
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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
...more
49min
December 26, 2022Character Flaws
How do you tackle a well-written character flaw? In this episode we test out Ally’s awesome character personality slider tool, fable arcs, sound out our pet peeve character flaws, discuss research/sensitivity and play a rate-your-character-flaws game!

STEPHEN KING REFERENCE COUNTER: 0 TODAY, 24 TOTAL.

This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: https://mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: https://www.precipicefiction.com
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/precipicefiction/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
Send us a message!
Contact us at: precipicefiction.com/contact/

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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
...more
50min
December 19, 2022Writing Your Career
Join Paddy and Alex for a special one-on-one conversation as they drill down into the whys and hows of their individual careers, both their commercial and creative sides. They talk sustaining a living in self-publishing, choosing the genre and format of their next work, accepting that they 'can't all be zingers', and how to make the Dunning-Kruger effect work for your career. Also, find out which writing lessons they are stealing from Stephen King this week.

STEPHEN KING REFERENCE COUNTER: 4 TODAY, 24 TOTAL.

• Alex's Tik Tok channel: https://www.tiktok.com/@areldridgeauthor?lang=en
• 'Golden Hour' by Alex (A. R. Eldridge): https://mybook.to/GoldenHour
• 'Pride', by the Knifepoint Horror podcast: https://knifepointhorror.libsyn.com/pride
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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
...more
1h 1min
December 12, 2022Writer's Block
The gang spend this episode talking about writer's block in all its forms: from the micro of trying to write more than 500 words in a day, to the big picture, middle-of-the-night scaries of self-doubt, Alex, Ally, James and Paddy reveal their secrets to dealing with this dreaded authorial bugbear. (NOTE: The book Alex tries and fails to find in this ep is Daily Rituals by Mason Curry.)

Choice quote: "Make more word spaghetti, baby writer!"
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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
...more
1h 7min
December 05, 2022Critiquing Critiques
Have you ever heard the phrase "show, don't tell"? It's one of many critiques that writers will hear over the course of their early career (and possibly beyond) - but what does it mean? And does it always apply? We go over some of the most common, and some not-so-common, critiques and advice that you can receive as a writer, and try to revive an ongoing mountain lion joke with limited to middling success.
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This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.

Brought to you by Precipice Fiction. Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy.

The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic

Website: precipicefiction.com

YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction

Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/

Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic

Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
...more
49min

FAQs about Prose and Cons:

How many episodes does Prose and Cons have?

The podcast currently has 129 episodes available.