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Rationally Writing episodes

May 13, 2018 Episode 42 - Worth the Candle (Guest: CthulhuRaeJepsen)
Special guest CthulhuRaeJepsen joins the podcast to discuss pseudonyms, and his story Worth the Candle.
Timestamps:
2:19 Writing Under Pseudonym
7:52 Worth the Candle
17:07 Spoiler Talk up to Ch. 84
48 min
April 08, 2018 Episode 41 - Worldbuilding: Second Order Effects
Daystar and Alexander discuss worldbuilding, and why considering second-order effects is so important to making it rational, and can help in finding or fleshing out good plots.
2:50 Battle School concept
6:46 Inadequate Equilibria As Story Elements
22:55 Shadows of the Limelight
28:22 Consequence of the Consequence
37:20 Aesop Exacerbation
41:14 Confronting Civilizational Inadequacy
49 min
March 10, 2018 Episode 40 - Review: The Prestige
Daystar and Alexander review the movie The Prestige, and explore what made it such a well constructed, perhaps even rational, work of fiction.
Timestamps
2:24 Summary + Was it Rational?
16:30 Foreshadowing
21:34 Clashing Ideologies
25:22 Noticing Confusion
30:25 Magic and Storytelling
45:40 Repeat Viewings
48 min
January 13, 2018 Episode 39 - Children in Fiction
Daystar and Alexander discuss children in fiction, including what makes them realistic and why reactions to them can vary so widely.
Timestamps
0:31 Advantages of child protagonists
4:43 "Children don't act like that."
16:00 Keeping smart/mature children children
20:37 Evergreen methods
26:40 Predictive Processing and "Wonder"
34:33 In Pokemon: ToOS
44 min
November 11, 2017 Episode 38 - The Medium of Prose Fiction
Daystar and Alexander discuss the unique aspects of the various mediums of prose fiction, and how new technologies introduce new opportunities and challenges.
Timestamps
5:03 Technological limitations
11:01 Conventions
16:45 New Media
19:27 Music
24:45 Subjectivity
31:45 Mediumception
44 min
October 09, 2017 Episode 37 - Power Dynamics
Daystar and Alexander discuss how to plan out and navigate different power dynamics to keep your stories engaging.
Time Stamps
0:42 Power in Fiction
3:46 World vs Protagonist vs Antagonist
11:14 New Dimsensions vs Power Creep
14:34 Rationalist Fiction
22:25 Power Differential on a Different Axis
32:55 Powers as Part of Identities
37:01 Protagonist vs Antagonist
47:58 Power in Romance stories
55 min
September 08, 2017 Episode 36 - Effective Brainstorming
Daystar and Alexander explore brainstorming, and how trope lists, patterns, and symmetry can be used to come up with new takes on old ideas.
39 min
July 15, 2017 Episode 35 - Breaking the Story
Daystar and Alexander explore how to "break the story" when outlining its plot and character arcs.
Time Stamps:
00:49 What is Breaking the Story?
5:12 Example
13:38 Character Arcs
28:40 Plot and Endings
44 min
June 18, 2017 Episode 34 - Review of Dark Wizard of Donkerk (Spoilers)
Daystar and Alexander review Alex's latest NaNoWriMo book, The Dark Wizard Of Donkerk.
Time Stamps:
1:12 Magic Systems
9:18 The Twist
15:53 Spirit Magic
20:47 Potential Sequel
25:17 Plot Threads
28:33 Villain
31:49 The Prophecy
39 min
May 20, 2017 Episode 33 - Review of Pokemon: OoS (Spoilers to Ch. 43)
Daystar and Alexander review some of each other's writing, starting with Pokemon: The Origin of Species
3:30 Planning the story
8:36 Present Tense
10:15 Viewpoints
16:39 Goals/Defeats
23:41 Cycles
28:24 Interludes
34:55 Criticisms
44 min

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Webserial authors Daystar Eld and Alexander Wales talk about the craft of writing stories that make sense, and examine writing tropes and media through the lens of the Rational and Rationalist genres.

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