Rite Gud

By Kittysneezes

This isn’t a podcast for total beginners. We’re going to assume that you know what plot structure is, what a protagonist is, where ideas come from, and how to use a semicolon. This is a podcast for pe... more

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January 18, 2024 Losers, Failures and Fuck-Ups
Everybody loves a winner–either a hyper competent alpha male who always saves the day, or maybe a relatable underdog who beats the odds and comes out on top. But in this episode of Rite Gud, we’re paying tribute to literary losers, fuck-ups, and failures. Joining us is J.R. Bolt.
About Rite Gud: R. S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.

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1h 13min
December 28, 2023Writing About Disability
In this episode, we’re talking about physical disability. How do we portray disabilities in fiction? How should we portray them? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong?
James McPherson joins us to examine how disabilities are portrayed in works like Fury Road, Avatar, Game of Thrones, Evil Dead and Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis.

Links:
Plea from a Disappointed Man
9 Ableist Tropes in Fiction I Could Do Without
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1h 1min
December 07, 2023Toothless Vampires
There’s a trend in contemporary SFF to soften or humanize monsters. We have nice vampires who don’t kill people, sad ghosts who don’t torment the living, succubi who don’t fuck anyone. Some people find this charming, but here at Rite Gud, we like it when monsters are monstrous.
Links
David Cage denies allegations of toxic workplace culture at Quantic Dream
Mormon teens on TikTok are filming themselves “jump-humping,” a tactic used to avoid thrusting during penetrative sex
Podside Picnic
Up in the Hills She Dreams of Her Daughter Deep in the Ground
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1h 11min
November 16, 2023Eat Gud
Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. I’m RS Benedict, and I’ll be your waiter this evening. On tonight’s menu, we’re starting off with a discussion about the lack of physicality in contemporary speculative fiction. Then we’ll move on to the entree, in which we chew on why, exactly, it’s so important to consider food in your writing. And for dessert, we will leave you with an assortment of examples to follow. Joining us is Karlo Yeager Rodriguez, storyteller and head chef at Podside Picnic. Transcript here.
Links:
Karlo’s website
Podside Picnic
Susan Powter’s Stop the Insanity info-mercial
Juicero is still the greatest example of Silicon Valley stupidity
When Corn Flakes were part of an anti-masturbation crusade
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1h 28min
October 26, 2023(Don’t) Gotta Go Fast
The average American consumes 100,000 words a day. But what do we retain? What have we learned? We think that bigger is better, and more is better, but what about quality over quantity? Will reading more books make you smarter? Does writing more books mean you’re a better author? And what’s the difference between a binge and a feast? Here to talk about this is Lola Sebastian.
Links:
Lola’s YouTube Channel
The Only Warrior Cats Podcast
What do people really mean by “invisible prose?”
Fat Books vs Bloated Books
The American Diet: 34 Gigabytes a Day
If Books Could Kill: Rich Dad Poor Dad
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1h 5min
October 05, 2023Touch Grass
A sense of place can ground your story, or create a mood, or give it something really unique. Unfortunately, in an era in which we are all way too online, it’s easy to neglect this, and stick our characters in a weird featureless void. So how can we escape the set design from THX-1138? One way is by engaging with nature. Here to talk about it is Ashely Adams.
Recommended Reading:
Annie Dillard “Total Eclipse”
Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac
Ursula K. Le Guin
Jeff Vandermeer
Andrew F. Sullivan The Marigold, Waste
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Octavia Butler’s Parable books
Beowulf (no really)
Gwendolyn Kiste, The Rust Maidens
Nicole Walker,” Microclimates Lower Sonoran”
Brooke Bolander The Only Harmless Great Thing
Rachel Carson
John Brunner The Sheep Look Up
Anne McCaffrey’s Pern Series
Wayne Barlowe’s Expedition
Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
Flyway
Ecotone
Aimee Nezhukumatathil “The Soils I Have Eaten”
Caitlin Horrocks “The Sleep”
BK Loren Animal Mineral Radical
Sherwin Bitsui Flood Song
Ernestine Hayes “Winter in Lingit Brings Magpies and Ravens”
John D’Agata About a Mountain
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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59min
September 14, 2023Fite Gud
While you studied writing, I studied the blade. While you were having critique sessions, I mastered the parry. While you wasted your days at writing workshops in pursuit of sentence craft I cultivated grip strength. And now that you’re trying to write an epic fantasy novel and you don’t know how to handle swordplay you have the audacity to come to me for help? Well, you’re in the right place. In this episode of Rite Gud, we are talking about swords. We are joined by Johanus Haidner of The Academy of European Swordsmanship.
Links:
Johanus’ Amazon author page
The Academy of European Swordsmanship
On Insta
On YouTube
Sword Gear
On Insta
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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August 24, 2023More Bad Writing Advice
Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of writing advice out there that doesn’t help you write good. In fact, it helps you write pretty bad. And some of this advice is from professional, published writers. Here to join us once again for another episode about bad writing advice is Mattie Lewis. We talk about the virtues of head hopping, the problem with MICE, and why you shouldn’t let a robot tell you whether or not your prose is vivid.
Note: The audio quality in this episode isn’t as pristine as we would like it due to a technical error; we cleaned it up the best we could.
Links:
The MICE Quotient
The robot that wants to tell you about writing vivid prose
Authors are losing their patience with AI
Raising a person in a culture full of types
Ron Ejaculated Loudly
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1h 12min
August 03, 2023The Way to Write the Other is Not To Make the Other Into You
There’s a long tradition in Western literature of exoticizing other cultures, particularly the East and the Global South. And recently, there’s been a major effort to undo all that–to de-exoticize the way we depict other cultures. And that’s a a step in the right direction, for sure. Stereotyping and dehumanizing people from other cultures is bad. However, many writers, especially in genre fiction, seem to think that the way to fix exoticism is to homogenize every culture from every part of the world and every time period. We are joined by Karlo Yeager Rodríguez.
Transcript here.
Links:
Karlo’s website
Seize the Press
So what exactly is blood quantum?
Uyen Ninh – Mixed Couple Reality Show
(Header image via Bruce C Cooper with modifications)
About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1h 12min
July 13, 2023 Seize the Press!
In this episode, we talk to Jonny Pickering, founder and editor-in-chief of Seize the Press. [Transcript here]

About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction. Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC. Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com. Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes and more.
The Rite Gud theme is by OK Glass. Follow them on Twitter, YouTube and Bandcamp, and at OK.Glass.
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1h 1min

FAQs about Rite Gud:

How many episodes does Rite Gud have?

The podcast currently has 109 episodes available.