The Nudge

The guys struggle with the day-to-day trial of writing 1,600 words per day for NaNoWriMo. They discuss the boons and burdens of memory-association, the advantages of making yourself write, and the importance of the embodiment of writing. 

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After a long break in the project, the boys return to their screenplays in-process. They read and discuss Matt's untitled piece about three women on a train; Eric's "Patch," about a Twitch-streamer living two very different lives; and Kyle's "A Kiss Before Dying," about an ancient vampire in the Jersey suburbs. 

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The boys bring Tim's work under their scrutinizing glass. Two fiction pieces, "A Patch of Wild Grass" and "Motley of Denial" are read. This brings about a number of discussion points regarding how refrain works in fiction, what it means to be in Kentucky but not be able to write in Kentucky metaphorically, and how to know if a story is packed too tight or strung too loose. As always, more questions than answers, but a small workshop session studying the concrete details of our own writing. To read along, the pieces are on our Discord.

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Having successfully funded the Kickstarter for their new book, the guys discuss where they'll go from here and what they'll be writing over the coming weeks. Plans for NaNoWriMo 2022 are laid.

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In an effort to understand 'when a thing is done', Matt compares writing to a walk through a neighborhood. He and Eric talk about writing as a physical act of labor, bound by the energy food provides us, and then move from Jenny Odell's book, How to Do Nothing into deeper territory about attention and luxuriating in that, which might provide the answers they want.

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In a discussion about the future of their small independent press, the boys talk about how they might unite their writing under a common aesthetic umbrella and what kinds of other writers the press should look to promote. They also discuss taking breaks from work in order to write and the value of the hallowed 'writer's retreat.'

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Eric & Kyle discuss conversations around the metaverse, body modification, and George Saunders. The role of imagination and 'play' in fiction also get their moments in the sun.

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Kyle finishes a novel; Matt recovers his wallet; and Eric proposes a short writing session for the podcast and its listeners. The boys encounter a minor defeat and struggle to go on without what was lost. 

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We interview Simon K. Jones, serial fiction writer, just back from Malta.

Eric, Matt, and Kyle spend time with Chris, our producer and a fictional encyclopedist, chatting setting both scene and expectation.