Sam J. Miller, Doug Henderson and T. K. Rex discuss tapping into who you really are, going too far first, the Clarion writers workshop, writing stories with a structural conceit, filing off the serial numbers, writing from a marginalized point of view, loneliness, climate anxiety, hope, inhale and exhale phases, video games, writing as programming, AI, writing to a specific audience, and writing the gayest sh*t imaginable.

Stuff we mentioned in the episode:

• Boys, Beasts and Men (novel by Sam J. Miller)
• The Cleveland Heights LGBTQ Sci-Fi and Fantasy Role Playing Club (novel by Doug Henderson)
• Smokefall (game by Sam J. Miller, playable demo on itch.io)
• The Art of Starving (novel by Sam J. Miller)
• Samuel R. Delaney (author)
• Clarion writers workshop
• Clarkesworld magazine
• Cassandra Clare (author)
• "Liking What You See: A Documentary" (novelet by Ted Chiang)
• "There’s a Hole in the City" (short story by Richard Bowes)
• "Inventory" (short story by Carmen Maria Machado)
• Graham Greene (author)
• Pale Fire (novel by Vladimir Nabokov)
• The Pogues (band)
• What Did You Eat Yesterday (manga)
• Anarchism: A Very Short Introduction (nonfiction book)
• The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi (novel by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o)
• Shingai Njeri Kagunda (author)
• L. P. Kindred (author)
• Baldur’s Gate III