Franchise writing with Una McCormack

Franchise writing with Una McCormack

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe basic principles of writing a book are simple – come up with an idea, write it. Of course, it isn’t really that simple, it is a lot of hard work, but that’s about the size of it, right? Well, not...
Rethinking the Badass with Alex Acks

Rethinking the Badass with Alex Acks

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS There needs to be a serious fucking cultural conversation about the storytelling desire to turn everyone into an edgy badass that thinks all problems are best solved with violence and what the overwhelming...
Disposable characters

Disposable characters

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSRedshirts. No sooner are they introduced than they are killed. The tension rises, there are beads of sweat on Kirk’s brow… now the audience knows the peril is real. These stock, disposable characters exist in a story...
Women’s jobs in science fiction

Women’s jobs in science fiction

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWith equality of pay and the drive to get more women in top executive jobs reaching the headlines in our current era, does the world of the future have women in the same roles they occupy now, or do they have them in...
Idealised characters and Mary Sues

Idealised characters and Mary Sues

Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe’ve all encountered them – characters who can do anything. They have physical and mental abilities beyond every other character in that world, perhaps even abilities that no one else in the world has in any...