Najlepsze podcasty z kategorii: Masochist (2025)

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Episode 149: Especially the Lies: Building Unreliable Worlds, ft. MARINA LOSTETTER 1:11:21

13d ago1:11:21

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What happens when the world your characters -- or your readers -- first find themselves in turns out to be not quite what it appears? Marina Lostetter joins us to explore the different ways that a writer can play with an unreliable world. Maybe it means a story of scientific discovery that reshapes how their characters perceive their place in the u…

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Episode 148: Horny on Main: Smutting Up Your Worldbuilding 1:49:10

27d ago1:49:10

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In honor of Valentine's Day, the season of Carnivale, and our own amusement, we bring to you this extra-long episode, where we heat things up and get a little down and dirty with our worldbuilding. What role does sex play in the world you're building -- and how do you depict that? This comes up a lot, obviously, in romantasy and other related subge…

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Episode 147: Something Is A-Myth, ft. KRITIKA H. RAO 1:00:39

1M ago1:00:39

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Mythological retellings have been having A Moment in fiction for a few years now. So, why do we do that? Kritika H. Rao joins us to explore the power and agency inherent in recontextualizing mythology for a modern readership! What is it that we reclaim or rediscover in retelling these stories for ourselves? And, on the other end of the scale, how c…

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Episode 146: A Matter of Character (ft SOPHIE BURNHAM) 1:06:55

2M ago1:06:55

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The world a character exists in shapes their identity on many axes of power and privilege. So how do those various scales affect the emotional stakes of the story they find themselves in? Guest Sophie Burnham joins us to discuss building a world that suits the characters you have in your head! As a writer who starts with character first, Burnham an…

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Episode 145: To Worldbuild or Not to Worldbuild, That Is the Question 1:15:38

2M ago1:15:38

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And obviously the answer is yes! But in this episode, we answer your questions! We talk about the "rules" and common advice of worldbuilding -- and the ways in which we merrily ignore, redefine, or defy them. We pull apart some techniques related to the craft of communicating worldbuilding to a reader and how to achieve balance within a story. We d…

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Episode 144: What Do You Do with a B.A. in Magic? 1:10:59

3M ago1:10:59

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How do the people in your world learn things? Lessons learned might come from formalized institutions, but knowledge might also get passed down through families, through guilds and trade organizations, or through the wisdom whispered in a character's ear by the trees. A world's literacy rate will define a lot about how information gets transmitted,…

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Episode 143: Children of the Revolution 1:09:06

3M ago1:09:06

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In this episode, we discuss purely fictional, 100% not-at-all real, nothing to do with contemporary life ideas about rebellions and revolutions. Any resemblance to actual events, locations, or persons is coincidental. Completely. Continuing our "back to basics" series, and jumping off of a lot of the things we've discussed in the recent episodes on…

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Episode 142: Law & Order (DUN DUN) 1:20:20

4M ago1:20:20

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So once you've got a government, what can that government do? What does it regulate, and how is it, itself, regulated? Laws can be created for a lot of reasons, some good and some bad. Sometimes they protect a citizen's opportunity to do certain things, sometimes they present a block to those opportunities, and very often, they aren't applied equal…

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Episode 141: More Perfect Unions 1:24:11

4M ago1:24:11

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Government is a set of rules agreed upon, and politics is how a society determines those rules. So how do you create the systems by which civilizations negotiate those levers of power in your fantasy or sci-fi world? On the sliding scale of representation to authoritarianism, where do the civilizations in your world fall -- and why? What pressures …

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Episode 140: Practical Magic, ft. ROWENNA MILLER 1:07:43

5M ago1:07:43

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As with the last two “back to basics” episodes, we thought we’d spend some time looking the thing that (usually, though there are exceptions) makes fantasy fantastical – the magic! How do we build magical systems, and what questions do we ask ourselves while doing so? Guest and former WFM co-host Rowenna Miller joins us to discuss how, exactly, we …

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Episode 139: 2 Crunchy, 2 Curious 1:17:19

5M ago1:17:19

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We’re spending a couple of episodes going back to the basics of worldbuilding, talking about the questions that it’s often fruitful to ask oneself when you’re doing this wild thing. Last time we did the physical world, so now it’s time for the world of people! What are the building blocks of a human life? (Or an alien one, or draconic, or elven, or…

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Episode 138: Crunchy Questions 1:11:37

6M ago1:11:37

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Every once in a while, it's good to go back to the basics. And for us, that means the basics of worldbuilding! When you're getting started out with a new project, building a world from the ground up, there are a lot of things you can take into consideration! This episode is not so much about finding the answers as figuring out how to ask the questi…

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Episode 137: Smile and Be a Villain, ft. CHLOE GONG 1:07:20

6M ago1:07:20

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A villain may not have excuses for their behavior -- but they probably have reasons. How can worldbuilding feed those reasons? Antagonists are often those characters who are both the most willing and the most able to seize control of power structures and take advantage of their privileges. So what pressures in your world have created those structur…

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Episode 136: Live from WorldCon in Glasgow! 1:02:13

6M ago1:02:13

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We were all in the same room! And that room was in Scotland! In this episode, your WFM co-hosts were able to record a special episode at WorldCon. We chat about ourselves, our works, the Traveling Light anthology, and our favorite components of a world to build. And then, we take some audience questions! (We apologize that some of them are a little…

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Episode 135: Philosophical Acts of Translation, ft. KEN LIU 1:12:37

7M ago1:12:37

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What can translation and transmission of ideas and stories over time teach us about a society -- and about storytelling? Guest Ken Liu joins us to talk about the intertwining of philosophy, imagination, and translation. As writers, we can never fully translate the story that plays out in our heads onto the page, because every reader will imagine so…

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Episode 134: Print The Legend: Weaving Myth and History into One, ft. NALO HOPKINSON 1:18:33

7M ago1:18:33

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Where does mythology come from? How does it tie us together? What does one world's mythology tell us about its people, how they view themselves, and their interactions with the divine? We speak to Nalo Hopkinson about myths, mythologies, folklore, and the stories that we tell each other as well as the stories we invent. [Transcript TK] Our Guest: N…

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Episode 133: The Devil in the Details, ft. M.J. KUHN 1:02:11

8M ago1:02:11

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A perennial question that our listeners often have is: How do you organize your worldbuilding? Do you have templates to use? Charts to fill out? Once you start imagining all your fantastic choices, how do you keep track of them all and then weave them along with your plot? Well, the answer to all of this, as with so many writing questions, is "do w…

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Episode 132: Just a Small Town Worldbuild, ft. CHERIE PRIEST 1:20:17

8M ago1:20:17

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A lot of the time, fantasy worldbuilding invokes huge maps, spanning civilizations and continents, with characters traversing vast distances on their epic quests. But what about the worldbuilding that happens with a tighter focus on an intimate, even insular location? Guest Cherie Priest joins us to discuss creating small towns just ripe for gothic…

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Episode 131: Projects! 1:09:38

9M ago1:09:38

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It's the start of our sixth season! And we've got some projects going on. The Traveling Light anthology, which we Kickstarted -- with the help of many of you listeners! -- at the start of the fifth season, is now almost complete! We've finished the page proofs and are about to turn this into a Real Book. In this episode, you'll get to hear from the…

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Episode 130: Large-Scale Worldbuilding for Character-Centric Worlds, ft. REBECCA ROANHORSE 1:03:48

9M ago1:03:48

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Massive worlds require massive worldbuilding -- or do they? Sometimes, a narrower, character-centric scope can create a tight and compelling narrative while still crafting an expansive world. Guest Rebecca Roanhorse joins us to discuss how knowing your characters can help you konw your world. What does it mean to let character lead worldbuilding? H…

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Episode 129: Motorcycles and Magic, ft HANA LEE 1:08:43

10M ago1:08:43

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"Traditional" fantasy novels often hold themselves to a pre-gunpowder/pre-steampower level of tech. So, what’s fun about setting a fantasy world in an era that has anything from the printing press to cell phones? Guest Hana Lee joins us to explore incorporating the technological into the magical world! How can the harnessing of magic be similar to …

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Episode 128: The Carousel of Progress 1:24:32

10M ago1:24:32

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Making fantasy worlds into living, growing worlds means giving them a history of change and growth and shifts in technology and culture, not to mention governments and borders. We talk about building history, historical ages and generational shifts, as well as diving into what are the historical ages in the world of the MNG, and how has it grown? A…

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Episode 127: Expanding Worlds 1:06:19

11M ago1:06:19

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It's been a while since we spent some time in the world of the MNG! So in this episode, we apply some topics from recent episodes as well as some worldbuilding staples to the cultures we've been developing in our ongoing co-created world. We play with nifty biology! We consider the monstrous! We think about love and education and phases of growth! …

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Episode 126: When Worldbuilding Gets Wild, ft PREMEE MOHAMED 1:25:35

11M ago1:25:35

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Critters, creatures, and things that crawl -- part of the fun of building a new world is getting to populate it with not just sapient characters, but all the flora and fauna. And sometimes, that means the things you find in the smallest corners and crevices. Guest Premee Mohamed joins us to talk about the role of bugs and other biology in worldbuil…

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Episode 125: Monstrous Worldbuilding, ft. JOHN WISWELL 1:26:52

12M ago1:26:52

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From the Minotaur to xenomorphs to the undead, monsters and their ilk have long been a staple of the sci-fi and fantasy genres. But what exactly is it that makes a monster? Guest John Wiswell joins us to discuss how monsters in fiction often reflect not only our primal fears, but also the people that society seeks to Other. When monsters reflect wh…

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Episode 149: Especially the Lies: Building Unreliable Worlds, ft. MARINA LOSTETTER 1:11:21

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Episode 144: What Do You Do with a B.A. in Magic? 1:10:59

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Episode 142: Law & Order (DUN DUN) 1:20:20

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Episode 140: Practical Magic, ft. ROWENNA MILLER 1:07:43

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Episode 139: 2 Crunchy, 2 Curious 1:17:19

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Episode 138: Crunchy Questions 1:11:37

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Episode 137: Smile and Be a Villain, ft. CHLOE GONG 1:07:20

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Episode 136: Live from WorldCon in Glasgow! 1:02:13

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Episode 135: Philosophical Acts of Translation, ft. KEN LIU 1:12:37

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Episode 134: Print The Legend: Weaving Myth and History into One, ft. NALO HOPKINSON 1:18:33

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Episode 133: The Devil in the Details, ft. M.J. KUHN 1:02:11

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Episode 132: Just a Small Town Worldbuild, ft. CHERIE PRIEST 1:20:17

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Episode 131: Projects! 1:09:38

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Episode 130: Large-Scale Worldbuilding for Character-Centric Worlds, ft. REBECCA ROANHORSE 1:03:48

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Episode 129: Motorcycles and Magic, ft HANA LEE 1:08:43

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Episode 128: The Carousel of Progress 1:24:32

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Episode 127: Expanding Worlds 1:06:19

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Episode 126: When Worldbuilding Gets Wild, ft PREMEE MOHAMED 1:25:35

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Episode 125: Monstrous Worldbuilding, ft. JOHN WISWELL 1:26:52

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