We Aren’t Dead Yet Episode 2: How We Write Short Fiction
Welcome to Episode 2 of We Aren’t Dead Yet, a podcast throwing magic missiles into the ttrpg, gamer and speculative fiction sphere and seeing whether we come out alive at the end.
Every Thursday will be WADY Day, a celebration of something gamer, literature or culture shocking with three friends who found each other online via World Anvil and went “Hey! Let’s talk”. We found out we all have a lot to say and different approaches to the same questions.
We have a veteran Dungeon Master, an award winning World Builder & Media Producer, and a bestselling cyberpunk + mythpunk author, here to snark, speak and speculate on fiction, creative professions and games.
TODAY’S EPISODE… HOW WE WRITE SHORT FICTION!
Join us as we dive into the fascinating world of storytelling and explore the unique approaches we took in crafting the short stories featured in our anthology Macabre and Monstrous, A Horror Anthology of Eldritch Space, Myth Monsters and Forest Frights. All three of us wrote stories for Macabre and Monstrous, Emily with cosmic horror & body horror inspired Fell Plumes with Lark and Mech, two lovers acting as couriers in the fringes & Salvager’s Loop, where elderly salvager Corven finds a lucky score… maybe not the right kind of luck, there Corvs. KS hits the monster mash creature feature with Harvest of Horror and the rise of Aichil, the Demon Tree, while young Wizardess in Training Tenya and her mentor Aunt Myra bake bread and take names. Sapha lands with The Lamia, a mythological monster released in Vancouver on the trail of a wounded Caleb Mauthisen. The fall of Carolee from loving Irish-Catholic mother to the Fairy Queen’s assassin happens in the novella Whiskey and Sinners Blood.
In the podcast, we share anecdotes, challenges faced during the writing process and the collaborative efforts that went into creating a collection of stories that cover a range of horror genres.
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Cheers for now,
We’ll see you next week, for how to build more complex female characters!
Hosts: Sapha Burnell, K. S. Bishoff, Emily Armstrong
Audio Production: Emily Armstrong
Music: Jazzy Abstract Beat by Yrii Semchyshyn
