Welcome to The Deceptionists: Truth through Fiction!
In this episode Caroline, Dave, Kelly, and Jim chart the maps to our worlds, discussing how geography and history have played into our creation process. Dave asks how much made-up stuff is too much, Jim melts the ice caps, and Kelly reads from “The Vessel!” Also… we actually don’t talk about Vampires on this episode.
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Music on this episode:
Maybe There’s a World by Cat Stevens
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In this episode Caroline, Dave, Kelly, and Jim review our chosen “world-building” assignments and examine the hurdles we’ve faced thus far. Note: there’s a little bad audio toward the end of the show — this was a Skype issue, so we can’t fix the audio much, but it’s still fairly listenable.
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Music on this episode:
The World Turned Upside Down by Billy Brag
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In this episode Caroline, Dave, Kelly, and Jim begin to take our world-building out of the abstract and into practice, as we discuss where we begin, then draw world-building assignments for future episodes!
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Music on this episode:
What’s He Building in There? by Tom Waits
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In this episode Caroline, Dave, Kelly, and Jim talk begin our series on world-building, as we define our terms and talk about WHY we build worlds! Also: Archaia’s “World-Building” panel at C2E2.
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Music on this episode:
I’m Gonna Change the World by The Animals
I’m not Living in the Real World by Belle and Sebastian
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In this episode Caroline, Dave, Kelly, and Jim talk about revision, and how to really get to the end of what you’re working on.
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Music on this episode:
Changing All Those Changes by Nick Lowe
Fix You Up by Tegan and Sara
Read Sigrid Ellis’ story, “No Return Address,” which was discussed on this episode!
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In this episode Caroline, Dave and special guest Julia talk about Endings… and how you get there from here.
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Music on this episode:
End of the Road by Eddie Vedder
End to End by Blondie
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In this episode Caroline, Kelly and Dave reflect on the Deceptionists of 2011 and then look forward to 2012 and our writing resolutions!
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Music on this episode:
New Year’s Eve by Tom Waits
Read Dave’s story on Mulholland Books’ Popcorn Fiction site.
Write some words and see some kittens: http://writtenkitten.net/
Aaaaaand we’re done.
How’d you do? I didn’t do so well myself. I couldn’t get over that 35k block fast enough (or indeed, at all), and when I looked around last week for the motivation to persevere, I just couldn’t find it. What I’d built so far felt so disconnected, it may as well have been 9 chapters from 5 different novels. It didn’t seem worth continuing just to prove that I could do it. So I didn’t.
But!
I did write over 31,000 words this month, which is considerable and much more than I’ve written in quite a while. While I’m not considering this a “win” by any means, it’s definitely progress, and at the end of the day, taking a step forward with your writing, no matter if it’s a thousand words or fifty thousand, is really what it’s all about.
So welcome to December! It’s time for chores and books and other writing projects you’ve been neglecting for the last 30 days!
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In this episode Caroline, Kelly, Jim and Dave talk about what happens when you get into a Cluster-F.U.C.! (That’s “Fiction Under Construction,” you know.)
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Music on this episode:
Won’t Give Up without a Fight by Eli “Paperboy” Reed And The True Loves
Don’t Give Up on Me by Solomon Burke
And visit Dave’s comic book website: http://sparrowandcrowe.com.
Doing NaNoWriMo this year? There’s no need to do it alone. Come buddy up with the deceptionists and all your podcast listening friends. Comment to this post with your NaNo Username or a link to your profile. I’ll come back in and update the list as I find time amid all the things I’m doing to distract myself from my 1667/day word count goals :)
I’ll even put up some fancy widgets once they come online. If you’d rather not see your word count on the leaderboard, just let me know and I’ll take you off. LIkewise, if you’ve buddied up with me and I haven’t added you to this list, don’t take it personally. I’m just dense. Shoot me an email or a tweet and I’ll get you added.
Have a great November and may the word count be ever in your favor!
The Deceptionists:
Kelly
Jim (who is probably doing it, but doesn’t want to be all public about it)
Dave?
(Caroline is sitting this one out, but still using the month to focus on writing goals)
The Peanut Gallery:
Mizzelle
CeeKayEll/Chris
(Special Guest Star) Sigrid
WeaklyRoll/Kyle
Shaun
By storytellers for storytellers, the Deceptionists podcast examines the art, craft and process of writing -- in an attempt to bring communal experience to the solitary life of the writer.
