Words Are Hard Podcast

In tonight’s episode, Chase, Nienna and Amy talk about genre, with a special emphasis on stories that don’t fit neatly into a single category. As well as covering topics such as the purpose of genre (is it only for readers, or useful for writers, too?), we discuss our favourite cross-genre… Continue reading

AKA Questions and Answers, Part 1, in which we get distracted by talking about Captain Planet. In this episode, Chase, Raven and Amy break the usual podcast schedule for a more informal chat. We take the opportunity to ask one another questions about our writing processes, with topics ranging from… Continue reading

Every story needs a plot, so this week we talk about a few of the basic forms that can take. We start by covering the seven core conflicts a story can encompass (more details below), then discuss the essentials your plot needs to have. This could be as simple as… Continue reading

In the first of our regular segment of reviews and story discussions, we talk about Guild Wars 2, the game through which we all met. Note: this is an in-depth talk about the plot, characters and gameplay of GW2, and we hold nothing back, which means spoilers aplenty. You have… Continue reading

In our second episode, we talk about that most fundamental aspect of writing fiction: creating characters. We discuss basics like the importance of characters within a story, how to develop the background and details of your characters – including their names – and our personal approaches to their creation. There… Continue reading

Welcome to the Words Are Hard podcast! In our first episode, we start with the topic of fan-fiction. Writing for the Guild Wars 2 site ‘Chronicles of Tyria‘ is how we met, and we all have our own approaches to writing fan-fiction; as well as talking about how we got… Continue reading