Worldbuilding for Masochists
A podcast by three fantasy authors who love to overcomplicate their writing lives and want to help you do the same.
Latest episodes
Oct 16, 2019 • 1h 3min
Episode 9: Picking the Ties that Bind (with guest star RJ Theodore)
Author RJ Theodore joins us this week to talk about worldbuilding family structures!
Episode transcript here.
Oct 2, 2019 • 1h 2min
Episode 8: A Trip Over the Tongue
On today's episode we're finally getting around to naming some stuff, and that means we're talking about languages! Conlangs, language and culture, lots of tasty stuff!
The transcript document is here.
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Sep 18, 2019 • 1h 2min
Episode 7: Just Shake and Add Magic
Today we're talking about building magic systems into the world!
The transcript for this episode can be found here. (It's still in progress, so if you'd like to transcribe a couple minutes to help out your fellow World Builders, feel free! :D)
Sep 4, 2019 • 56min
Episode 6: An Interlude with Spreadsheets (with guest star Jenn Lyons!)
We're joined today by Jenn Lyons, author of THE RUIN OF KINGS, to talk about methods of organizing your worldbuilding! We give some cool recs for programs to use, and some of us admit to using more simple and chaotic methods of keeping everything in line.
The transcript of this episode is available here. Thank you so much to our amazing scribes who have volunteered their time to assist with this: Eunice, Kate, and C, you're amazing!!
Aug 22, 2019 • 59min
Episode 5: People in a Petri Dish
This week we're talking big questions about people, culture, population, and technology! Let's make some civilizations!
Read the transcript here!
Aug 7, 2019 • 54min
Episode 4: Civilization and You! (with guest star Fonda Lee!)
This week we are joined by the amazing author Fonda Lee to talk about the basics of creating civilizations for your fantasy world!
Read the transcript here!
Check out the map here!
Jul 24, 2019 • 1h
Episode 3: As Narrated by David Attenborough
We're talking about building flora and fauna for the world! Come get some biomes!
Transcript available here.
Jul 10, 2019 • 53min
Episode 2: Terra Firma and the Firmament
On today's episode, we're talking about drawing maps and creating solar systems, and we begin to build our very own world from the... ahem... ground up. ;)
Transcript for Episode 2
[Note, November 2022: The links mentioned in this podcast are, alas! lost to the vagaries of time. We apologize for any inconvenience.]
Jun 26, 2019 • 47min
Episode 1: Playing God In Your Spare Time
Welcome to the premiere of Worldbuilding for Masochists, a new podcast that is exactly what it says on the tin! Today we try valiantly to answer the question, "Gosh... when it comes to worldbuilding, where do you even start?"
Transcription:
The transcript for this episode can be found here. Huge thanks to our scribal team!
