Worldbuilding for Masochists
worldbuildingformasochists
A podcast by three fantasy authors who love to overcomplicate their writing lives and want to help you do the same.
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Dec 25, 2019 • 58min
Episode 14: Have Yourself A Merry Little Something
Happy Holidays, dear listeners! This week, we're talking about worldbuilding holidays, and we giggle pretty much the entire time!
Transcript is available here. Blessings upon the heads of our wonderful scribes!
Dec 11, 2019 • 58min
Episode 13: And Now A Reading From The Sacred Text... (feat. Tasha Suri)
On this week's episode, we're joined by our glamorous guest, Tasha Suri, author of EMPIRE OF SAND and REALM OF ASH to talk about worldbuilding religions!
Transcript is available here
Nov 27, 2019 • 1h 4min
Episode 12: The Play’s The Thing (feat. Cass Morris!)
We're joined this week by glamorous guest star Cass Morris, Shakespeare scholar and author of FROM UNSEEN FIRE, to talk about art and pop-culture in fantasy worldbuilding!
The transcript for this episode is here. Thank you to our excellent scribes!
Nov 13, 2019 • 57min
Episode 11: Threads of Life
Rowenna and Alex are going a bit feral this week to talk about fiber arts! Marshall Ryan Maresca asks some good smart questions!
The transcript for this episode is available here. Huge thanks to our scribes!!!
Oct 30, 2019 • 1h 1min
Episode 10: Death Becomes Us
On this very spooky episode of WFM, we're discussing the customs and practices surrounding death!
The transcript of this episode is available here. (HUGE THANKS to our wonderful scribes!!!)
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!
