Happy Halloween! That's the one with
the fireworks and red, white, and blue Jello desserts, right?
No, wait. Wrong holiday.
It's the one with...candy, yes? Yes.
There's chocolate? Chocolate bunnies!
...no bunnies? Huh. Okay, give me a
hint.
Pumpkins? Never heard of them. Let me
search Wikipedia.
OH, GOT IT. Halloween.
Okay, yeah, I remember this one. This is the one where kids knock on
the front door and then it's really awkward when I they can see me
checking who they are in the window. I've never actually opened my
front door for anybody other than the UPS guy, and these kids always
seem to show up at dinner time. I don't know them, and I'm pretty
sure the "No Solicitation" sticker is still on the front
door, so I just let their inherent short attention spans take care of
the matter.
Anyways,
who cares about Halloween when you can celebrate NaNoWriMo Eve! Tons
of people all over the world giving over a whole month to crank out
50,000 words! Some of those words will turn into published stories!
The rest of them will... well, they won't do much, but hey, still an
accomplishment, right? I'd rather shuffle around a .doc file than
scoop the remains of a rotten Jack-o-Lantern off my porch.
There
are plenty of people who pilot NaNoWriMo by the seat of their pants,
but perhaps you want a little leg up on your word count. Might I
suggest Inside Creative Writing.
The kids wanted me to give them candy? Now you're just making stuff up.
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Host Brad Reed is a writer who writes and then talks to other writers who write and together they talk about writing. Inside Creative Writing has had topics like the Snowflake Method, "defamiliarization", when to use adverbs, and speaking with authors on how they captures moments that spark stories. Reed leads each episode well and engages the guests so that they willingly share their secrets to success and provide insight to the listening audience.
Inside Creative Writing is less straight up instructive than Writing Excuses, but there is still plenty to enjoy. The tone is friendly and conversational and it gives writers a chance to find a new POV on their craft (see what I did there? EH?).
Content Rating: Clean and grammatically sound. These folks really know where to put a preposition at.
Average Episode Length: A sample of five episodes gives an average time of about 37 minutes. The episodes don't feel too short or too long, each topic gets a proper amount of time.
Drinking Game: Oh...well, gosh! I just can't think of any way to tie the craft of writing, and writers themselves, to drinking. Do writers even drink? Surely they perform their art stone-sober, to reflect the gravity of creating the written word. No, no, I don't think I can come up with any classical authors to which you might mimic their drinking patterns and/or choices in alcohol. Gosh.
Go get some tea, I suppose?
Release Schedule: Weekly! Yay!
Unintentionally Good Part: All the picture of the host that I've seen have him wearing one of those newsboy caps, which I find to be a good fashion choice.
Unintentionally Bad Part: If you are a writer, you will feel guilty that you're listening to this instead of writing.
Unrelated rating: Five people pretending to write at Starbucks out of five.
BONUS CONTENT: Seriously, there is a thing called NaNoWriMo and it starts tomorrow. Join up and prove you can write a novel! It's a good bit of fun and at the very least you can be a snot like me and read Tumblrs that mock people on the forums.
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