Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify CONTENT WARNING: Some loud noises, including explosions, animal roars, and screams On the shores of the sea, two friends contemplate how we came to be and where we’re going next. Written by Virginia Spotts and produced by Wray Van Winkle, with transcription by Virginia Spotts. This episode was … More HOTC – Audio Experiment 02: Home
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of the threat of a school shooting, homophobia, transphobia, and abuse, creative burnout, and mental health struggles In the final episode of this season, Wray Van Winkle and Virginia Spotts sit down with four incredible writers from the audio fiction community and to answer the … More HOTC – Episode 04: Why keep writing?
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify CONTENT WARNING: Discussion of creative burnout, brief mentions of childhood trauma On today’s episode, Wray Van Winkle and Virginia Spotts sit down with four incredible writers from the audio fiction community and unpack the dichotomies between plotting and pantsing, art and science, structure and spontaneity. Newt Schottelkotte (they/them) … More HOTC – Episode 03: Art and science
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify CONTENT WARNING: Strong elements of existential dread, paranoia, unreality, and coughing sound effects In a dream it was also that he came by his name of Kuranes, for when awake he was called by another name… Written and produced by Wray Van Winkle, with transcription by Virginia Spotts. … More HOTC – Audio Experiment 01: Celephaïs
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify CONTENT WARNING: Mentions of drug use, discussions of historical homophobia, transphobia, and censorship, mental health struggles and the COVID-19 pandemic On today’s episode, Wray Van Winkle and Virginia Spotts sit down with four incredible writers from the audio fiction community to discuss their unique paths to writing their … More HOTC – Episode 02: The road to writing
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify CONTENT WARNING: Brief discussions of depression and ADHD Welcome back to the Homestead on the Corner Writing Podcast! Wray Van Winkle and Virginia Spotts return after a 2+ year absence for a new mini-season of interviews with other audio fiction writers and creators, starting with a reintroduction to … More HOTC – Episode 01: The end goal of creativity is not perfection
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, we address the paradox of showing genuine change in the third act: if true character is only revealed through action in conflict, then how do you demonstrate the completion of a character arc after the main conflict ends? Learn how to … More Lesson 27: Act 3 – Restoration
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, the protagonist reaches the final, and perhaps most difficult, threshold in the journey: the return to the ordinary world. Learn how and why characters must come home at the end of their arcs, how to use this moment most effectively for … More Lesson 26: Act 3 – Return
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, we arrive in the final act of the story, and discuss how and why the resolution should not just be an afterthought to your climax. Learn how to create a resolution that serves your reader, concludes your story’s plot lines satisfyingly, … More Lesson 25: Act 3 – Resolution
Listen on Apple Podcasts Listen on Spotify Listen on Google Podcasts In this episode, Act 2 comes to an explosive end, as the effects of the crisis decision ripple out into a final confrontation between protagonist and antagonist. Learn how to use the climax’s connection to the inciting incident to show character growth, deliver on … More Lesson 24: Act 2 – Climax
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