I spent way, way too long searching for some half-remembered lines about art, and the value of creating art during a disaster. I ended up down a rabbit hole of ableist assumptions and statements that honestly drove me to drink …
Category: Audio Dramatic

5 Strategies for Enticing Audiences to Try Fiction Podcasts
When we’re discussing the hurdles facing podcasting as a whole, the buzzword “discoverability” gets thrown around without a ton of specification. The truth is that podcasting has problems with discovery on multiple levels, starting with the macroview and issues like …
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#ShowYourWork with Morgan Givens: Flyest Fables
Morgan Givens is the creator of Flyest Fables, a hopeful young adult podcast about a magical storybook that travels from child to child to help provide comfort, support, and knowledge in their time of need. It is specifically geared towards …

The Need to Foster Community Growth, Novices, and More Stories
When we shift from the onset of a new or novel medium, or method of expression, we build upon the works and theories that came before us, gaining a lot of ground when we start creating from that collective knowledge …
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2019: A Retrospective
It feels like it’s been ten years since I started Audio Dramatic, when really it’s been almost two. Granted, it feels like it’s been ten years since January 2019, and the slowly resulting white streak in my hair agrees. Whether …

Spotlight: Rose Drive’s “Give Me Liberty” is Cinematic, Terrifying Genius
There will be spoilers for Rose Drive in this spotlight review. I highly recommend listening first. The word “cinematic” should not be used lightly for an audio-based medium; it is linked tightly with sweeping musical scores against a visual backdrop. …
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The Magic of Microfiction
In a world that moves so fast all the time, and where the consumption of media has become a constant barrage of options with little opportunity to sit down and savor (or at least, feel like you have the opportunity, …

Fiction as Activist and Escapist
Not only are people in the United States creating and participating in more protests, the largest protests in American history are happening right now–in the US, and in the world, as witnessed on March 15 of this year when 1.4 million students across 123 countries walked …

A Brief Overview of -punk Genres in Fiction Podcasts
If you’ve been on the internet at all recently, you’ve probably witnessed the wave of discussion on the game Cyberpunk 2077 (if you haven’t been, tread carefully while Googling, it’s a minefield). Crucially, there’s been a lot of very hot …
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The Subversion and Reclamation of Tropes are Both Rebellions
The word “trope” has come to indicate a literary or rhetorical device or motif in creative works, usually ones that propel plot, character development, or fictional design. This can be something as (relatively) harmless as Love At First Sight, a …
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