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 …
The Interlaced Fate of Music and Humanity in the “Marsfall” Second Season Finale
Marsfall, a science-fiction podcast following a group of colonizers after they have landed on Mars, grapples with the subsequent horrors they have to face, both from within and from outside. The season two finale, “Chapter 17 – Chip”, witnesses an epic …
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Tips & Tricks for Fiction Podcasters
This article was created in the interest of supporting fiction podcast creators and producers, inspired by the work of Michelle Nickolaisen at Self-Taught & Solo, a resources website for solo and self-taught fiction podcasters (with a ton of handy tools …
How can we better deliver and receive critique?
Ma’ayan Plaut, from RadioPublic, wrote what I consider to be one of the best go-to articles for handling criticism, not just as a podcaster, but as a listener. In it, she doesn’t just give a list of do’s and don’ts, but she also …
“Going Through Hell with the People You Love”: An Interview with CARAVAN’s Tau Zaman
The Whisperforge’s newest audio fiction, CARAVAN, is a Weird West adventure where Samir (Sushant Adlankha) falls into a huge, deep canyon while camping with his best friend and ends up embroiled with bounty hunters and the supernatural. Created by Tau …
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First Look: Time-Traveling Train of “The 12:37” is Lively, Honest, and Queer
Usually, boarding the wrong train means you have to text your date to tell them you’re going to be late. Unfortunately for Nora Pacinelli, she’s probably going to be really late–or maybe perfectly on time–since she appears to have boarded …
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How can we practice radical empathy and self-care?
Digital spaces can sometimes get a bit noisy: a lot of ideas, thoughts, demands, needs, cries for help overlapping one another, and it can be hard to spend the emotional energy to sift through it, to know how to respond, …
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HartLife NFP’s “Unwell” is Both a Quiet Example and Direct Subversion of Midwestern Gothic
The creeping, quiet dread of the desolate Midwest—those distant areas where there’s nothing but corn, a gas station, and one ancient diner for miles—is the ideal setting for the terror and dysfunction that lives inside the Gothic family home, like …
How is narration in audio a useful tool?
The conversation surrounding the place of narration in audio fiction is one that has often plagued both my listening and my commentary, due to the huge divide on whether or not narration is a tool creators should still be using …
“The Response” Passes the Microphone to Disaster-Affected Communities
It isn’t easy to provide nuanced and descriptive reports on natural disasters without taking up a huge amount of time, but The Response manages, with apparent ease, to consider one angle to each of three natural disasters in the United …
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