We say the F word a lot in this episode. Formatting, not fuck.

Back by unpopular demand, it's the On Writing (and Fanfiction) Podcast! In this episode, Zoey and Jake talk word counts, page counts, reading and writing preferences with regards to shortform and longform (fan)fiction, and the pros and cons of a posting schedule. Plus, Jake has finally scuttled forth from his fish tank and gotten a proper microphon…

On this episode, Zoey and Jake follow up their discussion from last episode on how to begin a story with how to end one! They discuss good foreshadowing, why predictability isn't necessarily a bad thing, how hard it really is to handle twist endings effectively, whether or not to resolve all your story's threads by the end, and what kinds of ending…

I'm gonna run out of ways to start these eventually. But that's not today so welcome! On this episode of the OWFFPOD, Zoey and Jake talk about one of the hardest parts of a story to write—the beginning. We ask where inspiration comes from, we talk about what makes a beginning good and bad, about picking the right tense for your story, and we cap it…

The prodigal podcast returns! The prodcast? P(r)od(igal)cast? WHATEVER WE'RE BACK While we were gone, we scoured the Umbral Plains for one who possessed the ancestral knowledge of writing such that we might cast aside the veil concealing the eldritch authorial truth. Meaning we found some sucker more qualified than us to be on the podcast. Which br…

Our first guest appearance! We're in the big leagues now, fellas. On this episode, we welcome Zoey's good friend and fellow fanfiction aficionado Catherine, who's here to round out our writerly expertise with an incredibly important point of view—the reader's! Welcome Catherine with us as we talk about what keeps us reading a story, what stops us f…

It's a new year, and with it, a new episode of the On Writing (And Fanfiction) Podcast! 2021 is already looking up because there's nothing it can do short of radioactive gibbons with machine guns to be worse than [REDACTED], so let's kick things off with some stimulating discussion, eh? This episode is all about comments—how important they are to l…

Characterization! Research! Media Analysis! All the things you should do—and a whole lot you shouldn't—on Episode 6 of the On Writing (And Fanfiction) Podcast. This episode is all about characterization and all the ingredients you need to spice yours up so that your writing and characters are as authentic as they can be. Characterization is a rich …

Episode 5 of the Tangentcast is live, and with it, our proper foray into fandom half of this podcast! Kept you waiting, huh? Join us as we cover some basic definitions of a few common fandom terms, talk about the Work-in-Progress and the difficulties of sticking with them, and ponder the frightening and repulsive frailty of our own mortality. Got a…

Zoey's laptop is back from the hospital, and with it, a new episode! Thanks for waitin', folks. This week, Jake is giddy with nerd excitement as we talk about the wizardly wordsmithery of poetry, and how it can be a great tool for the emergent writer to really get a hold of figurative language. Stick around at the end for a reading of Peter Redgrov…

The Ramblecast, coming to listenholes near you (yes, you). On this episode, Zoey and Jake cover the upper half of Zoey's Hierarchy of Writerly Needs; cohesive story structure, the infamous show-don't-tell, and the incorporation of overarching themes in your writing. Got a question for us? Contact us at OWFFpod@gmail.com! Follow us on Instagram @owf…

On this episode of the dweebcast, Zoey and Jake extoll the virtues of spelling, punctuation, dialogue formatting and editing, and talk about the ways in which going against the grammatical grain can improve your writing. They also open the episode with Jake being wrong, something which will surely not become a pattern. Got a question for us? Contac…

In On Writing and Fanfiction's inaugural episode, Zoey and Jake begin with the important questions: why is writing fanfiction important? What are some things a writer should avoid doing in their work? What qualifications do we have to even be talking about this with any degree of authority in the first place? Has Stephen King written fanfiction bef…