Since I’ve taken on the gig of managing editor at Escape Pod, I’ve been relearning a lot of things about being an editor that I had forgotten in the time since closing th Fortean Bureau. I’ve been thinking a lot about rejection letters, and rejection in general, but not from my usual perspective as a […]
Archive for June 2009
Drabblecast 120: Featuring Me!
Drabblecast is one of the quirkier, cooler podcasts out there, run by the genius that is Norm Sherman. His music tracks are absolutely awesome. He guest hosted on Escape Pod a while back and threw down a phat “pimp my satellite” track that has to be heard. Anyway, a couple of my pieces from The Daily […]
On Writing Motivation
Quaero_verum asks: You’ve probably already written about 1,000 posts on it already, but motivation is my sore spot at the moment. As in, “sit thy butt down and just write!” Also, when I do write, I sit and stare at the blank white screen for a lonnnng time. I am finding it hard to even churn […]
What Is a Podcastable Story?
Greg Van Eekhout asks: Thoughts on what kinds of stories translate well to podcasts and what kinds don’t? First of all, full disclaimer. I am the managing editor at Escape Pod, the science fiction audio podcast. I’ve been doing this job for about 3 or 4 months now, and I am by no means an expert […]
