Poster’s Elbow (Transcript)
[Full Episode Here] Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. I’m Raquel S. Benedict, the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction. In this episode, we’re talking about...
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We’re all online–excessively online–far too much of the time. For writers, social media can be a valuable tool for networking and self-promotion. But is it necessary? And can the drawbacks outweigh...
View ArticleI Dream of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Transcript)
Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. I’m Raquel s Benedict, the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction. Coziness. Comfort. Hygge. We all enjoy it. Maybe we have a...
View ArticleI Dream of Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Coziness. Comfort. Hygge. We all enjoy it. Maybe we have a favorite comfort food, or a favorite piece of comfort media, or a favorite comfort character. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Sometimes...
View ArticleBoast in the Shell: Why AI Art is Overhyped – Transcript
[Listen to episode here] [00:00:00] Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. I’m Raquel Benedict, the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction. In this episode, we are...
View ArticleBoast in the Shell: Why AI Art is Overhyped
In this episode, we’re talking about artificial intelligence. Not the sympathetic kind played by Haley Joel Osment, not the mean but hot kind like SHODAN, but the kind that generates content. There’s...
View ArticleSeize the Press Transcript
Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud, the only podcast that helps you write good. I’m Raquel Benedict, the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction. In this episode, we’re talking to Jonny Pickering, founder...
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In this episode, we talk to Jonny Pickering, founder and editor-in-chief of Seize the Press. [Transcript here] About Rite Gud: Raquel S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science...
View ArticleThe Way to Write the Other is Not To Make the Other Into You (Transcript)
[Listen here] Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write Good. I’m Rs Benedict. That’s my cat Harley, the whiniest cat in speculative fiction. Okay. Okay. Let me throw it. I’ll throw...
View ArticleThe Way to Write the Other is Not To Make the Other Into You
There’s a long tradition in Western literature of exoticizing other cultures, particularly the East and the Global South. And recently, there’s been a major effort to undo all that–to de-exoticize the...
View ArticleMore Bad Writing Advice (Transcript)
R.S. Benedict 0:00 Welcome to Rite Gud. The only podcast that helps you write good. I’m R.S. Benedict, The Most Dangerous Woman in speculative fiction. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of writing advice...
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Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of writing advice out there that doesn’t help you write good. In fact, it helps you write pretty bad. And some...
View ArticleFite Gud (Transcript)
While you studied writing, I studied the blade. While you were having critique sessions, I mastered the parry. Well, you wasted your days at writing workshops in pursuit of sentence craft. I cultivated...
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While you studied writing, I studied the blade. While you were having critique sessions, I mastered the parry. While you wasted your days at writing workshops in pursuit of sentence craft I cultivated...
View ArticleTouch Grass (Transcript)
Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud, the only podcast that helps you write good. I’m R. S. Benedict, the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction. We’ve talked about bodies on this podcast, but today, we’re...
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A sense of place can ground your story, or create a mood, or give it something really unique. Unfortunately, in an era in which we are all way too online, it’s easy to neglect this, and stick our...
View Article(Don’t) Gotta Go Fast – Transcript
RS: Welcome to Rite Gud, the only podcast that helps you write good. I’m R. S. Benedict. The average American consumes 100, 000 words a day. But what do we retain? What have we learned? We think that...
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The average American consumes 100,000 words a day. But what do we retain? What have we learned? We think that bigger is better, and more is better, but what about quality over quantity? Will reading...
View ArticleEat Gud
Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. I’m RS Benedict, and I’ll be your waiter this evening. On tonight’s menu, we’re starting off with a discussion about the lack of physicality...
View ArticleEat Gud (Transcript)
Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud, the podcast that helps you write good. I’m R. S. Benedict, and I’ll be your waiter this evening. On tonight’s menu, we’re starting off with a discussion about the lack of...
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