How To Start a Magazine for Fun and Absolutely No Profit
Writer, podcaster, editor, and mall explorer Kurt Schiller joins us to discuss how he started his magazine, Blood Knife. Since its inception a few short years ago, Blood Knife has become a notable...
View ArticleWriting Beyond the End of History
Sci-fi and fantasy are imaginative genres that can show us new, impossible worlds. Sometimes, they offer us escape from our dreary lives. But there’s one thing contemporary SFF can’t seem to escape....
View ArticleNo Plot Just Vibes
In fiction, a plot is the sequence of connected events that make up a narrative. These events aren’t random things that happen–there’s a relationship between them, usually a causative one. Generally,...
View ArticleWomen Writers of the Pulp Era
Women have always been in science fiction, ever since Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, but far too many of them have been forgotten or at least underappreciated. In this episode of Rite Gud, we are...
View ArticleDiverse Sci-Fi/Fantasy of the 20th Century
In part two of our discussion on diverse sci-fi and fantasy, we turn our attention to the later half of the 20th century, when the field opened up a little more to BIPOC and queer authors. This is a...
View ArticleSci-fi and Fantasy for Peasants
Science fiction and fantasy can imagine many things–impossible worlds, unthinkable technology, fantastic creatures, magic, gods and monsters–but for some reason, a lot of SFF authors have a hard time...
View ArticleSci-fi and Fantasy for Peasants — Transcript
Rite Gud – S02E07 “Sci-fi and Fantasy for Peasants” Podcast: @RiteGud Host: @benedict_rs Guest: @these_qualia Producer: @KittySneezes Transcript by: @bee_blackburn [00:00:00] [♪ Rite Gud intro theme ♪]...
View ArticleHow We Read and Why – Transcript
How We Read and Why [00:00:00] Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud. The only podcast that helps you write good. I’m Raquel s Benedict, the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction. This is a writing...
View ArticleHow We Read and Why
[Full Transcript Here] This is a writing podcast, so we talk a lot about reading. Most of the time, we’ve been discussing what we read, but today we’re going to discuss how we read and why we read....
View ArticleThe Right’s War on Libraries – Transcript
Raquel: Welcome to Rite Gud, the only podcast that helps you write good. I’m Raquel S Benedict, the most dangerous woman in speculative fiction. As part of this podcast’s dedication to sparking...
View ArticleThe Right’s War on Libraries
As part of this podcast’s dedication to sparking controversial, attention-getting discourse, we have a new piping hot take for you here today: libraries are good. But in this country, libraries are...
View ArticleTalking about Comics with Wendy Xu
In this episode, we’re going a little outside of our comfort zone to talk about visual media: in this case, sequential art, or graphic novels, or comics. Joining us for this episode is comics artist...
View ArticleTalking about Comics with Wendy Xu – 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. In this episode, we’re going a little outside of our comfort...
View ArticleWriting TTRPGs – Transcript
[Listen to this episode] 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 are taking a...
View ArticleWriting TTRPGs
In this episode, we’re taking a look at a rather different kind of writing: writing for games. Our guest, Caitlin Fortier, makes TTRPGs–that’s tabletop role playing games–and she’s going to tell us...
View ArticleGentrified Horror
Transcript here. A lot of horror stories start like this: a family moves into a suspiciously cheap dreamhouse. Over the course of the story, the house reveals its sinister nature–voices whisper...
View ArticleGentrified Horror – Transcript
Listen to this 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. A lot of horror stories start...
View ArticleFilthy Lucre
[Transcript] In our culture, it’s taboo to talk about money. You don’t ask another person how much they make, or how much their possessions cost, or how much they have in the bank. That’s especially...
View ArticleFilthy Lucre – 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. In our culture, it’s taboo to talk about money. You don’t ask...
View ArticleSusan Sontag’s Notes on Sleepaway Camp
[Transcript here] Many things in the world have not been named, and many things, even if they have been named, have never been described. One of these is the sensibility, unmistakably modern—a variant...
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