The First Rule of Write Club
The First Rule of Write Club
Episodes
Episodes of The First Rule of Write Club
Mark All
Kat and Oscar review The Handmaid’s Tale. Mostly the book.
Regina discusses failure, success, and fear of putting your work out into the world.
Oscar and guest host Benny review the new movie War for the Planet of the Apes, focusing in particular on how the writing weasels out of the moral dilemmas it sets up. This episode contains spoilers.
Katherine, Oscar, and two special guests discuss Hemingway’s writing tips.
We review Baby Driver, the new movie by Edgar Wright.
Jessie and Oscar welcome special guest and friend of the show Tom Anderson for a bad conversation about dumb things.
We talk about genre – what we like, what we don’t, and how it affects our writing.
Katherine stands alone, and reads the first scene of her novel.
Katherine and Regina turn to the Tarot to help Kat brainstorm her new characters.
Picking up where we left off in Episode 10, we dig into Jessie’s current project, a Supernatural fic, and Kat’s, a novel about a world powered by spirit energy.
Regina’s at a baseball game, so the rest of us talk about the TV show Supernatural. How does it get things right, and how does it stumble?
Regina hosts as Oscar and Dusa start getting into the details of their personal projects.
Regina, Katherine, and Dusa talk about character flaws.
Dusa, Katherine and Oscar discuss Elmore Leonard’s 10 Rules for Good Writing, and in the process get upset.
Oscar and Benny talk about magic systems. Warning: heavy Lord of the Rings content.
We talk about worldbuilding, Harry Potter, and Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Well-Maintained Road.
Is poetry good, or is it bad? Happy National Poetry Month!
We discuss our plans for April’s Camp Nano, and Regina tries to hire a hit man.
How much of yourself do you put in your characters? How much is too much?
My brother Benny consents to an hour of brainstorming on my current novel project.
Planning versus pantsing: the eternal question. I hope you like vague answers.
Regina talks about the process of writing spec scripts for TV, and we look for instructive parallels with fanfiction.
In this episode we discuss the format, introduce the hosts, and talk about what we’ll be working on.
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