Oct 2022

From the creator of Alice Isn't Dead: Unlicensed

From Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, creators of the genre defining fiction podcasts Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead, comes the new LA noire Unlicensed, starring Molly Quinn, Lusia Strus, and T.L Thompson. Coming November 10, only to Audible. Subscribe now here: https: ... Show More

2m 16s

Jul 2021

Excerpt - The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink

From New York Times bestselling author Joseph Fink (and creator of Welcome to Night Vale and Alice Isn’t Dead) comes a wickedly fun middle grade novel about a Halloween-obsessed girl named Esther Gold, who goes out trick-or-treating for one last year, only to find her town under ... Show More

36m 21s

Feb 2021

Alice Isn't Dead returns for one night only!

We released the final episode of Alice Isn’t Dead in 2018, and boy has some stuff happened since then. One of the things that has happened is that all the folks involved in making Alice Isn’t Dead have missed those characters and that world. So we are bringing it back, for one ni ... Show More

2m 52s

Mar 2019

Start With This: Idea to Execution

A brand new podcast from Night Vale Presents, and the first podcast Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor have made together since Welcome to Night Vale: Start With This, a podcast gone creativity playground designed to put your ideas in motion. Each episode centers around a topic from ... Show More

35m 10s

Mar 2019

Idea to Execution

There’s natural talent, and then there’s practice. You can only control that last bit. Joseph and Jeffrey talk building habits of creation so that starting projects gets into your muscle memory. Consume: Check out Jonathan Mann’s Song A Day Youtube channel. Jonathan’s been writin ... Show More

37m 51s

Mar 2019

Start With This: Trailer

The creators of Welcome to Night Vale Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink believe the only bad writing is not writing. Start With This is a podcast gone creativity playground designed to put your ideas in motion. Each episode centers around a topic from world building, to opening line ... Show More

4m 24s

Aug 2019

I Have an Idea for a Podcast

The heart of a good podcast isn’t in expensive mics or a nice studio— it’s in the idea. We talk through four litmus tests to test the strength of your idea: specificity, novelty, practicality, and repeatability. Honing in on these elements will help you uncover what’s exciting ab ... Show More

41m 2s

Sep 2019

Anxiety

Have you ever had a big deadline and all of a sudden you have to listen to that new audiobook? In this episode, we talk about how anxiety about your writing can lead to moments like this. Then we discuss ways to motivate yourself from steering into the skid, to doing achievable t ... Show More

38m 40s

Dec 2020

As It Happens

Celebrating the act of daily creation with Jonathan Mann. CONSUME: Go listen to more of Jonathan Mann’s podcast “As It Happens” CREATE: Start with the same basic image as Jonathan: the growing cloud of space debris around earth. Write a 100-200 word piece about the space debris. ... Show More

29m 11s

Jun 2020

Narrative Structure

What is the shape of your narrative? CONSUME: “17776 Football” by Jon Bois https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football CREATE: Write a 100 word story with a beginning, middle and end. Write another 100 word story with completely different characters and completely different action. ... Show More

34m 25s

Jun 2020

Negative Space

What's there that's not there? CONSUME: “Dear Committee Members” by Julie Schumaker CREATE: Set a timer for 15 minutes. Create a character (a person, a place or a thing, really. Doesn’t have to be a human being.) And write a list of everything they do not have, everything they do ... Show More

31m 12s

May 2023

17. Celle qui rêve de devenir écrivain : Réécriture, construction d’univers et développement des personnages

À travers des enregistrements spontanés, je vous invite à explorer avec moi mon univers créatif, autour de l’élaboration de mes projets d’écriture. Pas à pas, je partage avec vous mes humeurs, mes réflexions, les problématiques que je rencontre, les questions et les doutes qui m’ ... Show More

32m 32s

Jul 2021

Why You Need to Document More and Create Less | GVTV Classic

To tune in to my NEW podcast--Props & Drops: For Apple Podcast listeners, click here to FOLLOW the podcast. For Spotify listeners, click here to FOLLOW the podcast. If your podcast platform isn’t listed above, here are all the other platforms where Props & Drops plays: https://li ... Show More

26m 8s