ADWIT: The Audio Drama Writers' Independent Toolkit
Want there to be more good audio drama? Lindsay and Sarah do. Each episode, they'll discuss an aspect of audio drama, examples from current audio drama podcasts, and writing exercises so writers can play along. Join Sarah Golding and Lindsay Harris Friel on a voyage of discovery on the seas of audio drama podcasts.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 30
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Tying Up Loose Ends: Short Topics For Your Audio Drama Writing Practice
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Here are all the short yet important topics that don't justify their own episode, yet make a difference for writers. Ever wondered what truly stops creative wri…
The Power of Feedback: Transforming Your Audio Drama Through Table Reads
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Table reads are an essential tool for audio drama writers to hear their work aloud and gather feedback for improvement before production. The process helps iden…
Writer Tools of the Audio Drama Trade - Part Two
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Hello!
We continue our chat with...
- Brendon Connelly of Circles
- Emily Inkpen of Alternative Stories and The Dex Legacy
- Flloyd Kennedy of Am I Old Yet? and Baked Off…
Audio Drama Writing Software, Tools and Formatting: Won't Someone Protect the Widows and Orphans?
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The day a software developer creates software for audio drama scriptwriters that has BBC Radio Drama-style formatting, the option to include line numbers on the…
Mastering Character Dialogue: Beyond the Words
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Welcome to another jam packed episode of ADWIT with Lindsay Harris-Friel and Sarah Golding!
Dialogue is the lifeblood of audio drama, serving both the author's i…
Plot vs. Pants? Try The Skort Method of Audio Drama Script Craft.
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Sarah Golding and Lindsay Harris Friel dive into the great debate of audio drama writing: whether to meticulously outline your story or write by the seat of you…
Character Breakdowns That Jump Off the Page
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Sarah and Lindsay explore how to craft character breakdowns that genuinely serve audio drama production, focusing on vocal qualities and core characteristics ra…
From Idea to Outline: Make Your Audio Drama's Story Sustainable
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Ideas constantly surround us—emerging from single words, current events, or persistent questions. From Rajiv Joseph finding a newspaper article about a Bengal …
CALM WRITING
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Started
The blank page stares back at you. Your fingers hover uncertainly. That familiar anxiety creeps in—but what if there was a better way to begin?
Our lat…
ADWIT Returns for a Third Season
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ADWIT, The Audio Drama Writers' Independent Toolkit, returns for a third season! Sarah and Lindsay want to give you strategies and resources to write an audio d…
What Do Audio Drama Writers Want? Survey Analysis and Season 3 Forecast
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Ever wonder what happens to all those brilliant audio drama ideas that never make it past the "what if" stage?
After reviewing our listener survey (thank you to …
Ignite Your Storytelling Spark for 2024: How to Plan a Season or Story Arc, Plus Coming Attractions and The ADWIT Audience Survey
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Audio Drama Podfest, 11th Hour Audio Challenge, Small Cast Recommendations and a Sound Writing Exercise
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Where have Sarah and Lindsay been? Get ready for a quick update from ADWIT. Sarah brings you a helpful and less unwieldy than usual podcast conference for Audio…
Shove Off The Rocks of Writer's Block: Resources to Energize Your Audio Fiction Writing
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Lindsay's stuck in a rut. Sarah rows out to rescue her. Come along for a relaxing day at the beach, where we'll guide you through some resources to reignite yo…
Games Writers Play: Break Writers' Block with Cards and Other Games of Chance
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Visit the back room at a game cafe, where Sarah and Lindsay dig out a secret stash of games designed to help writers revisit best practices and gain perspective…
2022 Year In Review, Best New Audio Drama and Fiction Podcasts, Plans and Schemes for 2023
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Sarah gets Lindsay unstuck from the mud to celebrate many of the great audio drama podcast success stories of 2022 and make plans and schemes for 2023. It's bee…
Season 2 is coming soon
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Did you know that Buzzsprout has a dynamic content feature? It's true. Lindsay is testing it out right now. Here's the clip she tagged on in the post-roll to on…
Episode XII: Final Episodes
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What do writers and pilots have in common? Every time they go to work, they have to ask, "How do I land this thing now?" Join Sarah and Lindsay as they fly off …
Episode XI: Writing for Remote Recording
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Recording at a distance from your fellow audio drama artists is challenging. Lindsay and Sarah discuss some ways that writers can make scripts easier for voice …
Episode X: The Mystery Attribute
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What does audio drama do that other forms of art and media can't? How does it do it? What's the recipe for doing it? Join Sarah and Lindsay on a field trip as t…