Rite Gud

This isn’t a podcast for total beginners. We’re going to assume that you know what plot structure is, what a protagonist is, where ideas come from, and how to use a semicolon. This is a podcast for people who can already write okay, but want to do better.

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Update frequency: every 19 days
Average duration: 65 minutes
Episodes: 99
Years Active: 2019 - 2025

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Losers, Failures and Fuck-Ups

Everybody loves a winner–either a hyper competent alpha male who always saves the day, or maybe a relatable underdog who beats the odds and comes out on top. But in this episode of Rite Gud, we’re pa…

01:12:49 | Thu 18 Jan 2024

Writing About Disability

In this episode, we’re talking about physical disability. How do we portray disabilities in fiction? How should we portray them? What are we doing right? What are we doing wrong?

James McPherson joi…

01:00:08 | Thu 28 Dec 2023

Toothless Vampires

There’s a trend in contemporary SFF to soften or humanize monsters. We have nice vampires who don’t kill people, sad ghosts who don’t torment the living, succubi who don’t fuck anyone. Some people f…

01:10:23 | Thu 07 Dec 2023

Eat 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 physical…

01:27:38 | Thu 16 Nov 2023

(Don’t) Gotta Go Fast

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 …

01:04:58 | Thu 26 Oct 2023

Touch Grass

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 ch…

00:58:21 | Thu 05 Oct 2023

Fite Gud

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 cultivate…

00:47:54 | Thu 14 Sep 2023

More Bad Writing Advice

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…

01:11:23 | Thu 24 Aug 2023

The 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 t…

01:11:24 | Thu 03 Aug 2023

Seize the Press!

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 Fict…

01:00:19 | Thu 13 Jul 2023

Boast 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’…

01:06:17 | Thu 22 Jun 2023

I 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. Sometime…

01:01:36 | Thu 01 Jun 2023

Poster’s Elbow

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 …

01:25:14 | Thu 11 May 2023

Orc Gusano

A few months ago, we read Marge Piercy’s 1976 novel Woman on the Edge of Time for our book club. The main character of the novel is Mexican-American, and the author is a non-Latinx white woman, and …

01:10:01 | Thu 20 Apr 2023

Susan 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 vari…

00:37:07 | Sat 01 Apr 2023

Filthy Lucre

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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 especiall…

01:09:45 | Thu 30 Mar 2023

Gentrified 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 unset…

00:59:40 | Thu 09 Mar 2023

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