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.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 65 minutes
- Episodes
- 99
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
How We Read and Why
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.…
01:16:50 |
Thu 15 Dec 2022
Sci-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…
01:07:06 |
Wed 23 Nov 2022
Diverse 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 …
02:04:29 |
Thu 03 Nov 2022
Women 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…
02:07:17 |
Thu 13 Oct 2022
No 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…
01:18:25 |
Wed 21 Sep 2022
Writing 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.…
00:52:02 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
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 v…
01:14:01 |
Thu 11 Aug 2022
Space Racism, Oppressed Wizards, and Other Marginalized Fantasy Allegories
Sci-fi, fantasy, and horror have always used speculative elements to express political ideas. HG Wells wrote War of the Worlds as a reaction to British colonialism, Tolkien explored his feelings abo…
01:08:26 |
Thu 21 Jul 2022
Writing Beyond Limits with Naben Ruthnum
Writers are often under pressure to follow rules, to write to the market, to carefully fit themselves into a safe cultural and commercial niche. You have to stick to one genre, and follow the standa…
01:02:12 |
Thu 30 Jun 2022
Internet Fiction
The internet is a huge part of our lives, but putting it into our fiction can be difficult. Many writers leave it out of their stories entirely. Others try to incorporate it into their work with awkw…
01:12:52 |
Thu 09 Jun 2022
Tales From the Slush Pile
When you send a short story to a magazine, it probably doesn’t go directly to the editor. Instead, it ends up in what’s called the slush pile–the pool of unsolicited work waiting for review. Who rev…
01:17:42 |
Thu 19 May 2022
Never Bring a Pen to a Sword Fight
They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but it is way easier to kill a guy with a sword than with a pen. We love art–it’s important to us and it’s meaningful and a worthwhile pursuit–but art a…
00:55:52 |
Thu 28 Apr 2022
A Rite Gud Minifesto
The changing of the guard in the early 2000s and the euthanization of the reactionary Sad Puppy movement in the early 2010s should have ushered in a new era of speculative fiction, an era of creativ…
00:06:39 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
A Tribute to Garth Marenghi, World’s Greatest Author/Visionary/Dreamweaver
In this very serious episode, we honor the most important writer of the 20th century, a man forty years ahead of his time: author, visionary, dreamweaver plus actor, Garth Marenghi. Literary connoiss…
00:25:03 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
More than the Sum of its Parts: Writing Beyond Tropes and Easter Eggs
When a book comes out, the publisher or the author will often promote it by describing it as a list of tropes, identities, and references. “Here’s my new novel, A Groan of Stone and Bone. It has enem…
01:16:47 |
Thu 17 Mar 2022
Rite Gud: A Bear-y Special Episode
We finally reached our Patreon subscriber goal, so you know what that means! It is time to talk about Bear, Marian Engel’s 1976 Canadian novel about a mousy librarian who falls in love with a bear. …
00:59:45 |
Thu 03 Feb 2022
A Guide to Squeecore
In 1936, anthropologist Ralph Linton said, “The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.” It’s difficult to see the medium that encompasses everything around you, especially when you’ve n…
01:13:03 |
Thu 13 Jan 2022
John Langan on Cosmic Horror
Bram Stoker Award-winning author John Langan joins us to talk about cosmic horror, his novel The Fisherman, upstate New York, how much money writers make (none), and how hard it is to get published w…
00:56:49 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
Cinderella Is Not a #Girlboss: The Problem With ‘Feminist’ Fairytale Adaptations
We like folklore, and we like feminism. So why not combine them? A lot of writers do. Feminist retellings of old fairy tales are very popular. We have girlboss Cinderella starting her own business, …
01:02:48 |
Thu 02 Dec 2021
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