NEW EPISODE OF BAD LIT FRIENDS IS UP!

Wherein we talk about writing rules and why every single one of them is complete trash. (not really)

Bad Lit Friends is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts!
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Thanks Pam! 😍

HEY #WritingCommunity, NEW EPISODE OF BAD LIT FRIENDS IS UP!!!!

Coming to you live (recorded!) from the RMFW #ColoradoGold conference, held this last weekend. And we're talking about--DUH!--conferences! Have a listen wherever you get your podcasts!

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For next week's Episode 10 (!!!) of Bad Lit Friends, we're asking you: which writing rule makes you irrationally angry?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/qRgAqk/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Show, don't tell
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/qRgAqk/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kill your darlings
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/qRgAqk/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Write what you know
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/qRgAqk/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NO ADVERBS -- NEIN!

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Hey #ColoradoGold people! Say hi if you see us this weekend at the #RMFW Colorado Gold Conference! We bite, but only if you ask nicely!
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BREAKING NEWS

STOP EVERYTHING

New ep of BAD LIT FRIENDS is up! This week, Rylan, Kirk and Meagan talk writer's block (it's real) and how to unlock it, why criticism of performative bookishness tastes a tiny bit like misogyny, and how Faulkner comes off like Elle Woods, but not in a good way.

We'd like to thank all our hosts, @rytingwithcats.bsky.social, @kirkrafferty.com and @thecrumpet.bsky.social for their sterling service. 🫡 What it's in service of, we're not sure, but we appreciate it nonetheless.

@kirkrafferty.com, @thecrumpet.bsky.social, and @rytingwithcats.bsky.social will be at the @rmfwriters.bsky.social Colorado Gold Writers Conference on September 26-28! Please say hi if you see us! Please. We need the validation.

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New episode of BAD LIT FRIENDS!!!! 💥🔥💥🔥💦

We tackle the dreaded synopsis! Also, more on the Anthropic settlement, and how fanfic is influencing tradpub.

Go get it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts!

open.spotify.com/episode/4wio...

#WritingCommunity #amquerying

Rylan is back! 🔥❤️💥

Episode 7 of BAD LIT FRIENDS drops tomorrow, wherever you get your #podcasts!

Part 2 of our #amquerying series: The Synopsis.

Also, more on the Anthropic settlement and how fanfic is influencing tradpub.

BYOB! (Bring your own books! Or beer! Or bath gel! We're not your boss!)
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Episode 7 OF BAD LIT FRIENDS (@badlitfriends.bsky.social) is wrapped! Rylan joins us as co-host, synopsis writing tips from Kirk, & my rant about how Big 5 publishing cannibalizes folk art. Plus my graduate dissertation on the Teletubbies and MOAR Anthropic settlement stuff. Dropping 9/15! #writesky

New Bad Lit Friends is up, wherever you get your podcasts!

In this episode, we talk about SQUIRRELS! No, that's a lie. We talk about query letters. Also the super crappy Anthropic settlement. (yeah, we said it because we're edgy!)
#WritingCommunity #amquerying

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What happens when our producer is out of town and we think we can handle the pod on our own?

Did we talk query letters? The Anthropic settlement?

Did it take our producer 11 HOURS to edit our rambling thoughts? Um...

Find out tomorrow when a very messy Episode 6 of BAD LIT FRIENDS drops!

🎧 NEW Episode of Bad Lit Friends is up!

Meagan & guest co-host Rylan dive into the writing contest industrial complex: real path to publication or just a pricey detour? Plus spilled tea and more! Available now, wherever you get your #podcasts! #WritingCommunity
open.spotify.com/episode/7dW2...

Oh, and a content warning: we discuss the SA allegations at Sinners and Stardust (although not in detail).

Also, @thecrumpet.bsky.social was having some issues with a treasonous mic, so we'll make sure it's lined up against a wall and replaced with a new one for next episode.

New episode of Bad Lit Friends has dropped! 💥

We all do it. We compare our journeys to those of other writers, and it's hard on the soul. Do we have a solution? No, we do not. But we sure do like to pontificate.

Ep 4 of Bad Lit Friends is available wherever you get your podcasts!
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New Bad Lit Friends (@badlitfriends.bsky.social) episode—our FOURTH!—dropping in the morning! We talk the perils, pleasures, and pffffffft of comparing your writing to others, @kirkrafferty.com sounds like he knows what he's talking about, and quite frankly I'm unhinged at times.

Bad Lit Friends Ep 4 will be a wreck but we know you love that. We discuss: how writing isn’t like knitting & should be like flying a plane; letting the hate flow through you; appalling behavior at writing conferences; & authors who actively despise their readers. #badlitfriends #writingcommunity

This sounds... ominous. Or like Meagan's been drinking vodka tonics (splash of Rose's and a twist of lime!) again.

Pray for Bad Lit Friends, the podcast that is trying to rein in one of its co-host's pretentious tendencies. #writesky #writingcommunity #thoughtsandprayers

Bad Lit Friends episode 3 is up!

We talk about the Pubtips subreddit, and quite frankly we're disturbed at the lack of slendermen. (I'm being told that's a different subreddit—never mind!)

Also, hotgos and hot takes: do you even need an editor?

#WritingCommunity

open.spotify.com/episode/2pad...

omg

wait

wut

new ep of Bad Lit Friends tomorrow morning?

NEW EP OF BAD LIT FRIENDS TOMORROW MORNING!!!!!

NEW WEBSITE WHO DIS

badlitfriends.com

And that's the ONLY reason. He really, really wanted to do the show.

Not even kidding, we got Taylor Swift to join us on our new podcast episode coming out Monday. TAYLOR FREAKING SWIFT!

No, of course this is a lie. You knew that, right? But how cool would that be?

New episode Monday! With absolutely no TAYLOR SWIFT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!
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