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Episode 4: Kill My Setting
This week we delve into time and place! I consider where on the timeline of invention and technology we could set the scene as well as sharing some prose to illustrate the city in which we begin the story.
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Tomorrow’s episode - and definitely the appendices episode - has a little something to do with this.
Gorgeous artwork by one of my favourite illustrators who I discovered years ago, Sam Lyne - go check out his work.
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Me refusing to let go of ideas that do nothing for my story.
Here’s a little snippet of this week’s appendices episode. In this appendices episode we look at the real life mythologies of magic in human history and what we can draw on when creating magic in our own worlds.
You can listen to the rest on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Stitcher, or the podcatcher of your choice.
⚔️ Warrior Women by Yael Nathan ( @yaeln ) ⚔️
I came across these incredible images just after recording episode 1 of my podcast. They seemed to be sent by fate, depicting EXACTLY what I had just been talking about. Strong, varied, complex, capable women, of all different shapes and shades, appearing in fantasy roles usually dominated by men. So, I asked Yael if I could share them with you and she kindly said yes.
Please do yourself a favour and check out the entire collection of drawings on @ygramul instagram. I’m obsessed and will definitely be drawing inspiration from these images in my writing.
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✏️❌ MEET THE WRITER:
Hayden Rodgers is avidly creative, working across podcasting, writing, design, and theatre. He really likes tea and teal, he enjoys longs walks in nature, and he’s been a fan of the fantasy adventure genre ever since he was a wee lad. He’s always wanted to write a novel like the ones he grew up on, so now he’s making a podcast about it in the hope that it will help him succeed. He’s also writing this post right now and frankly doesn’t know why he’s gone with third person. Hello! It’s me, Hayden Rodgers. Listen to my podcast and help me with your feedback please.
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✏️❌ You’ve got to kill your darlings, as the writers’ adage goes, and Hayden Rodgers wants your help killing his. Are you a lover of the fantasy adventure novel? Have you ever wanted to add a class at Hogwarts or rearrange the nations of Middle Earth? Or perhaps redesign the Alethiometer or tweak the cosmos of the Discworld? Now’s your chance. Take on the role of editor in this interactive podcast and give feedback on a brand new world as it’s created while vicariously experiencing the writing process.
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Appendices: The Writer’s Guide To D&D
I’ve mentioned before how useful Dungeons and Dragons can be for worldbuilding. Well, in this episode I break down exactly why that is. Is it time you started playing D&D to help your writing?
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Worldbuild with Kill My Darlings. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Links on blog or as source.
Episode 9: Kill My Schools Of Magic
Its finally here! This week I go through the different schools of magic that exist in WIPworld and what that at all means. From Scapecasters to Spellweaves and muuuch more. Here’s a snippet from this week’s story, Potluck.Get your dose of fantasy and an original short story. Listen to Kill My Darlings wherever you listen to podcasts. Links on blog or as source ☝️
Some worldbuilding lessons we can we learn from law enforcement in fanatsy novels.
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Appendices: The Fantasy Police
In this appendices episode we take a broad look at the different roles that law enforcement usually takes in the fantasy adventure genre. From the world of Robin Hood to the alternate reality of His Dark Materials to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter and many more across screen and page.Explore the fantasy adventure genre with Kill My Darlings. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Links on blog or as source☝️
As promised in this week’s episode, here’s an insignia concept for The Cloak and Dagger Company. What do you think?
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I am loving this ¾ cape look as as the uniform style for the Cloak and Dagger Company! Especially love the idea of it being over the suit for perhaps the more administrative positions. What do you think?
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Episode 8: Kill My Police
This week we are examining fantasy law enforcement and in particular an organisation I’ve devised. There’s some great suggestions in the community feedback including strong potential for darling killing. And the short story this week is a WIPworld twist on the classic crime-on-a-train trope..Listen to Kill My Darlings wherever you get your podcasts! Links on the blog or as source ☝️
So, there’s no episode this week because I’ve been really busy in a writer’s development for a play I’m writing with my theatre company, @boomsquishtheatre
Kill My Darlings will be back next week - in the meantime you can catch up on episodes and leave your feedback for me so I can feature it in the next episode.
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This week on the podcast I mentioned the earliest movies responsible for cementing certain ideas about wands into culture. Here they are so you can see for yourself (though you’ve probably already seen them).
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Some writing tips learned from the history of magic wands in fiction. Taken, of course, from my latest appendices episode: Magic Wands in Fiction.
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Appendices: Magic Wands in Fiction
Magic wands have been a part of human cultures for millennia, both as a real tool and as a feature in stories. In this episode we take a look at how wand history has influenced our fictional narratives and where our stories have turned the magic wand into something new.Links on the blog!
by@life.by.linus - go check out their gorgeous profile.
This is kind of how I imagine the wand or magic store I spoke about in this week’s episode. Who knows what treasures you might find!
Don’t know what I’m talking about? Listen to the episode anywhere you get your podcasts or find links on the blog ☝️ Link also set as source.
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Episode 7: Kill My Wand Lore
This week we take a look at what magic wands are in WIPworld. I explain why anything could be a magic wand and you might catch a burly man casting spells with a hairbrush or a middle aged woman doing battle with a birdcage. Of course we get feedback from the community as well and hear this week’s original short story, entitled Runaways, where I put this idea into words!Listen to Kill My Darlings now! Links are in the bio or you can find it wherever you listen to podcasts.
If you’ve listened to Episode 6: Kill My Cosmology, you’ll know that I drew inspiration from the Dungeon Master’s Guide from @dndwizards for my world’s cosmology. This is a drawing I made way back when that idea was actually for a campaign I was planning. You can see how that’s changed a lot now and the original idea was of course aligned a lot more with the game.
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Check out this incredible art called The Astral Sea by @wuggyprime - this is definitely giving me those in-between, dream-layer vibes that we discussed in Episode 6: Kill My Cosmology.
Go check out more of this artist’s work on their profile!
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This week in the appendices episode, The History Of The Universe, we discussed what cosmology looks like in the real world and why it’s important to every story. Here’s the summary of main points but listen to the episode to find out more! Just search for Kill My Darlings wherever you listen to podcasts or find links on my blog!
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Appendices: The History of the Universe
This is an appendices episode to Episode 6: Kill My Cosmology about various cosmological models that exist in the real world and why they are important for our fantasy worlds.
Listen to the full episode now! You can find Kill My Darlings anywhere you listen to podcasts. Links on the blog!
✏️Art by Mikael Leger
I found this image and I wasn’t even looking for it! But it’s exactly how I imagined the spirit from my short story this week! Except this guy is a bit more mean looking, haha.
If you want to listen to this week’s short story, entitled “The Spirit of Truckle Lane”, links are on the blog or find it anywhere you usually listen to podcasts.
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You are highly motivated, focused, and feeling really creative. You are 100% confident that if you put pen to paper it’ll be magic.
In a world of magic, it’s a good idea to find ways to relate to an experience you’ll never have. Is this statement true for magic in your world?
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