Auscast Literature Channel
by Auscast Network
All Auscast shows all about Literature
Episodes
Bordertown Episode 2: Bananas from Ecuador
17m · PublishedB-grade comedian Tyrone Jackson dies on stage in Chicago. Meanwhile back in Bordertown, Felicity bids farewell to Benno Flannagan forever.
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“Meet the Gremlins” (ABC Interview)
29m · PublishedWho are Amy, Alex and Sean? What have they written? How do they juggle teaching and writing? Is it even possible to teach people to write? Why does this podcast exist? One of them swears too much, one makes an unconvincing soldier, one wrote epic D&D poetry as a teenager: by the end of this informal Q&A, you will know who, and much more about your Word Docs hosts.
Episode 7 - tags
ABC
Bad Poetry
Bob Roberts
Children's Book Council Award
Chocolate
Collaboration
Confessions
Coronavirus/COVID-19
Creative Writing
Creative Writing PhD
D&D
Drunk writers
Editing
Elbows
Failure
Fears
Flinders University
Genres
Gremlins
Heroes
Horror
The ideal reader
Ideas
Lockdown
Mentors
Networking
Nostradamus
NSW Premier's Literary Awards
Once Upon A Midnight
Playwriting
Power Rangers
Practice Led Research
Publication
Publishing
The Queen
Romance
Routines
Screenwriting
Secrets of writing
Short Stories
Space Opera
Star Wars
Teaching writing
Teletubbies
Tess LeSue
Thrill Me! anthology
Tom Young
Villains
Vulnerability
YA fiction
Interest plus hours
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Bordertown Episode 1: The Silver Bodgie
13m · PublishedEpisode One: The Silver Bodgie
Discontent with her own waning notoriety after creating Bob Hawke’s hairdo in 1982, local hairdresser Patricia sends her daughter Felicity to Hollywood in search of fame.
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Bonus Book Launch Episode
29m · Published“Two out of three Word Docs have books out this month, and so does special guest Lisa Hannett (aka Dr Lisa Bennett). How do you launch a book during lockdown? By asking Amy to interview all three authors and raise a virtual toast to their inevitable success. Happy book birthday, Word Docs!”
Bonus Book Launch Episode - tags
Allen & Unwin
Book Birthday
Book Launch
Currency Press
Her Perilous Mansion
Lisa Bennett
Lisa Hannett
Songs for Dark Seasons
Ticonderoga Publications
Watchlist
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Where’s Harry? (Characters)
35m · PublishedPeople read stories about people, so learning how to write people is an important step on your journey. Whether you steal from real life or create out of whole cloth, whether you prefer heroes to villains, whether you regularly lose control of the characters you have brought into being – the Word Docs are right there with you. Their methods may differ, but one thing is certain: chocolate is likely involved.
Twitter: @TheWordDocs
Instagram: @TheWordDocs
Facebook: The-Word-Docs
Tags - Acting vs writing, Action scenes, Alcohol, Ambiguity, Authorial agency, Backstories, Book chocolate, Borrowing from real life, Capacity for change, Characters, Chocolate, Collaboration, Comfort food, Complexity, Conflict, Context, Creative constraints, Dublin, Evolution, Extras, Forced endings, Franchises, Galley slaves, Heroes, Internal conflict, Intuition, Kids, Killing off characters, Long-haul flights, Meaning of names, Merchandising, Metaphors, Moscato, Mundane details, Name dictionaries, Name dropping, Naming characters, Non-fiction, Obsession, Origins, Outlining, Parenting, Past/present/future thinkers, Past victories, Planning, Podcasts, Protagonists, Psychology, The Queen, Reading, Real people, Rebellious characters, Recurring characters, Relationships, Roll call, Rewriting, Runaway characters, Scale, Secondary characters, Shortlisting, Silent extras, Star Wars, Sugar addicts, Tea, Texture, “Tom the Paper Boy” phenomenon, Too many characters, Tragedy, Villains, Weather, Writing as therapy
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Being Medium (How do you know when you’re a writer?)
36m · PublishedNew writers beware: saying that you are one invites interrogation on the nature of your work, where it has been published, and how much you’re being paid – all difficult questions to answer when you’re starting out. Writers, ultimately, come in many different shapes and sizes. The Word Docs are here to help you find your place in the pantheon, and to guide your dealings with Grandma next time you visit.
Twitter: @TheWordDocs
Instagram: @TheWordDocs
Facebook: The-Word-Docs
Tags - The Act of creation, Agents, Alien ideologies, Audiences, Author copies, Awards, Bad Sex Awards, Baking, Being orphaned, Beta readers, Brag shelves, Bravery, Brutal honesty, Business cards, Cakes, Career paths, Character identification, Characters, Chocolate, Community, Competitiveness, Conferences, Confidence, Conflicting feedback, Consultation, Continuity, Criticism, Critics, Disappointment, Doctor Who, Downturns, Drawer stories, Dreamweavers, Editors, Exposure, Fact vs fiction, Failure vs success, Family, Feedback, Gender-swapping, Genre discrimination, Good news, Gratuitous side projects, Growing the pie, Happiness, Honesty, Hope, The Imagined reader, Imposter syndrome, Inadequacies, Innate genius, Jealous peers, Kids, The Loneliness of success, Luck, Madness, Milestones, Money, Moral arguments, Parents, Parody, The Passionate response, Publishers, Professional vs amateur, Pseudonyms, Public adoration, Punctuation, Qualifications, The Queen, Rated R, Respiratory diseases, Royalties, Self-assessment, Sex scenes, Sense of humour, Sharing the love, Skills, Star Wars, Stalkers, Tall Poppy Syndrome, Taxonomy of writers, Theses, Tribes, Validation, Vampires, Visibility, Wattpad, Werewolves, Withholding, Wordsmiths, Writers’ Associations, Writing for a living, Writer bling
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On Your Bike (Networking)
33m · PublishedYour book is done. What comes next? Finding the right editor is just one of the many challenges that the Word Docs have faced with aplomb – or if not aplomb, at least with a cocktail and a good conversational opener. Alex, Amy and Sean will help you break down the wall between writer and publisher that sometimes seem insurmountable.
Twitter: @TheWordDocs
Instagram: @TheWordDocs
Facebook: The-Word-Docs
Tags - Access, Authenticity, Being a dick, Bangers & mash, Brainstorming, Brutal honesty, Canapés, Chocolate, Cocktails, Collaborators, Community, Conferences, Confidence, Conventions, Coursework cohorts, Credibility, Doctor Who, Double entendres, Elevator pitch, Emma Thompson on a unicycle, Fabio pants, Fake it vs make it, Festivals, Gossip, Homonyms, Human scum, Introversion vs extroversion, Meat alternatives, Merchandising, Momentum, My Dad Wrote a Porno, Name dropping, Nanna Joy, Narcissism, Networking, Publisher’s assistants, The Queen, Selling yourself vs selling your work, Self-promotion, Sex, Shamelessness, Shyness, Social anxiety, Sounding boards, Stable ponies, Stakes, Strategic socialising, Support ponies, Tall poppy syndrome, Track records, Two out of three rule, The Tyranny of distance, The Work is the work, Writers’ Associations
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Hell is Other People (The Writing Environment)
33m · PublishedWhether you’re a reclusive garret scribe or a gregarious cafe scribbler, you’ve put serious thought into the space you write. Alex, Amy and Sean are no different. They’ve experimented with rituals and rooms of their own. They’ve wrangled writers’ groups and writing retreats. One of them has gone to Antarctica in search of the ultimate office. The Word Docs learned their lessons the hard way so you won’t have to.
Twitter: @TheWordDocs
Instagram: @TheWordDocs
Facebook: The-Word-Docs
Tags - Accomplishment, Administration, All-nighters, Antarctica, The Best time to write, Bob Roberts, Book proposals, Bragging rights, Caffeine, Cats, Coffee shops/cafe culture, Cone of silence, Control vs chaos, Define “writing”, Distractions, Dublin, Exposure, Fake news, Fellowships, The Flow, Hell is other people, Hot chocolate, Housework, Kids, Lofts, Massages, Moscato, Multitasking, Music, Nanna Joy, Noise, Nature, Networking, Offices, Parenting, PhD, Pizza, Privacy, Retreats, Rituals, The Romantics, Sample chapters, Scotch Finger biscuits, The Secret, Seeking perfection, Sheds, Shovelling, Silence, Spotify, Standing desks, Star Wars, Storms, Swimming, Tea, Teenagers, Theme music, Tuning out, TV, Weather, Work/life balance, The Writer’s revenge, Writer cats, Writing environment, Writing goals, Writing groups, Writing in public, Writing on the road
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That’s Weird (Creativity)
30m · PublishedWhere do ideas come from? Are there any new ones left? Does taking a long shower count as work? Is chocolate tax-deductible? The Word Docs share techniques, traps, and tales of times when inspiration has fled but the words must be put down regardless.
Twitter: @TheWordDocs
Instagram: @TheWordDocs
Facebook: The-Word-Docs
Baking, Beginnings with no endings, Boredom, Bread, Cooking, Community, Creative combinations, Creative music, Creative prompts, Daydreaming, The Definition of work, Daily wordcount, Deadlines, Demons, Double entendres, Downtime, Drafting, Dreams, Drinking games, Editing, Exhaustion, Fishes, Free association, Grants, The Grind, Ideas, Inspiration, Intuition, Ions, Left brain/right brains, Lightning bolts, Loose construing, Love, Mentorships, Movies, Music, Neologisms, New ideas, Notebooks, Play space, Process, Procrastination, Psychics, Reading, Refilling the well, Remixing, Researchm, Routine, Shakespeare, Schenectady, Spotify, Stages of writing, Storms, Sustaining creativity , Thesaurus, Titles, Unstructured time, Weather
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Special COVID Episode
30m · PublishedAlex, Amy and Sean check in from their underground bunkers, where their research, writing and teaching continue unchecked. How are they coping with physical isolation? How are you? New times call for new solutions. Stay safe, everyone
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Auscast Literature Channel has 142 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 77:17:58. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on November 21st 2022. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on May 25th, 2024 14:40.