About this podcast
This is Prose & Cons - a podcast for emerging writers, by emerging writers. Because sometimes we feel like pros, and sometimes we feel like cons.
Brought to you by Precipice Fiction: Six Writers. Six Worlds. Alexandria Burnham, Paddy Boylan, Alex Eldridge, Matan Elul, Phoenix Raig and James Healy. Intro and outro delivery by Nathan Gothard. https://linktr.ee/precipicefiction
Our first anthology is available now! "The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection". Find it in ebook or paperback: https://mybook.to/TheNewMythic
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 129 episodes
- Out to Lunch: Schedule Announcement! · 2 min · Season 3Hello all! Prose & Cons is going on a little bit of a break for the next few months. With a lot of new chapters presently starting, a few months of a break will help us keep our…
- Traditionally Published: Previewing Ally's Debut Novel · 1 h 22 min · Season 3 Episode 114This is it! This is the moment we've been waiting for. Ally Burnham's novel Swallow is coming out this November: listen as the group gathers to discuss her process, beta reading…
- Deus ex Machina · 1 h 1 min · Season 3 Episode 113Deus Ex Machina. God from the machine. Writing tool? Or something we should avoid? Paddy, James, and Phoenix dive into this very topic in this episode of Prose and Cons. Like…
- Allegory vs. Application · 58 min · Season 3 Episode 112Jimmy was walking to school one day when he tripped over a rock and fell. With a jolt, Jimmy woke up from the dream only to remember that he never walks to school. What does this…
- What We Are Reading - A Deep Dive · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 111Between all the writing, it is sometimes easy to forget just how much we love to read. Jump in for a cozy and fascinating conversation between James and Phoenix as they discuss…
- What a Twist! · 1 h 0 min · Season 3 Episode 110And then, at the end of all things, James, Ally, and Matan . . . WERE DINOSAURS THE WHOLE TIME! I simply cannot believe it. That’s just a little taste of what you can expect in…
- The Sanderlanche - A Cosmere Royal Rumble - Part II · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 109Annnnnnnd we're back! Tune in to see the 2nd part of the Sanderson festivities--this time centered around Ally Burnham's terrific (and chaotic) Cosmere Universal Tournmanet Arc…
- The Sanderlanche - What We Think of Brandon Sanderson - Part I · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 108Of course we couldn't do a Sanderson episode without making it a SERIES! This one ended up ballooning, rightfully so, as Ally, Matan and James discuss not only Sanderson's…
- Plot vs Story · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 107Wait, wait, wait - there's a DIFFERENCE between plot and story? Yes there is, and it's an important distinction to make! Let Alex, James and Paddy take you through the key…
- DEATH: What a Terrible Day for this Man. · 1 h 22 min · Season 3 Episode 106Death . . . what is it good for? Lots of things! Need to fundamentally alter the way your story functions and your characters interact? A character death might be right for you…
- Keeping the Momentum - Writing Motivations · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 105Writing is a marathon. Unless you're Alex Eldridge, and then writing is a sprint in which you write 20,000 words in one hit--sorta. Jokes aside, listen to the gang discuss their…
- How to start a story · 43 min · Season 3 Episode 104It's ironic that often the hardest part of writing a story is knowing how to start it. And what makes it harder? The start is often the most important part! But fear not! On…
- Fantasy Deeper Dive · 1 h 16 min · Season 3 Episode 103It’s as they say: one can’t understand the mouse until they peer beyond the hole in the wall. . . . Maybe they don’t say that, but they should! In this episode of Prose and Cons…
- What's in a Name? - The Team Discusses (and fails at) Ranking Names · 1 h 28 min · Season 3 Episode 102Atticus Finch! Lord Voldemort! Ebeneezer Scrooge! Or maybe... Eeyore? Listen as Ally, Paddy and Matan try to get to the bottom of what makes a great literary name, followed by 40…
- The Penguin: a masterclass in plot and character · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 101This week, we explore hit HBO crime drama The Penguin. Its been much lauded - but *why* is it so good? Join Ally, Paddy and Phoenix this week as they explore the techniques used…
- Celebrating 100 Episodes of Prose & Cons · 1 h 26 min · Season 2 Episode 100It has been three years since we started this thing – three years and 100 episodes! Join all six of us as we reflect on where we’ve been, what we’ve learned, and our hopes for…
- Short story analysis: The Wish by Roald Dahl · 26 min · Season 2 Episode 99Today dear audience we're going to do something a little different (GASP!): we're going to read, and analyse, Roald Dahl's short story 'The Wish'. This is a bit of an experiment…
- Show Don't Tell 2: The Tellening · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 98The mic sits in front of me, cold, unplugged, as an obligatory software update tries to keep me pacified with a graphic that clearly doesn’t actually indicate how much progress…
- Anxiety in The Bear: Dialling your mother to 11 · 53 min · Season 2 Episode 97The Bear: what a show. What a stressful, anxiety-inducing show. On today's menu, Ally, Alex and Paddy deconstruct the writing of The Bear, how it uses its frantic energy to such…
- Text-based Games and Gamified Literature · 1 h 4 min · Season 2 Episode 96You’re sitting there, maybe standing, and you’re thinking about listening to this podcast. You have a choice: press play, and you’ll be swept away, or you can close your podcast…
