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On Riting082: To The People: NaNoWriMo ConfigurationIn this episode, Chadd and Sean (MJ was busy making money from her writing) take on the "largest" "ai writing" subreddit, the Rings of Power fandom, and the radioactive core of the streaming economy. It's to the people, it's going to have a speedrun.https://linktr.ee/onriting Link! Activate!
2024-10-101h 14On Riting
On Riting081: Le Podcaste des VampiresIn this episode, MJ, Sean, and Chadd look the Vampyre, the most bougie of all monsters. Other topics include Interview with the Vampire, Pamplicestousness, and the werewolf apocalypse. And NaNoWriMo, yeah.https://linktr.ee/onriting Oh look, a noble discord link, just for you, dear listener.
2024-09-261h 15On Riting
On Riting080: National Ukelele Apology Month (NaUkApMo)In this episode, Chadd, Sean, and MJ go through the NaNoWriMo drama, specifically the rancid apology letters and the company's defense of AI plagiarism. Other topics include The AI Mummy, the Imaginary Disability Community, and the inimitable oeuvre of Chuck Tingle. https://linktr.ee/onriting Link! Didn't include it first time, but now it's here!
2024-09-121h 15On Riting
On Riting079: Hustling SamuraiIn this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Sean, see examples of bad writing all around them, it's in the WALLS. Other topics include the NYPD, the most interesting man in WW2, and MJ subtweeting (subcasting?) about her nemesis.https://linktr.ee/onriting C'mon, join the discord, you know you want to!
2024-08-291h 08The Stay-at-Homeschooling Mom Podcast
The Stay-at-Homeschooling Mom PodcastImportant Life SkillsWhile knowing the Four Rs (reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmatic, and religion) is essential for your child to succeed in life, it is also important to learn certain life skills to function well in the world. Today, Mary Ellen and Ginny discuss ordinary things your children need to know, like how to manage money, how to really clean a room, and how to plan and cook healthy meals.  Show Notes: Did you know that an entire Instagram account is dedicated to the hapless texts teens send their parents while trying to navigate life?  Questions such as: 
2024-08-2136 minOn Riting
On Riting078: 1812 OvertureIn this episode, MJ, Sean, and Chadd look at canon and canonicity as concepts in writing, and how your writing SHOULD NOT think about canon. Other topics include angry MIT fanmail, Spider-man, and James Baldwin.https://linktr.ee/onriting Contribute to the war on Mice here!
2024-08-151h 07On Riting
On Riting077: Starting Over From Folklore: A System LitRPG Progression Fantasy StoryIn this episode, Sean regales Chadd and Marjorie with the saga of Xianxia, with its roots in folklore to its current dominance of the amazon fantasy bestsellers. Other topics include Chinese Traditional Medicine, Chadd's dating history, and Dragon Ball Z. https://linktr.ee/onriting has everything you need! Except the sources!Chen, Nancy N. Breathing Spaces. Columbia University Press; 2003Hobsbawm E, Ranger T, eds. The Invention of Tradition. Cambridge University Press; 2012. Taylor, Kim. Chinese Medicine in Early Communist China, 1945-1963; A Medicine of Revolution. Routledge; 2005
2024-08-011h 11On Riting
On Riting076: 10 The People 20 Goto 10In this episode,  MJ brings the Substack, Sean brings the Reddit Cinematic Universe, and Chadd brings the Lightning Round. Other topics include Achilles, the musical response to Danny, and the return of the Character Sheet Fallacy. https://linktr.ee/onriting Is the link. Look, we strongly believe in Brady, but this was a mythic prosecutorial failure. Argue here.
2024-07-181h 06On Riting
On Riting075: Dance Dance DanceIn this CROSSOVER EPISODE, Final Fantasy, Writing, and Dance combine! Expert Witness MJ presents her case with the assistance of court recorder Sean and Judge Chadd. Other topics include the dream ballet, the history of Modern Dance, and the legend of Bob Fosse. https://linktr.ee/onritingThe Link! This one tells the truth! https://linktr.ee/shoebillpod This link! The other one always lies! The other link would tell you to click itself!
2024-06-271h 03On Riting
On Riting074: Riter to King's F15--CheckmateIn this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Sean look at Chess in Fiction, Substack, and the grim specter of Snarf. Other topics include Horses, the protective layer of furries safeguarding the internet, and the dubious Catholicism of Master and Commander's surgeon.  https://linktr.ee/onriting Complain about the migration here! 
2024-06-131h 03On Riting
On Riting073: Book Club I: A New HopeIn this episode, Chadd's Book Club takes off as he examines a variety of passages in three examples of the neo-Gothic. Other topics include Licensed Fiction Sins, Hauntology, and atypical narrators.https://linktr.ee/onriting LINKTREE, GO!
2024-05-301h 07On Riting
On Riting072: MorlockmaxxingIn this CHAOS CONFIGURATION episode, MJ, Chadd, and Goblinsean discuss permanency of publishing and the enduring power of Dune. Other topics include industrial engineering in WW2, Captain America (Nomad), and the illustrious career of Laurence Fishburne. https://linktr.ee/onriting Link! I don't want to locate that comic, please don't ask for it, but I will provide it if demanded
2024-05-161h 09On Riting
On Riting071: Newtonian SwordmastersIn this episode, Chadd, MJ, and Sean talk about the implications of expertise and ease, and why your antagonist is allowed to kick Unlimited Ass. Other topics include Left Behind's confused antichrist, the nature of the sword, and Sean's proclivity to inflict spreadsheets on innocent bystanders. https://linktr.ee/onriting Is the link! The cat needs your help! Save it!
2024-05-031h 03On Riting
On Riting070: To the 9eo9leTO THE PEOPLE TIME! In this episode, Sean, MJ, and Chadd head to reddit, tumblr, and BACK TO REDDIT for the worst of the worst. Topics include the Worst Poem, why you want content warnings, and a friend of the show having shooters in the cast.
2024-04-181h 10On Riting
On Riting069: Anne RicistIn this episode, Returning Champion MJ, Chadd, and Sean talk about Anne Rice and Adaptations! Other topics include Deadly Drifter, The Beat Poets of Rohan, and the massive antisemitism of Australian Jesus Christ Superstar!Donate to the cat! Join the Discord! https://linktr.ee/onriting
2024-04-041h 18On Riting
On Riting068: Saints of the PatrickiotsIn this SPECIAL episode of On Riting, we recorded a commentary track for The Last Starfighter, Chadd's filmographic home turf! If you want to sync us up, we're paused at 18 seconds, approximately when the rosy fingers of dawn reach over the globe on the newer universal logo, 6 seconds before the old universal logo, if you're watching on a different platform. And here is a link for you, dear listener! https://linktr.ee/onriting
2024-03-211h 57On Riting
On Riting067: Boat JamsIn this (sadly MJ-less) episode of On Riting, Chadd and Sean explore the strangely ideology-less Death and Other Details, and what it can tell us about using themes without using themes. No, not like that. Other topics include Billy Zane, Huysman, and the eternal specter of Mao. Feed! That! Cat! https://linktr.ee/onriting
2024-03-091h 03On Riting
On Riting066: Conventional WisdomIn this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Sean look at Writing Conventions, as well as the darkest road of fanfic. Other topics include Furry Police, the Wisdom of Solomon, and the fate of Pennsylvania.  https://linktr.ee/onriting In many ways, a discord server is *like* a convention, in that there are monsters in the walls. Skittering. 
2024-02-221h 03On Riting
On Riting065: Saltier than Riting (Star Wars)In this episode MJ, Chadd, and Sean look at a community that feeds directly into r/writing, and the media property that surrounds it. Other topics include Indian In the Cupboard, X-Files licensed fiction, and the Expanded Universe (Bad).  https://linktr.ee/onriting Quickly, the horrible expanded universe shit becomes as air and smoke even as you wait!
2024-02-081h 09On Riting
On Riting064: Not Stephen King OneIn this episode, MJ, Shaun, and Chadd basically just fangirl out over Borges. He's a genius, what more do you want us to say? Other topics include Final Fantasy VII, Charlie Chaplin, and the power of numbering drafts. https://linktr.ee/onriting holds the mystery of Charlie's fate, but are you bold enough to click it, traveller?
2024-01-251h 11On Riting
On Riting063: Red-Flag Reads (Britney's Version)In this episode of the premiere California Politics Fanfiction Podcast (just kidding we're about writing and writing communities) Shawn, Chad, and MJ take a look at reads, both red-flag and worse. Other topics include the Roald Dahl's kill count, Elf/Dwarf racism, and the secret origin of poems about the Moon.  https://linktr.ee/onriting Has the donate link, donate donate donate.
2024-01-111h 05On Riting
On Riting062: Kill Bill (Because He's a Vampire)Hi, Bob, in this episode, MJ, Shaun and Chad take a huge vampiric, and yet somehow festive, bite out of the Riting discourse around Bill Shakespeare. Other topics include Middle School, Antisemitism, and Pictures of your Boss Shaking Hands With Christ. Oh, I know your type: looking for the link, are ye? Well, you're in luck, we just processed the return on this one. https://linktr.ee/onriting
2023-12-281h 10On Riting
On Riting061: To the People 8 - The OchoIn this episode, Chadd, Sean, and MJ go back to the endless nightmare wells known as reddit and tiktok. Other topics include Mollusk-Donny, The Boodle Fight, and Chadd's psyche shattering like a window crossing the road in front of Jackie Chan in the face of Your Favorite Teddy Bear. Do you have a novel coming out and want to get your publisher off your back with some marketing? Come on the pod! Or just click the link and gain access to a world of submissions, writers, and 6ft Under memes. https://linktr.ee/onriting 
2023-12-071h 07On Riting
On Riting060: An Archetype Named PortiaIn this episode, MJ, Shawn, and Chadd look at a difficult-to-name concept: the neoarchetype. Other topics include the ways in which LotR the Movies were superior to LotR the Books, Cyberdolphins (Ee-Eee-e, E-e-eee-ee?), and a very strange application of the Kingdom Hearts' theme. We're almost out of NaNoWriMo! If you want to gush about your book, and hear about others, https://linktr.ee/onriting is where you want to be!
2023-11-231h 05On Riting
On Riting059: The Witching Pod w/Diana HelmuthIn this episode, MJ, Sean, and Chadd interview Diana Helmuth, author of the recently-released The Witching Year, available wherever books are sold! Other topics include Vampires, regionalism, and conspirituality, plus about 4,000 '90's movies. https://linktr.ee/onriting has everything you need to get cat pictures direct from the witchiest state in the union.
2023-11-151h 06On Riting
On Riting058: gnitiR nO | On RitingIn this episode, Chadd, MJ, and Shaun look at the most bilateral of all writing concepts: Symmetry. Other topics include Robocop, Chekov's Arsenal, and the most popular Blake Poem/Painting. Want to gush about your Nanowrimo? https://linktr.ee/onriting has people who want to hear about it.
2023-11-091h 08On Riting
On Riting057: Suboptimal StackingIn this episode, Sean, MJ, and Chadd look at substack and other non-networked writing alternatives, and why they might not ever descend into Riting communities. Other topics include Val Kilmer, news cycles, and the Hugo Awards. https://linktr.ee/onriting is where you can find a writing community where the W is still provably present (thanks, mj!)
2023-10-261h 15On Riting
On Riting056: An Emotionally Dishonest PodcastIn this episode, MJ deploys a nightmarish Atlantic article on MFA programs and AI that Chad and Sean spend most of the episode crying about. Other topics include Jockey Fiction, Going Infinite, and the Dalloway/Black Leopard, Red Wolf dialectic. https://linktr.ee/onriting is the link which possesseth all the supporting materials for this episode, including an example of a tiny cat mukbang.
2023-10-121h 07On Riting
On Riting055: Riter By ProxyIn this episode, Chadd, Shaun, and Em Jay look at the Hulu series The Act and the harmful tropes that it perpetuates, as well as their implications on Riting. Other topics include Made-for-Tv 9/11 Movies, Jeb Bush, and American Regionalism. Get that cat fed! On god, she murdered a mouse right in front of Chad right after we recorded this episode (Which was actually right before the Bronco's spectacular loss, making this astonishingly precognizant?) https://linktr.ee/onriting
2023-09-281h 07On Riting
On Riting054: Suddenly, TherforeIn this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Sean take a swing at a famous philosophy of organization: And, But, and Therefore. Other topics include The Bear, Being Billy Zane, and fighting words, both good and bad, about your favorite anime. https://linktr.ee/onriting The link! For the cat food!
2023-09-141h 09On Riting
On Riting053: To the People VII: Armored QuoraIn this episode, MJ (returning Champion), Chadd, and Sean delve into Quora, and go more insane than we honestly expected. Other topics include the Rowling Group, the Ethan Hawke Continuum, and the best anime girl reaction gifs. Chadd is holding the cat pics hostage, we're not kidding: he's going to delete one an hour until his demands are met. https://linktr.ee/onriting
2023-08-311h 24On Riting
On Riting052: Musical Mt. EverestIn this episode, Sean and Chadd (MJ WILL RETURN IN TO THE PEOPLE VIII) look at the colonial power of naming, but mostly the works of Andrew Lloyd Webber. Other topics include Englandbrain, Non-Webber Musicals, and the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. https://linktr.ee/onriting has everything you need to join the #ritingcommunity, including a donation link to get Wang Miao some wet food. She needs it: she keeps forgetting meals when playing politically-charged VR games.
2023-08-171h 05On Riting
On Riting051: One of Us Has To Be The KeymasterIn this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Sean look at Gatekeeping in Riting Communities and media, well, mostly in media. Other topics include Danmei, How To Get A Slot At A Poetry Reading, and the newest member of the podcast. https://linktr.ee/onriting is where you join the #ritingcommunity. That's not a real hashtag, yet.
2023-07-271h 09On Riting
On Riting050: Victor Lustig's Guide to Publishing (Scams)In this episode, MJ, Shawn, and Chadd break down some common writing scams and schemes, including a few they've been targeted by, personally. Other topics include Stripper Unionization, Dennis Montgomery's relationship with republican donors, and Colleen Ballinger. Want a (W)riting Community in Progress? https://linktr.ee/onriting is the link you seek.
2023-07-131h 05On Riting
On Riting049: To the People VII Advent DonnyIn this episode, Chad, Chadd, and Chadwick examine some truly wretched Donny Activity, including on #booktok, r/writing, and positive and negative examples of analysis on youtube. Other topics include Aggro Crag, Cape Fear, and "Five Minutes, Cutter, Make 'Em Count." https://linktr.ee/onriting is the link to join the #chadnation 
2023-06-291h 06On Riting
On Riting048: Riter by RiterIn this (admittedly very echo-y, we tried to fix it, we promise) episode, MJ, Shaun, and Chadd look at Anne Lamott's Bird By Bird, as well as how to use writing advice books in general. Other topics include ICE being obnoxious in San Diego, how to use a writing notebook, and why writing about your childhood is a terrible idea (emote pending). https://linktr.ee/onriting is the link you seek, bold traveler. 
2023-06-151h 02On Riting
On Riting047: Themes a Lot Like Message to MeIn this episode, MJ, Shawn, and Chad look at the most or least important element of any work: Theme. Other topics include the single worst baseball play imaginable, the silliest gospel, and an alarmingly long discussion of Libertarianism. https://linktr.ee/onriting Linktree link! It has all the stuff! 
2023-06-011h 03On Riting
On Riting046: Classically-Trained RitersIn this episode, Shaun, Mj, and Chadd look at old books, (historical, fictional, pedagogical) and they ways people extract bad ideas from them. Other topics include sending the author to a nice farm upstate, Hessians, and the various turns of the Arthur narrative.  Do you have an answer for Chad's riddle? https://linktr.ee/onriting is the bridge you may cross once it is supplied.
2023-05-181h 03On Riting
On Riting045: Mechanical Belgian (The AI One)In this episode, we finally confront the specter over riting communities, the specter of artificial intelligence. Other topics include Bakelite/Formica, fair whodunits, and fantasy atheism. https://linktr.ee/onriting is where you can find some somewhat-artificial intelligences. Are sentient podcasts AI? Find out for yourself.
2023-05-041h 04On Riting
On Riting044: Jumping the SharkguffinIn this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Shaun take aim at the foulest and most-referenced of taxonomy nexuses: Tv Tropes. Other topics include racism, Destiny 2, and the inevitable conquest of AI over shitwiki's. https://linktr.ee/onriting is perhaps the link you seek, traveller?
2023-04-201h 04On Riting
On Riting043: To the People 6 - Warrior CatsIn this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Sean are back TO THE PEOPLE, reading reddit posts and submission requests. Other topics include Chadd's mortal hatred of city sims, RA Salvatore, and Gideon the 9th. Interested in taking Chadd up on that debate? https://linktr.ee/onriting is where you want to go.
2023-04-051h 09On Riting
On Riting042: 2 Saints 2 Patricks'In this unsober super episode of your third- or fourth-favorite writing podcast, Chadd, Marjorie, and Sean get drunk while talking about Chadd's book, Nazism, and the alarming tendencies of Gardner and gentrad. Other topics include the various beverages Sean acquires and consumes, while the other two stay on the narrow path. If you want to hang out with us after listening to this, https://linktr.ee/onriting is the link you're looking for.
2023-03-232h 07The VM Podcast
The VM PodcastEP22 - Reading, ’Riting, & ’Rithmetic: Is culture the missing piece in a sustainable education system? - The Vichaar Manthan PodcastRegister Now for this live event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reading-riting-and-rithmetic-registration-558272527157 In early January 2023, the UK Government announced plans to make post-16 mathematics education compulsory to equip everyone with the skills needed in a world increasingly shaped by data and statistics. But does this add up in practice? Given the struggle to recruit maths teachers, as identified by the National Foundation for Educational Research, and a general anxiety about mathematics amongst young people, this panel discussion will explore whether the real solution to better education outcomes is to be found amongst cultural factors.
2023-03-1624 minOn Riting
On Riting041: Discord Mods Need Malpractice InsuranceIn this episode, Margery, Chad, and Shaun look at the use and abuse of therapeutic language in Riting communities, and the best way to protect yourself and your community. Other topics include Godfather (so much Godfather), plagiarism, and a particularly unpopular TikTok. Want to join a community, but scared by the lack of malpractice insurance? https://linktr.ee/onriting has everything you need.
2023-03-081h 04On Riting
On Riting040: Your Great Idea About A GameIn this episode, MJ, Shaun, and Chad look at videogame art criticism and the state of theory in gaming. Other topics include Nobody Puts Billy Zane in a Corner, the best track on Just Dance 2022, and the sickening failure to read Dark Souls 3 as the comprehensive story, rather than just lore encyclopedia, that it is. Do you have a game you want a read on, or perhaps you want to get your read checked by another party? https://linktr.ee/onriting is the place you want to be.
2023-02-231h 11On Riting
On Riting039: Your Great Idea For A GameIn this episode, Chad, Shawn, and MJ go through how people break into videogame writing, and the steps you can take if you want to follow them. Other topics include the literal car crash happening outside the window, taxi navigation, and writing-as-marketing. Want to listen to the sister pod? https://linktr.ee/shoebillpod is where you want to go.Do you want to ask Chad about the miserable world of AAA game writing? https://linktr.ee/onriting probably has what you need.
2023-02-081h 12On Riting
On Riting038: Anjou GrenadineIn this episode, MJ is BACK, with Sean and Chadd to look at the enduring power of untaught old literature and the merits of joy in writing. Other topics include Buying Jenna Moreci's Book, the two works of great literature that are actually Three Musketeers in disguise, and a frankly alarming number of practice points and craft tips. Want to talk about Rebecca? https://linktr.ee/onriting is the place you want to go.
2023-01-251h 03On Riting
On Riting037: Shut Up and Write the Book w/ Jenna MoreciIn this episode of On Riting, Shawn and Chad are back from hiatus to interview the inimitable Jenna Moreci about her new book, Shut Up and Write the Book: A Step-by-Step Guide to Crafting Your Novel From Plan to Print. Other topics include "It's more than just Dinosaur Erotica," the worst writing advice anyone's ever received from a web-dev, and who to send your work to in order to get it critiqued (hint, it's not Jenna).Get the Book! (also available wherever books are preordered)Get the Savior Series! (same deal: Check your local bookstore before you p...
2023-01-111h 03On Riting
On Riting036: Turbulent Pedagogs (featuring Sean's Understudy, Shaun)In this episode, Sean, Chadd, MJ, and for the very first time, Sean's robot understudy, Shaun, look at why some really good authors give really bad advice, and how to place yourself in the crowd. Other topics include Dawson's Creek, the continuing search for a podcast platform that isn't Zencastr, and the true origins of the Lo-Fi Beats to Study And Relax To Girl. We really had a lot of calls to action with that one, huh? Well, here's most of what you're looking for. Crazy Speilberg/Lucas transcript. Scary Swiss Movie Discord! And Socials!
2022-12-151h 08On Riting
On Riting035: NaNoWriMo 4: No More NaNoIn this episode of the Premiere Liensbrooke Lore Podcast, Chadd and Sean assess how NaNoWriMo went, where they ended up, and the lessons learned. Other topics include Chadd's powerful feud with reddit, the weakness of HDDVD as a format, and the question of how many of us are currently ghosts (hint, Billy Zane). https://linktr.ee/onriting is where you want to be, as you watch Twitter implode and reddit be just the worst.
2022-12-071h 07On Riting
On Riting034: To The People VYou know what it is: to the people! Chadd, MJ, and Sean take crowdsourced Reddit questions, instagram posts, and the MBTI to task for out-and-out shittiness. Other topics include the reverse-phrenological powers of chair shots, Irish poetic forms, and the true nature of r/worldbuilding. Want to share a truly shitty reddit post? https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-11-301h 05On Riting
On Riting033: NaNoWriMo Week 3: Chadd TriumphatorIn this special episode of On Writing, Chadd celebrates his victory over NaNoWriMo, Sean laments his failures, and both try to avoid talking about Napoleon for the full hour. Other topics include the Meat Cube, Fanfiction, and the inspirational quality of primary sources.  https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/resources/victorian-industrial-towns/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liokytT2TSk and, of course, the Discord/Socials: https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-11-231h 03On Riting
On Riting032: Good for Keeping Tents UpIn this NONNANOWRIMO episode of the snarkiest writing podcast, MJ, Sean, and Chadd look at Stakes, those things which give conflict meaning. Other topics include Breeding Pairs, While Holding a Baby, and terrible twists resulting from asymmetrical stakes. Want a replacement for twitter for finding calls for submissions and follows? https://linktr.ee/onriting has what you need.
2022-11-161h 01On Riting
On Riting031: NaNoWriMo Week 1: Rose and GREAM69In this special episode, Chadd and Sean [no MJ :(] go over their NaNoWriMo progress, outlining where they are, where they thought they'd be, and the scope of their work, as well are core themes and notes they're working from. Other topics include... mostly just that. It's really easy to get carried away when talking about your own shit, but I promise there are jokes and practice points in there too. https://linktr.ee/onriting is the place where you can follow us, as well as get input on your WIPs. 
2022-11-091h 01On Riting
On Riting030: Unprompted ErrorsIn this episode, Chadd, Sean, and MJ look at one of the inciting forces of the whole podcast: writing prompts and where to find them. Other topics include the best poetic form you don't know about, the second shittiest leprechaun we've ever read, and the dark grandeur of the institution known to us mortals as Waffle House. Need some NaNoWriMo buddies, or want to complain about everyone just not shutting up about it? https://linktr.ee/onriting is the place you want to be.
2022-11-021h 03On Riting
On Riting029: NaNoWriMo 1 - Grenadine Strikes BackIn this episode of the snarkiest writing podcast, MJ, Chad, Chad's Assassin, and Shawn look at conceptualizing and outlining your NaNoWriMo book, or really any other work of long-form fiction! Other topics include the Assassination of Chad by the Coward [Redacted], the hottest bug girl in fiction, and MJ's incredible marketing prowess. Want to help some people in need in an underserved illness group? https://www.gbs-cidp.org/Want some help with that story idea? https://linktr.ee/onriting is where you want to be.
2022-10-191h 01On Riting
On Riting028: Oncler and Future KingIn this episode, MJ, Chad, and Shaun take a look at one of the most contentious and beloved subjects in the writing cosmos: fanfiction. Other topics include honey-induced ursine obesity, the legality of wolfd****, and the seamless transition from great fanfic to great novel. Want some free tutoring from Chad about how to get your fanfic to sale without having a writer living in Scotland tear you to pieces? https://linktr.ee/onriting has everything you need.
2022-10-051h 07On Riting
On Riting027: Four the PeopleIn this episode, Shaun makes a terrible mistake in sharing the worst thing every written with Chad, while all of Chad, Shaun, and MJ descend once more into the BOWELS of the internet to find the worst writing discourse around. Other topics include purple thunderstorms, the best idea for an already best selling book, and a dramatic reading of aforementioned Worse Thing Ever Written. Want to show us your own terrible thing, or perhaps get a copy of the Worst Thing to read it yourself? Get in touch with https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-09-211h 22On Riting
On Riting026: City of Brass Department of Employment Statistics, and Other Setting FailuresIn this episode, EmJay, Chad, and Shaun look at the mechanisms by which setting adds meaning to a story. Other topics include Grandfather Clocks, the nature of setting-only storytelling in games, and the curious way Wookiepedia has ruined everything. Want to tell us exactly how many elves speak draconic in your science fantasy epic? Hell, you know the drill: https://linktr.ee/onriting 
2022-09-071h 02On Riting
On Riting025: Assigned Fantasy At BirthIn this episode, Sean, Chad, and MJ look at the vaguest and most instrumental topic in writing your book to be sold: Genre. Other topics include the magnificence of Tana French, the ins and outs of Exploitation, and the legal-into-literary concept of Scènes à faire. If you're a huge genre fan, or someone who's always been skeptical about genre as derivative and flattening, this is probably the episode for you. Do you want to talk about the works of Tana French? Join our Dublin Murder Squad cult through: https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-08-241h 09On Riting
On Riting024: Trauma Center - PublishingIn this episode, Sean, Chadd, and MJ take on conventional publishing's preference for trauma, across writing, gaming, and reality TV. Other topics include Blown Away (movie and Netflix Show), the majesty of Black Leopard, Red Wolf, and the the narrow lanes that the concerned force people into. Check out the work of Dan Friday, Glassworking God: https://www.fridayglass.com/index.html If you want to get in touch with us, https://linktr.ee/onriting is probably a good place to start. 
2022-08-101h 22On Riting
On Riting023: Doctrine of ActsHi campers, MJ, Chadd, and Sean are back with Act Structure and more blown-out microphones than you can shake a manuscript at. Other topics include a LOT of 90's nostalgia, Sean having a meltdown over Canterbury Tales, the act structure of medical procedures, a literary case for baseball, and the WWE implications of the second act. We also talk a lot about J. Campbell, if that Hero's Journey shit is right for you. Follow us on our socials here: https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-07-271h 18On Riting
On Riting022: Passive-AntagonisticIn this episode of the snarkiest writing podcast, MJ, Sean, and Chadd look at Antagonists and Conflict, and the terrible advice people give about 'Villains.' Other topics include The Greatest Movie of All Time, how to fight a hurricane, and algebraic notation for writing an outlining. Interested in getting feedback on your nanowrimo camp? Join us https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-07-131h 07On Riting
On Riting021: To The People IIIMJ, Chadd, and Sean are back with the third To The People, and they've got some extra strange sources: r/writingprompts, r/cormacmccarthy, and r/donnysdaddidntdieinthatmine. Other topics include Captain Kirk's insatiable bloodlust, the occasional poetry of the Rohirrim, and The Rumor Come Out: Does Is Bruno Mars Gay? If you've got an embarrassing writing question, by yourself of Donny, feel free to join our discord and ask it of it. https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-06-291h 07On Riting
On Riting020: Biblically Accurate Italian Card GamesWe've gone biweekly! In this episode, MJ, Chadd, and Sean look at the memes surrounding 'accurate depictions' of various mythological critters in Riting Communities, and how the Waters and Mountains tinge everything about Angels, Fairies, Goblins, and, of course, Italian Card Games. Other topics include Garfield's Love Tunnel, Merlin Learned Quick Attack!, and the Ouija Rubicon. Are you writing about Angels and Demons, and want some input on your drafts? Join us: https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-06-151h 04On Riting
On Riting019: Squeaky Wheels, Tall Poppies, and Niagara FallsIn this episode, Shaun, Chad, and MJ offer more instantly applicable advice than usual, all while disguising it as snark over the Riting Server revision and critique process. Other topics include avoiding the furor of authorial ghosts, MJ's terrifying closet of uncollected work, and the dark text known as Plain English for Lawyers.  Do you have something for us to critique? Join up at https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-06-021h 10On Riting
On Riting018: Roleplaying Doesn't Start With WIn this episode of the snarkiest writing podcast, Chad, Em-Jay, and Sean look at roleplaying games, roleplaying in riting communities, and the perilous example of looking at the licensed fiction-section of the Barnes and Noble. Other topics include how throwing great pool parties has sparked almost as many careers as great prose, Doing the Voices, and the perfection of the vampire known as Dev/Null. Interested in telling us about your campaign, which didn't end, per se, but you're still really excited to write a novel from it? Get in touch here: https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-05-251h 04On Riting
On Riting017: How To Suffer In A Riting Community ft. Diana HelmuthIn this episode, MJ, Shawn, and Chadd are joined by backpacker, witch, and published author, Diana Helmuth to talk about the process of suffering outside. There will also be writing advice, a discussion of the alarming impact of Serendipity on writing success, and a brief explanation of What The Bandanas Are For. If you want more tips about how to look like an anime girl while turning into a Were-Mosquito, check out Diana's tiktok (https://www.tiktok.com/@defnotlost?lang=en), twitter(https://twitter.com/defnotlost), and, of course, her book: https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/h...
2022-05-181h 07On Riting
On Riting016 On Writing: Bad ConsumptionIn this episode, MJ, Chad, and Shawn look at a fertile vein exposed by the blasting of r/movies: how to be a terrible consumer. Other topics include Drizzt Do'urden, the ending of The Sopranos, Godzilla, simulacra on the practical end of the colonial ambitions of central Europe, and Wulfgar the Barbarian's powerful seed. Here's that link we mentioned: https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-05-111h 11On Riting
On Riting015 On Riting: Author, She WroteIn this episode, MJ, Chad, and Sean look at fictional depictions of authors, and try to extract a lot of myths of riterdom that emerge from all of us having watched too much Californication. Other topics include Bookselling in the late Renaissance, the Lathe of Heaven being on a hair-trigger, and Catfishing, (but only as Jude Law). Want to get in touch with us to bring up that we never really talked about Romancing the Stone, or its pseudo-sequel The Lost City? https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-05-041h 17On Riting
On Riting014: The Biggest Community of AllIn this episode, MJ, Cead, and Shaun get on their eSkateboards and ollie into that vast, mysterious cyber-expanse: what is revealed when you type "How write a novel" into the the gaping maw of google. Other topics include Breaking Rules, the most memorable episode of X-Files, 120 pages on the Battle of Waterloo (No mentions of ABBA, strangely enough), and IGN. Want to get in touch with us to tell us that, just like Micheal Moorcock, everyone really is telling your novel will never work? Join the discord! https://linktr.ee/onriting 
2022-04-271h 11On Riting
On Riting013: To The People IIWe're headed back to Reddit and the worst of the worst on Disboard for the second installment of To The People! This time, Chad has gone spelunking on discord, Shaun has undertaken an anthropological study of r/writing's Top-All Time, and MJ has started exploring the rarest (and in some ways, most pathetic) Riting Communities: those that charge for participation. Other topics include Pregnant Women are Uranium, 13 Reasons to Terabitha, and diegetically boring expository soliloquys. Do you have a question you'd like us to answer the next time we make one of these? Get in touch at https://l...
2022-04-201h 24On Riting
On Riting012: Central Irving AgencyIn this episode, MJ, Chad, and Sean dive in to the primordial ooze from which a good 50%+ of the writing advice on the internet springs: the Iowa Writers Workshop and their benefactor, the CIA. Other topics include the FBI's tendency to make the same mistakes over and over again, the FBI having really cool windbreakers, and FBI agent Fox Mulder's whole deal. Oh, they also talk about writing occasionally. Questions, comments, concerns, blacksites? Get in touch https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-04-131h 04On Riting
On Riting011 On Riting: Problematic Faves24 hours late on the upload for this one! I have to say, the wait was worth it for this one. This week, Chad, Shaun, and MJ take a look at three of the most influential and monstrous writers of the 20th century, and break down the ideology that motivated both their actions and their writing. Other topics include doing things In Minecraft, Disney Land Speculation, the movie Battleship, and surprisingly, zero Mummy references: a podcast record.Find everything you need to get in touch with us here: https://linktr.ee/onriting
2022-04-081h 15On Riting
On Riting010 On Riting: On SubmittingYou know what, who even cares about submissions? I'll just go on wattpad and post up my stuff; I've got like, 90 followers, 90 views is a lot better than most stuff on there. Fame and fortune will come crashing in any second now! In this episode, Shion, Chat, and EmJay walk you through all the steps of the submissions process, from what terms to google, to how to get over your bio-writing anxiety. Other topics include how everyone in LA has a screenplay, Uber malfeasance, and the eternality of Hugo Award-winning novels evolving out of short stories. Wondering wh...
2022-03-301h 17On Riting
On Riting009 On Riting: The Sochadic MethodIn this episode, Chad takes us on a voyage of discovery, diving into Riting Communities and the specific, terrible answers they gave to his questions, good and bad. Other topics include Plot Holes, Can't Hardly Wait, and the narrative utility of hiring a bunch of bounty hunters while everyone is making their Quizno's order. We have a discord! https://discord.gg/gEWfVHWU Want to send us a Can't Hardly Wait spec script? Send it to on.riting@gmail.com
2022-03-231h 02On Riting
On Riting008 On Riting: St. Patrick's Day SpecialOh boy, this one's a doozy. Sean, MJ, and Chadd discuss England, Zombies, Werner Herzog, Robin Williams, Diegesis, the Dialectic, the Czech Republic, Alcohol, George Romero, Carpentry, Jesus, and just about everything else under the sun. Be warned, this is a little more blue and a WHOLE lot longer than other episodes so far. Join our discord https://discord.gg/gEWfVHWU Email us complaints about Shaun not remembering Fitzcarraldo: on.riting@gmail.com
2022-03-162h 41On Riting
On Riting007 On Riting: To the People IIn this episode, Shawn, Chad, and MJ go spelunking in the darkest depths of the mothership itself: r/writing. Other topics include the continuing majesty of Michael Crichton, the 'ph's you should be properly terrified of, and the worst definition of Hermeneutics you've ever heard. We have a discord! https://discord.gg/UPFhvNy9 We have an email address! on.riting@gmail.com
2022-03-091h 12On Riting
On Riting006 On Writing: Contract WritingIn this episode, Chad illuminates the miserable and hazy world of contract writing, including ghostwriting, nightmare clients, and out-and-out fraud. MJ and Sean are also here, doing nonfiction and Finance writing on a salary, but those can't ever sink to the hellish depths and epic highs of fiction for money.  Oh, right, the link: https://www.upwork.com/ We have a discord! https://discord.gg/WZEGU2Kp We have an email address! on.riting@gmail.com
2022-03-021h 09On Riting
On Riting005 On Riting: PoetryIn this episode, Sean and Chad sit mystified as MJ tries to explain what exactly is so "poetic" about "Poetry." Topics include read poetry, revising poetry, submissions, chapbooks, read poetry, break-up poems, John Milton's eternal Soul, Fullmetal Alchemist, and please, just read poetry, it won't kill you, we promise.  Interested in learning more about the podcast? We have a discord! https://discord.gg/eNVhTV97 Interested in informing us how your break-up was special, and more painful than could be described with anything other than a metaphor about "Tears falling like rain"? Contact us at on.riting@gmail.co...
2022-02-231h 11On Riting
On Riting004 On Riting: WorldbuildingIn this episode, our three writers continue their John Grisham fancast with the second largest and SoCal-centric tar pit imaginable: Worldbuilding. Other topics include Brandon Sanderson's freak brain, the criminal excesses of academic anthropology in the 20th century, and Leprechaun calls to adventure.  Interested in sending us an unsolicited manuscript, just for the satisfaction that your work was printed out, read by professionals, then thrown in the trash? Email us at on.riting@gmail.com
2022-02-171h 05No BS Spiritual Book Club
No BS Spiritual Book ClubFace to Face with Dennis Patrick SlatteryFace to Face with Dennis Patrick SlatteryLive on OMTimes Radio Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 10:30 PST / 1:30 PM ESTWatch the Livestream on the No BS Spiritual Book Club on Facebook, OMTimes Radio & TV Facebook, or OMTimesTV YoutubeThis week on the No BS Spiritual Book Club’s Face to Face With… Video interview series…He calls himself a midwife, a translator, an explorer, poet, teacher, motorcyclist, elder and listener… but there’s a lot more to Dennis Patrick Slattery than that. For the past 28 years he was a professor in Mythological Studies at Pacifica G...
2022-02-151h 23On Riting
On Riting003 On Riting: John F---ing G——In this episode, MJ, Chad, and Shaun talk about our favorite author of books found on the sidewalk: John Grisham. Included topics include LEAVE, how to think about books when you're querying and submitting, and how to get approximately one million free books with the lifehack known as "library." Take issue with out love for The Pelican Brief?  Tell us at on.riting@gmail.com
2022-02-101h 06On Riting
On Riting002 On Riting: Riting CommunitiesIn this episode, Shawn, Chad, and MJ try to decipher the casus belli of this podcast itself: What is a Riting Community? What's the deal with all the 17-year-olds? Where did the submission page go? We also talk about Goosebumps, MFA programs, and how to make the most of the social media hellscape you have boldly delved.Want to demonstrate how wrong we are? Bully us at on.riting@gmail.com
2022-02-031h 06On Riting
On Riting001 On Riting: CraftA recovering academic, a contract writer, and a unlovable everyman try to solve the greatest mystery in the history of writing: what exactly is craft? Some answers include whatever Michael Crichton did with that Kraken, revision, and not worldbuilding.Are we wrong? Tell us how by email to on.riting@gmail.com
2022-01-261h 12Sultan Aji
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2020-11-2001 minOpening Weekend
Opening WeekendEpisode 16: Back To School Episode - Zapped - Fast Times at Ridgemont High: 09/03/1982This week the boys share their Top Ten favorite “Back-to-School” movies after revisiting September 3, 1982 and the raunchy student bodies of FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH and ZAPPED!Forget Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmatic - this week’s films are all about “the three S’s”: Scatman, Salami, and Spicoli! Sean Penn’s mesmerizing comic performance in Fast Times is indeed one for the ages, but in the spirit of fair play, might we also interest you in Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son shooting weiners at Albert Einstein with a bazooka? (And yes, you read all of that correc...
2020-09-081h 45Duo Ball
Duo BallEpisode 1 : PSBB Riting Kiri - Riting Kanan, Tubrukan !Evaluasi PSBB yang ada menurut kami maka PSBB bagi kami yang bukan PSBB dan PSBB bukanlah PSBB.. 
2020-06-2720 minWALL PEOPLE
WALL PEOPLEINFO TILANGAN LURMembahas tentang keresahan pengguna jalan atas perlakuan pelanggar lalu lintas yang meresahkan. RITING KANAN BELOK KIRI KNALPOT MBEERRR #PERATURANADAUNTUKDILANGGAR --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
2020-06-1425 minMr. Nixon\'s Words of Wisdom
Mr. Nixon's Words of WisdomThe 3 R'sWhen I was growing up, we talked about the 3 R’s—Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic. Of course they’re not really R’s, but they did emphasize the part of education that was considered the most important.Now, I would talk about 3 new R’s which I personally consider the most important things to learn in school and in the real world. They are Rules, Respect and Responsibility. Rules have gotten a bad name because the theory is that anyone can learn a rule, but rules often hold our society together until we can learn the other two.Respect means...
2020-04-2301 minTallgrass Prairie National Preserve Podcast Library
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Podcast LibrarySpring Hill Ranch HQ Tour Stop 12: Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse History and description of Lower Fox Creek Schoolhouse at Tallgrass Prairie NPres ---TRANSCRIPT:--- Tour Stop 12: The Lower Fox Creek School The Lower Fox Creek School was built in 1882 on land donated by school's first superintendent, Stephen F. Jones. Mr. and Mrs. Jones' daughter, Loutie, attended school in this very building, going through all eight grades. This one-room school provides a setting for educating local area students until 1930 when it was abandoned and it reverted back to the ranch owner. Feel free to peek through the windows as you imagine children studying their...
2020-04-1700 minCNA Newsroom
CNA NewsroomEp. 38: Reading, 'Riting, 'Rithmetic...and ReligionJD Flynn is joined by two very special co-hosts in this ‘Back to School’ episode. We talk with the Superintendent of Catholic Schools for the Archdiocese of Denver, Elias Moo. We profile a classical school in Denver and a Catholic trade school in Michigan. Show notes: https://lourdesclassical.org/ https://amiusa.org/ https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/new-michigan-vocational-school-combines-catholic-education-skilled-trades-77129 https://www.harmelacademy.org/
2019-08-2632 minNational Features & Documentary Series
National Features & Documentary Series3Rs – Reading, Riting and Radio (Southern FM, Melbourne)Produced by Damian Perry (Southern FM, Melbourne)It's important that the general population understands that school isn't just Maths and English.Damian Perry knows very well that school is also community outreach, innovation and finding that safe space so every student can stretch out to find their place.3Rs: Reading, 'Riting, Radio deals with students that don't fit into the mainstream. They are awesome and funny and very off-centre. Their lives are ahead of them and hopefully you can see the possibilities they represent in the arguments and verbal jostling and game shows.
2017-10-1727 minThe Gathering Windsor Podcast
The Gathering Windsor PodcastPSALMS: SONGS FOR THE SOUL | Psalm 34 | Sept 3 2017 | Pastor Garth LenoStudents are heading back to their classes soon, and today we will relearn the “Three R’s” from Psalm 34. Not reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmatic, but Resolution, Remembrance, and Realization!
2017-09-0328 minPriest Pulse
Priest PulseReading and 'Riting and Heretic - S2 E1 feat. Dr. Karyn Wiseman, Dr. Elesha Coffman, and Dr. Derek OlsenWelcome back from our summer break: it's the Priest Pulse back-to-school episode! In the roundtable segment, Dr. Karyn Wiseman and Dr. Elesha Coffman discuss the struggles of seminary institutions and the future of religious education. We talk about Dr. Coffman's article on Religious Dispatches "Are We Entering the End Times for Mainline Seminaries?" We also play a game of "Pokemon or Early Church Heretic." Colin interviews Dr. Derek Olsen about his book "Inwardly Digest: the Prayer Book as Guide to a Spiritual Life," how he found the Episcopal Church as a Lutheran, being a clergy...
2016-09-191h 14Strange Fruit
Strange FruitStrange Fruit #138: Reading, 'Riting and Race? Raising Confident Kids of ColorThe suspension of Ahmed Mohamed had just hit the headlines when we recorded this week's show. The gifted ninth-grader from Irving, Texas, built a digital clock at home, and brought it to school to show his teachers. And his English teacher assumed it was a bomb. Police were called, and despite Ahmed's unwavering insistence that his invention was a clock, he was suspended from school, arrested, and taken out in handcuffs. "I felt like I was a criminal," he told MSNBC's Chris Hayes. "I felt like I was a terrorist." Since our time in the studio, public support for...
2015-09-1829 min2 Friends On A Couch
2 Friends On A Couch44 a.k.a. The Once and Future Homecoming KingIn this second follow up to "Appe-Teasers" we tackle the other two R's of Reading and 'Riting! There's talk of High School, Catholic School, Restaurants, Lost Childhoods, Corporal Punishment, and More.
2015-07-101h 01Peace Talks Radio
Peace Talks RadioStopping Relationship ViolenceHost Paul Ingles tells the story of losing a friend to a domestic homicide and explores efforts to help young people learn the building blocks for experiencing healthy relationships as adults. Researchers say those who turn into stalkers and jealous, violent lovers often experience abuse as children and have limited positive role models for good relationships. Paul talks with two people involved in developing programs for schools that help youngsters learn how relationship conflict can be handled and how relationship breakups can be managed and survived without turning to violence. David Wolfe developed a program called "The Fourth R" in...
2011-07-0659 minKnit Together
Knit TogetherEpisode 39 – Reading, ‘Riting, and RavelryWelcome to our Episode 39 of our podcast in which we talked about . . . Moderne Baby Blanket Shalom Cardigan Holidazed Socks Clapotis Gaenor Shawl Moderne Baby Blanket Pinwheel blanket urban necessity gloves Global Warming sweater Pioneer Bitterroot Go see all of Kate’s projects on Ravelry! In the second segment we shared some of our [...]
2010-01-0800 minSomebody Swiped My Sunday Times!
Somebody Swiped My Sunday Times!Episode 81Grab the pitchforks! We’re getting closer to that big Week in Review piece on how the recession is saving public education It’s opening day: Kevin Costner, Tyler Kepner’s 2009 predictions and the Mets stiff the Little Leagues Reading, ‘riting, ‘rithmetic and empathy A.A. Gill makes a funny Berets, burgundy and setting shit on fire Three separate stories about the iPhone When was [...]
2009-04-0600 min