On Riting (On Riting staff)

In 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

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

In 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

In 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.com

In 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

In 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

Oh 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

In 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

You 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 where to find a group that posts up contests and submission pages constantly? Join our discord https://discord.gg/8H2jbP9X 
Want to send us an unsolicited submission so that Anne can exercise her delete powers? email us at on.riting@gmail.com

24 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

In 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

We'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://linktr.ee/onriting 

In 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 

In 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

In 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

In 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/how-to-suffer-outside-a-beginner2019s-guide-to-hiking-and-backpacking 
I know, we don't have as many tips about boots -- yet -- but you can join our discord, or follow us on twitter through https://linktr.ee/onriting

In 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

In 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

We'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

MJ, 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

In 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

Hi 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

In 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. 

In 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

In 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 

In 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

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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. 

In 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.

In 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

You 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

In 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.

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!

In 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 pull the trigger on Amazon)
Watch Her Youtube Guides!
And, oh right, our link: The answer to the above mystery is "Send your work to Chad, for money, through our discord," which is right here

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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.

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.

In 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.

In 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?

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.

In 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.

In 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! 

In 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. 

In 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 

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.

In 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.

In 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.

In 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

In 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!

In 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

In 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.

In 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!)

In 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.

In 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.

In 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!

In 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 

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

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.

In 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?

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!

In 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. 

In 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

In 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

In 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

TO 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.

In 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!

In 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

In 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!

In 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.  
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In 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. 
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In 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. 
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In 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; 2003
Hobsbawm 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

In 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.
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In 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.
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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. 

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In 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.
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In 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.
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A 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