Prose and Cons
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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. 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/TheNewMythicReach out to us at: https://www.precipicefiction.com/contactpage/
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Anxiety in The Bear: Dialling your mother to 11
Prose and Cons
11/13/24 • 52 min
The 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 strong effect, and how you (yes YOU!) can sprinkle some of that special spice into your own writing.
(Do note - there are slight spoilers for seasons 1, 2 and 3. Nothing major, but if you really don't want to know anything that happens, maybe leave this one until you're all caught up on the show.)
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
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Absolute Prose Highlights: How to Break a Story
Prose and Cons
06/11/24 • 68 min
Some lovely new discussions are on the horizon as the team has been quite busy off in the writing world. In the time being, Phoenix has selected one of his favourite episodes; if you're in the early drafting stages or the developmental stage of your manuscript, this is definitely worth a listen.
Why can't we just give our character a magic wand and be done with it? Nothing says we can't, but will it be good? Or will it completely ruin the story? In this episode, Ally, Matan, Phoenix, Paddy, and James look at all the ways to rip, tear, break, and shatter a story. We get into all sorts of stuff, such as:
Shock factor done well vs. done not so well.
How to create meaning and avoid making things feel meaningless.
James's tenuous relationship with vomit zombies.
A special shout-out to "Cardinal West" on YouTube for his amazing analysis of Zuko's story from Avatar the Last Airbender.
Patrick Rothfuss, if you're listening, small trigger warning for you on this one. You're great, but a little bit of blood was drawn.
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
- Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
Absolute Prose Highlights: Critiquing Critiques
Prose and Cons
02/20/24 • 49 min
Here's we revisit an old episode where we take a look at some classics of writing advice and really break them down. If you're new to writing and just getting back some advice for the first time, it's a great place to start. Enjoy!
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
- Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
Absolute Prose Highlights: Creativity
Prose and Cons
01/22/24 • 49 min
This is a rerun of Ally Burnham's fascinating look into what makes the creative mind tick and how to give it a bit of a kickstart if you're feeling stuck. This was a popular episode among the Precipice crew so if you haven't heard it, it's worth a listen!
Contact us at: precipicefiction.com/contactpage/
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
- Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
Text-based Games and Gamified Literature
Prose and Cons
10/28/24 • 64 min
You’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 app and know a normal life.
The choice is yours.
On this episode of Prose & Cons, Phoenix, Alex, and Paddy bask in some Saturday morning energy and discuss their thoughts around and relationships with text-based games and literature that has adopted a gamified approach.
This isn’t a technique-heavy episode, but feel free to kick back, relax, and enjoy a fun discussion.
Some things talked about in the podcast you might want to check out:
- Doki Doki Literature Club (Free on Steam at the time of upload).
- Road Warden
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
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What are your favourite writing techniques?
Prose and Cons
05/28/24 • 43 min
James, Matan and Alex sit down to answer the the question what are their favourite techniques - both to read and to write.
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
- Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
Absolute Prose Highlights: Imposter Syndrome
Prose and Cons
03/04/24 • 54 min
This marks the 6th and final episode of our Absolute Prose run. This final highlight selection was made by – last but not least – Phoenix. Imposter syndrome is something that has plagued more or less everybody at some point in their lives in some form or another. If you've not felt it, that's fantastic – keep doing what you're doing. If you have felt it, you are far from alone. This is one of the things that a writing group, or community in general, can help a lot with.
Kick back and enjoy our little sharing circle. After all, sometimes we feel like pro(se), and sometimes we really do feel like cons.
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
- Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
The Medium Has Its Own Necessities - Books vs. Movies
Prose and Cons
12/14/23 • 53 min
Could the book be better than the movie? Paddy, Alex, Matan and Phoenix discuss the value and issues inherent in adapting an IP from one source to another. We go deep on classics like Bladerunner, the Shining, Annihilation and Apocalypse Now and compare them to their literary progenitors.
- Should a movie adaptation be completely faithful?
- What is entailed in keeping the "spirit" of a work?
- Our most loved and love-to-hate adaptions.
-Plus: birdseed and what constitutes too much
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
- Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
Genre Deep Dive: High Fantasy
Prose and Cons
12/04/23 • 69 min
Hail and well met my good traveler! I must say I am pleased to see that the dragon of Ar’kanék has not bested you and that you were able to come and hear my tale.
Dear traveler, sit and enjoy as I tell you the story of four young, handsome magi who talked about High Fantasy for a bit over an hour.
That’s right! In this episode of Prose and Cons, Paddy leads Phoenix, Matan, and Alex through the realms of High Fantasy. They delve deep into genre staples, what may or may not be High Fantasy, and some suspicious activity between Tolkien and a fantasy writer who came before him (Matan and Phoenix will never be the same).
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
- Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
Tiny but Mighty: Short Stories
Prose and Cons
10/14/24 • 51 min
Short stories are the brief beloveds of the literary crowd. We here at Precipice love short stories - so why aren't they more popular? And why does (nearly) every great writer still write them? And why should *you* be writing them? Join Matan, Alex and Paddy in exploring the hidden mysteries of the tiny but mighty short story format.
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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.
The New Mythic: A Sci-Fi & Fantasy Collection - Available now in ebook or paperback: mybook.to/TheNewMythic
- Website: precipicefiction.com
- YouTube: youtube.com/@PrecipiceFiction
- Instagram: instagram.com/precipicefiction/
- Twitter: twitter.com/PrecipiceFic
- Facebook: facebook.com/PrecipiceFiction
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FAQ
How many episodes does Prose and Cons have?
Prose and Cons currently has 111 episodes available.
What topics does Prose and Cons cover?
The podcast is about Sci-Fi, Pop Culture, Writer, Fiction, Film, Story, Writing, Television, Podcasts, Books, Science Fiction, Arts, Fantasy, Novel and Horror.
What is the most popular episode on Prose and Cons?
The episode title 'Genre Deep Dive: Dystopian Literature' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Prose and Cons?
The average episode length on Prose and Cons is 55 minutes.
How often are episodes of Prose and Cons released?
Episodes of Prose and Cons are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Prose and Cons?
The first episode of Prose and Cons was released on Jun 13, 2022.
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