Writeopolis S9 E7 - One Star Quiz!
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The glorious One Star Quiz returns! This time starring the most independent of adjudicators Laura Mauro, the fabulous James Worrad and the ‘counts as one person’ Tiny Bookcase Ben and Nico! Expect absolutely fair scoring, Ulysses, help/hindrance from the audience, egregious attempts at a Leeds accent, tapirs, facts about Tolkien that the hosts really should have known, and absolutely no cheating or betrayal whatsoever. … Well, maybe a little. What’s a One Star Quiz without at least a little betrayal, after all!
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Writeopolis S9 E6 - James Worrad
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Our penultimate guest of the season was the wonderful James Worrad! Chaotic highlights include: The entire podcast going wildly off the rails in the opening few minutes thanks to judge dredd A wild Nicholas Cage appears! Kit invents a new game to play whilst reading Stephen King The sandwich shop of dreams gets a unique entry RJ gets confused as to what agents’ roles are Jim gives RJ a new nickname and Kit a new band name Kit talks actual writing, including bring the trauma of The Finite to a new medium An exciting sneak peak into Jim’s latest WIP! And much, much more!
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Writeopolis S9 E5 - Stephen Kozeniewski
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Our next season 9 guest was the amazing Stephen Kozeniewski! Listen in for the excitement that is: - Scott simply failing to turn up - Kit discussing reading your own work and RJ discovering the joy of ‘making notes’ - A glorious discussion surrounding Philadelphia (both city and cheese) - Stephen utterly perplexing the sandwich shop of dreams with his offering - A world exclusive sneak peak at what Stephen’s working on - A deep dive into Douglas Adams and so, so much more!
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Writeopolis S9 E4 - EJ Swift
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Writeopolis season 9 continues with with the brilliant E J Swift! In today's episode: - RJ is thrilled by the spooky noises Discord have added for Halloween and disappointed that Giarc the recording bot failed to join in the fun - Emma delights with tales of swimming with sharks - Vampires appear and are quickly replaced by smut - Kit discusses the launch of Millionaire’s Day at FantasyCon and the potential of bringing the trauma of The Finite to the screen - Writing craft is discussed, to the surprise of everyone involved!! - RJ criticises Philip Pullman for not having enough armoured bears...
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Writeopolis S9 E2 - David Wragg
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Writeopolis Season 9 continues with the brilliant David Wragg! The chaos begins early in this one and soon descends into: The ghost of the clicky pen haunting Kit Everyone gets very confused about who everyone is A philosophical discussion about crossbows appears Dave discusses his latest release and compares it to the Fast and The Furious. In terms of physics. Obviously. Conspiracy theories around Catcher in the Rye run deep RJ justifies everything ever as a research expense Dave gets called out on his crimes against bears (in his books) and the ever inevitable, Cat Talk! ...
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Writeopolis S9 E1 - The Tiny Bookcase crossover
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Season 9 kicks off with a glorious crossover with Ben and Nico from The Tiny Bookcase! In this episode (which may have slightly exceeded the 1 hour timeslot): RJ returns! Along with the clicky pen. And then goes on to explain how he nearly died. Don’t worry, only nearly. Ben manages to get the word ‘banjanxed’ into the show, which left the citizens suitably impressed. Talk gets unexpectedly spicy RJ and Scott fail to do the homework, which inevitably leads to Scott being fired RJ fundamentally misunderstands the concept of ‘moving on’ The Tiny Bookcase theme tune is...
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Writeopolis S8 E8 - Jonathan Zaurin
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In this extremely unique episode of Writeopolis, we have Kit flying solo as host to the wonderful Jonathan Zaurin! The two discuss the film Derelict, its premier at Fright Fest and the dangers in trying to keep such things secret, as well as the joys and struggles of making indie films. They also touch upon the perils of losing time to video games, the lack of risk-taking in Hollywood and both Jonathan and Kit reveal their very strong opinions on musicals and musical episodes. Listeners will also get a sneak peak at the very recently released Millionaire’s Day and King Kong comes up in...
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Writeopolis S8 E5 - Fantasy Book Club crossover
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After the success of our previous crossover episode, we decided to do it again, this time with Fantasy Book Swap! The Fantasy Book Swap part of the episode discusses Devil on the Road by Robert Westall and Unraveller by Frances Hardinge, which inevitably includes: the delights of second hand bookshops and whether they're all secretly drug fronts. a deep dive into the English civil war. Ali getting spirited away to another time zone and whether the benefits of a curse outweigh the problems The Writeopolis part of the episode lowers the tone with: RJ being blamed for something...
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Writeopolis S8 E4 - Rebecca Levene
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Season 8 continues with the delightful Rebecca Levene as guest! Including: In a move that will shock absolutely no one, Dr Who is discussed! The inclusion of Labyrinth in that same conversation was certainly a surprise though. Scott reads some actual books. Disgraceful behaviour on a writing-adjacent podcast, quite frankly. Rebecca gets the citizens very excited about her current writing, which she describes as "I am Legend the movie, set in Yorkshire, but chick lit, also lesbian". Yes please (As an update, The Last Woman On Earth by Bex Benjamin is out now!!) Kit goes on a deep dive...
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Writeopolis S8 E2 - Eliza Chan
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Unfortunately, Craig, the ever-fickle recording bot, decided to do an update 6 minutes into James Worrad’s episode so there is no recording of the first episode of Season 8. Don’t worry, James will return!! Craig knew better than to misbehave for Eliza Chan though and so here we have episode 2 of season 8 in all its glory! Including: - Some egregious spreadsheet slander - Scott attempting to communicate through morse code ...
info_outlineThis time out, RJ, Scott and Kit are joined by the awesomely talented AK Falkner. In a riotously funny, free ranging conversations, subjects covered include:
- The glory of Yorkshire
- Dentistry and intimations of mortality
- Star Trek Discovery spoilers
- Dr Strange spoilers, love and fury
- Kit being mass ‘Ted Lasso’ shamed
- The one time KISS didn’t suck
- The glory of The Pet Shop Boys
- Not liking work
- The ‘planner-to-pantser’ pipeline
- How not to interview for a job
Enjoy :)