The Fanfic Writers' Craft
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Title: | The Fanfic Writers' Craft |
Created by: | Lani (pebblysand) and Jo (copper_dust) |
Date(s): | 2022-present |
Focus: | Fanfiction |
Fandom: | Multi-fandom |
External Links: | Tumblr Spotify Apple Podcasts |
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The Fanfic Writers' Craft is a fanfiction podcast focused on the writing craft of fanfiction, hosted by Lani (aka. pebblysand) and Jo (aka. copper_dust). Each episode focuses on a different aspect of writing or topic related to fanfiction writing specifically — from plotting to writing habits to reader inserts. Some episodes have guests, while others see the topics discussed between Lani and Jo. On 12 October 2023, the official description read:
The Fanfic Writers’ Craft is a podcast that discusses all things fanfiction with a focus on the art and science of writing for the enjoyment of fan communities. Every two weeks, Jo and Lani (otherwise known in fandom as @pebblysand and @copper_dust) sit down for a fun, multi-fandom, fanfic-related chat and delve into particular topics such as: the particularities of writing and reading fanfiction, monetisation, how to build a fanfiction plot, etc. Hope you enjoy!
Episode List
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Season One Episodes
Episode Number | Release Date | Title | Fannish Topics | Direct Link |
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1 | May 25, 2022 | What Is Fanfiction? (or, Children with Unsupervised Internet Access in the Early 2000s) | Fanfiction, Original Fiction, Going Pro | X |
2 | June 10, 2022 | How to Plot? (or, Vibes - It's 90% Vibes) | Plot holes, Commenting | X |
3 | June 24, 2022 | Original Characters (Or, Starting Fandom Fires!) | Original Characters, Mary Sues, Self Inserts | X |
4 | July 8, 2022 | "Shipping" (Or, Imagining Vietnam Vets Reading Our Fanfiction) | Shipping, Slash, Gen | X |
5 | July 22, 2022 | Past Tense v. Present Tense (Or, Trendy Kids Breaking the Rules?) | Present Tense, YA Fiction | X |
6 | August 5, 2022 | Writing in English as a Second Language with @venom0usbarbie (Or, Feeling the "Académie Française" Looking over my Shoulder) | X | |
7 | August 19, 2022 | Dialogue (Or, Lemons and Lemonade) | Dialogue, Monologue | X |
8 | September 16, 2022 | An Evening Chat with @tessiete (Or, Do Lupin and Obi-Wan Vibe the Same?) | The Good Wife, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Copyright | X |
9 | September 30, 2022 | Point of View (Or, Who In The World Ever Is Reliable?) | POV | X |
10 | October 14, 2022 | Multimedia in Fanfiction [Part 1] with @crazybutgood & @newsom (Or, Fooling the Security Cameras by Reading Fanfic At Work) | Multimedia | X |
11 | October 28, 2022 | Writing Habits and Routines (Or, People For Whom Forward Motion Is A Challenge) | X | |
12 | November 11, 2022 | Writing War (Or, All Of Us Are Going To Geneva) | X | |
13 | November 25, 2022 | An Evening Chat with @ala_baguette (Or, People Are Interesting!) | Harry Potter, Original Characters, Gen | X |
14 | December 9, 2022 | Humour (Or, Are Goncharov Fanfics Crackfics?) | Crack fic, Tumblr, Goncharov | X |
15 | December 21, 2022 | 2022 Wrap-Up (Or, We Have At Least Three Listeners) | X |
Season Two Episodes
Episode Number | Release Date | Title | Fannish Topics | Direct Link |
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1 | January 20, 2023 | Smut with @celestemagnolia (Or, Just Call It A Dick!) | Smut | X |
2 | February 3, 2023 | Outgrowing Fandoms (Or, The Harry Episode) | X | |
3 | February 17, 2023 | Multimedia in Fanfiction [Part 2] with @rosalui (Or, Snackleholt Bingsley LARPs Warrior Cats on the Amazon Kindle) | Naruto, Mo Dao Zu Shi, Harry Potter, Avengers, Captain America | X |
4 | March 3, 2023 | Writing Dystopian Hellscapes with @Nargles15 (Or, Here's Harry and His Poorly Named Children) | Harry Potter | X |
5 | March 17, 2023 | Writing Dark Stuff (Or, There's No Substitute For Going to School) | Darkfic, Content warning, Trigger, | X |
6 | March 31, 2023 | Politics and Social Issues (Or, Who Has the Energy to be a Teacher and a Spy at the Same Time?) | X | |
7 | April 14, 2023 | Fanfiction and the Classics with @johaerys-writes (Or, Wangxian Tags Achilles' Heel, No More Sexytimes For Ao3) | The Song of Achilles, Mythology, The Iliad, Dragon Age | X |
8 | April 28, 2023 | Research (Or, Shifting into Draco Malfoy's Girlfriend) | X | |
9 | May 12, 2023 | Romance (Or, They're Cousins. They're Lovers. It's Fine, It's Ancient Greece.) | Romance, Platonic, The Good Wife, Harry Potter, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great | X |
10 | May 26, 2023 | Reader-Inserts with @word-wytch (Or, POV: You're Dating Eddie Munson) | Reader-Insert, Stranger Things | X |
11 | June 10, 2023 | Music and Fanfiction (Or, Anyway, Here's Wonderwall) | Music | X |
12 | June 23, 2023 | Writing Style (Or, Homer is an FF.net Writer) | The Good Wife, Harry Potter | X |
13 | September 20, 2023 | Long Fics (Or, Is This Abandoned?) | Longfic | X |
14 | October 20, 2023 | Titles (Or, Why'd You Have To Go and Make Things So Complicated?) | X | |
15 | November 20, 2023 | Worldbuilding (Or, 'I Like It When People Get Stuff Right About Women') | Worldbuilding | X |
16 | December 1, 2023 | [BONUS] Platforms & Wattpad with @MyLittleDuckies (Or, Please, Save Your Works!) | Wattpad, Fanwork Purges | X |
17 | December 20, 2023 | 2023 Wrap-Up (Or, We Don't Need to Talk about MH370 Right Now) | X |
Season Three Episodes
Episode Number | Release Date | Title | Fannish Topics | Direct Link |
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1 | January 20, 2024 | Audience (Or, Chances Are: You’re Not Going to Win the Nobel Prize for Fanfiction) | Harry Potter, Peaky Blinders, All The Young Dudes | X |
2 | February 21, 2024 | Hot Takes & Nitpicks (Or, Pause This Podcast Right Now And Delete The Phrase 'Thin Cotton T-Shirt' From Your Fic With No Further Penalties) | Archive of Our Own, Fandom and Profit, Fandom Statistics | X |
3 | March 21, 2024 | Outlining (Or, Is This Just An Ad For Miro?) | Outlining, Writing, Writer's Block | X |
4 | April 21, 2024 | Use of Time in Narrative (Or, Defending the Artistic Merit of your Vampire Smut) | Writing Techniques, Flashbacks, Non-linear storytelling | X |
5 | May 21, 2024 | Motifs & Symbolism (Or, We're Okay Being Associated With S&M) | Symbolism | X |
6 | September 21, 2024 | Money, Business & Economics (Or, Here's The Link To Our Ko-Fi) | Classism, Economics | X |