Dragons & Red Shirts

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts, the podcast where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears and give you something pleasant to listen to. Yep, you're my practice buddies! Thanks to my friend Nici for being responsible for this lovely little story! Originally it was slated to be entered into a contest for Doomsday Diary on Vocal. However, I didn't realize that Vocal requires a subscription in order to enter their contests. So now it's a story for you! This is a Post Apocalyptic story that is less than 2000 words long with one requirement. It had to include a locket. I decided to make something that is only relevant for this time. A casual little story for the here and now here is "The Bet" Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts, the podcast where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears and give you something pleasant to listen to. Yep, you're my practice buddies! I got the idea for this story after catching almost ten tiny little field mice in live traps in my apartment. After photographing each one, I then started to think about where they came from and what their little lives were like. As a child, Aesop and Watership Down were some of my favorite inspirations for my imagination, so it was no surprise to me when this story popped up into my brain. I hope my little invaders are happy in the field where I released them. Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts, the podcast where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears and give you something pleasant to listen to. Yep, you're my practice buddies! This week is just a little different because I can't explain it until the end. This story is based upon a real-life experience. Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

A quick note and update from Linda Teppler. Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts, the podcast where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears and give you something pleasant to listen to. Yep, you're my practice buddies! In Macrodiae, the wars between the gene-edited Macrodiae who look like giant kangaroos and humans have ended. The Super Massive ships, the SM's, have been refit and repurposed for space exploration. But this isn't the story of the SM-3. This is the story of the human that people want to be. Someone who is unflagging and...

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts, the podcast where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears and give you something pleasant to listen to for about 20 minutes. Yep, you're my practice buddies! In Macrodiae, the wars between the gene-edited Macrodiae who look like giant kangaroos, and humans have ended. The Super Massive ships, the SM's, have been refit and repurposed for space exploration. To ensure cooperation between humans and Macrodiae, politicians have agreed to a compromise. Young,...

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts, the podcast where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears and give you something pleasant to listen to for about 20 minutes. Yep, you're my practice buddies! In my Valheim stories, I write a short story based on the streamed game that I've played. The main character of my Valheim game is Grillain, a viking woman warrior of little reknown who perished on the battlefield and is taken to Valheim to help Odin defeat all the enemies there. This week Grillain is facing fear. It seems so simple and straightforward. Stop being afraid of the big bad monster. Just another problem to be overcome...right? Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts, the podcast where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears and give you something pleasant to listen to for about 20 to 30 minutes. Yep, you're my practice buddies! In my Valheim stories, I write a short story based on the streamed game that I've played. The main character of my Valheim game is Grillain, a viking woman warrior of little reknown who perished on the battlefield and is taken to Valheim to help Odin defeat all the enemies there. She is facing her second big Prey. The Elder. Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts, the podcast where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears and give you something pleasant to listen to for about 20 to 30 minutes. Yep, you're my practice buddies! In my Valheim stories, I write a short story based on the streamed game that I've played. The main character of my Valheim game is Grillain, a viking woman warrior of little reknown who perished on the battlefield and is taken to Valheim to help Odin defeat all the enemies there. This week, Grillain is rather quiet. Her whole target is to gather enough resources to get to her next prey, The Elder. She has no idea what this prey is, but she knows she's going to have to go a long LONG way to get to him. She's going to have to secure enough meat, enough weapons, enough wood, to get there and set up a raiding camp! Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

Welcome to Dragons & Red Shirts. This podcast is where I get to hone my writing craft on your ears. Yep. You're my practice buddies! In Valheim stories, I write a short story based on the game that I play. In this episode, my character Grillain has her first experience with sailing. Other players of Valheim will recognize the heart pounding moments that poor Grillain is about to experience as she works out what to do next to fulfill Odin's command to wipe out the monsters of Valheim. Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: https://www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

In this stream, I was specifically asked about the current books that I was reading. I must admit, I gave a lackluster answer. Me, the queen of description can't talk about books I read, yet I can navigate my way through complicated scientific papers describing immunity, microgravity experiments, or genetic shifts in wheat. I don't think this is a problem in my expression, but rather my emotions while actively speaking. The best thing for me to do in this case, is to go back and try it again. Inevitably I do get better at it. So I will make you this promise. The next Valheim stream, I will go back to the subject and describe the books I am reading in much more detail than just "It's a good fantasy." For now, come and join me in Dragons & Red Shirts where I give you a look in at my writing by playing games and then writing about what happens during that game. Writers also need to challenge their own views and ways of thinking, much as scientists do. This gives us "the whole picture" as it were. So this week the story is a little different. You've been looking at Valheim from one viewpoint, but what if you saw it just a bit differently? Can I convince you that this vision is just as valid? What will you feel as you read and listen to it? I wish I could know what you think as you do, for that is my job, to make you take your own journey, even as I describe Grillains. Website: www.s0rceress0.com Twitter: @LTeppler My Books: https://www.s0rceress0.com/my-books Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

This is a story of one of the main characters of Macrodiae. A novel set in the future, where humanity has just ended the wars with the created Macrodiae race. Macrodiae is not a book of the wars themselves, but rather the stories of those who move on from the wars and what they find as they explore outward from their own known space. In this short story, I introduce you to Engineer Ruie Bythe. Her early formative years are extremely important in understanding her actions later on as she...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. Join me in this week's episode of Dragons and Red Shirts where I wound up running around like a maniac when what I really wanted to do was just enjoy the environment. Dragons and Red Shirts gives me the opportunity to improve my writing skills by creating short stories out of the games I play and stream. This ensures that you, the reader, are getting the best out of me. As is all too common in writing of course, I just couldn't fit...

Welcome to Dragons & Redshirts where I give you, the listener a tiny look in at my life as I practice my professional writing! Catch all the podcast episodes on your favorite podcatcher or go to Linda Teppler.com to check out all my work. This series is about my adventures playing Valheim, an RPG by Iron Gate studios based in Sweden. In Episode 2 Grillain encounters more than she was ready for! In a way this episode reflects life. It feels very much like I'm beset on all sides by things I...

Valheim is a brand new early access survival/sandbox game from Iron Gate studios based in Sweden. In this episode, my character Grillain takes her very first steps in this brand new world. What will she do? Will she survive? Or will the world of Valheim prove too much for her? My Website: https://www.s0rceress0.com/ My Twitter: https://twitter.com/lteppler?lang=en Produced/Edited By: Che Dean

I'm afraid we have to announce the end of Beery Good Entertainment. We had three amazing years and I for one learned a huge amount about production and audio in that time. I just want to wish everyone involved the very best of luck with future projects. We had a lot of fun, I'm very proud of the Best of 2017, there was some great content in there, the Turing movie review episode really stands out for me and the Paddy's Day Special. I'd also like to say a heartfelt thank you to everyone that...

Welcome to episode #82 of ‘Beery Good Entertainment’. Lola, Linda, and Sy talk about what they've been watching over the past week. 'The Last Kingdom', watch or not? Lola watched 'Deadwater Fell' and shares her thoughts with you. Podcasting from the afterlife? HA! Cool. But what's up with the "repeating gif" of the water? As always it wouldn't be Beery without beer. The crew review a few very fine brews this week including 54-40 Brewing's Crushed Velvet IPA, Iron Horse Brewing's Aloha Velvet...

Welcome to episode #81 of ‘Beery Good Entertainment’. Lola, Linda, and Sy discuss life in the age of Covid-19. How is it affecting our everyday life? How do we do our regular shopping and stay safe? What's happening in our old age homes? Can you ever get over never shaking hands again? Why is Sy's keg losing weight, while he gains weight? Is it one of life's great mysteries? Should homeless people take what we give them? As usual, it wouldn't be a Beery episode without a few scoops of some...

Welcome to episode #80 of ‘Beery Good Entertainment’. Linda and Lola bring you their thoughts on the EPIX multifaceted reimagining of a timeless classic by H.G. Wells, War of the Worlds. Humanity struggles for survival against intelligent extraterrestrial life forms. As always they'll be sipping a couple of fine beverages and reviewing them for your listening pleasure. Enjoy! Presented by: @S0rceress0 (Linda) @LolaLariscy @SyBernot Producer/Production Manager: @CheDean If you're interested...

Welcome to episode #79 of ‘Beery Good Entertainment’. If you came down to your last day on Earth. Who would you spend it with? I would want to spend it with someone who enjoys a good beer. For two days we did just that in San Diego. Come with us as we visit our friend Sy Bernot to try out the Burger lounge for some Duckfoot beer, reveled in some sips at Stone brewing and relaxed at the historic Mission Brew building that now houses Latchkey Brewing. But that's not all! We also had a red...