On Riting

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!

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, 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

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 (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 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 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, 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 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.

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, 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

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.