Today's Topic: Pacing

Logan and Will get into the importance of pacing your plot points - mostly in your literary writing - throughout the course of your story, as well as a postmortem of the Joey Goebel interview from a few weeks back.

We're working on getting ourselves added to PodShow, so ignore this.

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Joey Goebel, author of Torture the Artist and The Anomalies calls in and has a hilarious phone interview with Will.

Pretty much a very random show! Will's shirtless, Logan's still single, and projects galore!

We're so, so, so late. We're sorry. It's summer and we've been doing stuff.

However, later I'll be providing some video content for you to peruse.

Craig Clevenger, author of The Contortionist's Handbook and Dermaphoria, has a sit-down with Logan to talk about just about everything, with twenty-nine and a half minutes of pure goodness.

New and leaner show setup!

The Interview Postmortem; Character creation and building; our Next Interview, and more!

Not a sad face, because we're just pushing the show back to allow the interview to have its full week or so. You've got plenty of content that was not easy for us to acquire already in the bag - so enjoy it, bastards.

We'll be back next week, or earlier if we feel particularly benevolent.

--Logan

Our interview with Stephen Graham Jones - author of The Fast Red Road, All the Beautiful Sinners, the Bleed Into Me collection, and the upcoming Demon Theory by MacAdam/Cage Publishing (April 2006).

Yes, we have our interview with Stephen Graham Jones (website) wrapped up, and I am currently going through and cleaning up the audio to make it as tight as possible.

I'm very excited to see where this takes us, as we have two more guaranteed interviews that will be happening over the next couple of months - I'm hoping to have one interview a month, but I'm not going to push it - and I am working on acquiring more people from all different areas of literary and filmmaking publication.

Needless to say, this is really cool.

--Logan

IN THIS EPISODE:

-- An all filmmaking show!

-- Logan talks about his student acting gig and gets overly self-absorbed

-- How independent filmmaking has never been better

-- The various methods of filmmaking publication

-- Announcing our first interview

-- More!

We were supposed to record last night, but one of my cords - the one that's not supposed to die - did. And the sound was really horrible.

Tonight's a really thick night for me, so we'll try again tomorrow. First rule of cords - if you think you need one, buy two. If you think you need two, buy eight.

However - don't fret, we've got three interviews lined up, and our first one is imminent, so we'll be recording it and then putting it up ASAP.

Hang with us!

--Logan

A whole lot of incomprehensible talk, and then some stuff on the different forms of literary publication.

Antagonists, The Cut-Away Technique, MC Frontalot, Pilotdrift, The Metrosexual Segment, Logan Fails at Love, and more!

Horrible audio quality, apologies; Acting; SEGMENT ONE: Dialogue; SEGMENT TWO: Outlining; More Tom Waits

ENHANCED podcast! The Mamet Memo, Character Deaths, Teen Dramas, Retractions, and more!

Occasionally I delude myself into thinking that we're doing a serious show, and then Will says something to reel me back in where I belong. It usually ends up along the lines of "Penis LOL" or other permutations. God bless the man.

Audacity is dead to me, now. I am officially making my move to acquire GarageBand 3. Ubercaster couldn't come fast enough, but they're taking their time to develop. Whether they make it to have a release in the first quarter of the calendar year, really remains to be seen - I have my doubts - but I do appreciate that they seem to be taking their time to not only develop it well, but also to not burn themselves out on it. One of the most hated enemies of open source development is that of overheating programmers.

Nevertheless, I have already switched to Quicktime Pro for the bulk of recording on my end; Audacity is such a resource hound. I don't mean to defame the program, as Will uses it on his Windows machine and hasn't reported any problems whatsoever, but I just think the version for OS X was rushed. Throughout the course of editing this past show, my computer crashed no less than twelve times. This is not an exaggeration; I counted at least twelve and then cried.

Show notes will get posted tomorrow, more than likely; I can't be bothered with it today, as right as I type this I'm waiting on my second class of the day, and have estimated that my time spent on campus will amount to a shade over twelve hours. Thursdays are no longer days of happiness for me, but Friday is a beacon of light, so I can spend some time re-listening to the show and typing up the links as I go.

As for audio quality - I know. Pops and clicks abound. The former comes from my amateur knowledge of this new microphone. I am actually amplifying most of what I say in editing, despite having the gain turned up to Eleven. I will have to see what I can do about that. But things like touching the microphone, playing with quarters, playing with ink pens, paper, etc. will cease next show. Hypothetically. When the show gets started and my neurotic ticks become pushed into the unconscious mind, you never know what can happen. I may actually chew on some chocolate. Next Show's Topics: Author Personas, Character Deaths

Intro, The Unstable Narrative, Short Story Cliches, Future Plans, Endless Blue - "Down"

We've got the show done. It's edited and everything.

The problem is that everytime I try to upload it over FTP, it starts uploading at a good speed, and then within about thirty seconds, winds down to less than 1 KB/s.

Very, very frustrating. I'll see if it's me and try to upload over my college's connection. I've been trying to upload all last night and it just wouldn't do it.

A quick message to the listeners about the show; Tom Waits' "Alice"

Will's back, following up last week, unique storytelling mediums, writing music and more!

Upcoming Equipment Upgrades; Where's Will?; Trying Too Hard; Robin Stine

TV Stealth Advertising, What We're Writing, Writers Groups, Top 3 Movies to Seduce a Woman, and more.

Neilsen Ratings, Video Games Laws, Shadow of the Colossus, GUN, Top Three Books to Read Between Semesters...