Somebody Write This Podcast

Sorry this is late! Audio version of the episode can be found here . Hannah: A low-budget bodyguard is chosen by God to survive a serial killer's attack before a seemingly chance encounter seems too good to be true. Jennie: Somebody write this. Hannah: Hi, and welcome to Somebody Write This, where we use a random plot generator to give us an idea and then brainstorm how that could be a thing somebody might want to write. I'm Hannah. Jennie: And I'm Jennie. Hannah: And to help us with our brainstorming today, we have a guest. Welcome, Elise Svetz. Elise: Hi. Hannah: We're so excited you could join us today. As I was talking with Jennie and with you about your writing history and the stories that you like to study, I love that you have an area of expertise that we haven't really dealt with before. You worked a lot with medieval studies and medieval stories and with mythology and fairy tales. So I want to take a second to talk a little bit about your take...

I couldn't resist including a bizarre amount of colons in the title of this post... Here we have a writer submission from Kevin Megill based on episode 2, "The Computer: The Useless." Enjoy! Ah, Marie! You are an angel twice! Acting; also who you are to me. I captured every second, horribly, As the lorry slid across the ice, Toppling, rolling one time, two times, thrice. Useless automated CAV! Computer navigating pointlessly, But it was you who paid the heavy price! And I! – I boldly seized my chance to land A blow against the growing robot craze, To upload malware to the lorry -- and The hubris-wreckage lies before my gaze. I’ve ended so much more than I had planned. So who is useless now? And now who pays?

Audio version of the episode can be found here ! Enjoy. Hannah: A murder in the aftermath of the Civil War draws together a long-serving MI5 officer and a gentleman rat. Jennie: Somebody write this. Hannah: Hi, and welcome to Somebody Write This, where we use a random plot generator to give us an idea, and then brainstorm how that could be a thing somebody might want to write. I'm Hannah. Jennie: And I'm Jennie. Hannah: And to help us with our brainstorming today, we have a guest. Welcome, Doug Van Hollen. Doug: Hi. It's so great to be here. Hannah: I'm so glad you could join us. Doug and I were actually co-hosts on another podcast together that is on an indefinite hiatus, called Flick Fights, where we used the movie ranking website Flickchart to put two movies head to head and debated which one was better. That was how we first met each other. And I'm very excited that he's back on the podcast, particularly because he was one of the first ones as ...

Sorry this is so late, friends! Enjoy the transcript of our latest episode. Hannah: An American family unwittingly comforts his older brother's wife and children. Jennie: Somebody write this. Hannah: Hi, and welcome to Somebody Write This, where we use a random plot generator to give us an idea and then brainstorm how that could be a thing somebody might want to write. I'm Hannah. Jennie: And I'm Jennie. Hannah: And to help us with our brainstorming today, we have a guest. Welcome to the podcast, Ginny. Ginny: Thank you. Excited to be here. Hannah: Yeah, yeah. This is a friend of actually both ours and Jennie's. We met years and years and years ago on an online chat site and have stayed in touch for a really long time. Ginny: So long. It's wild. Hannah: Ginny is, obviously as most of our guests are, is a writer. I'm going to start with my very basic question. Tell me a little bit about your taste profile as either a writer or a consumer of stor...