Somebody Write This Podcast

The audio version of this episode can be found here . Hannah: In the rural south, a bounty hunter struggles to partner with a young woman. 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 we 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, Shem Greenwood. Shem: Good afternoon. Hannah: We are very excited to have you here with us. And so before we get into our topic today, we just want to have a real quick chat with Shem and get to know him and his relationship with stories a little bit. And so I want to start with the fact that you teach high school English. I'm a teacher as well, also of high school and middle school, and so I'm curious, what stories or themes do you see today's high school students really connecting with, either...

The audio version of this episode can be found here . Hannah: 40 shady police detectives are asked to contact the daughter. 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 we 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, Jo Cassidy. Jo: Oh, thank you for having me. I'm so excited. Hannah: Oh, we're so excited to have you on. This is gonna be a lot of fun. Jo: And you're our first published author guests. We're so excited. Hannah: You are our first published author, and so I'm definitely going to ask you some questions about that. Jo: Yes. Hannah: First of all, I'm curious because I know you write mostly YA, young adult fiction What drew you specifically to YA work? Jo: Mostly because when I was in high s...

Doug Van Hollen sent in the beginning of chapter 3 for An Unbreakable Radio Cypher and John Wilkes Booth's Diary in Liverpool! We shared a piece of it on the podcast but here is what he sent in its entirety. Enjoy! CHAPTER 3 The alley was something of a rarity in New Liverpool; real estate was always at such a premium. At least it was until the whir-bombs turned the Southern Bank into "developable lots”. The alley was lined with industrial-size waste bins that glowed various shades of red and green to indicate their fullness, as well as awnings hanging over little stoops and porches that once held kitchen staff preening themselves on their breaks but now stood empty. Most of the rubble and loose urban detritus had been cleared off to the sides into oddly organic banks that hugged the backs of the buildings lining the alley. Fenster hovered well behind Westinghouse's elbow, poised, it seemed, to bolt back down Central Boulevard the way they had just come. "Are...

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 ...