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Below we present the complete text of The Center Won’t Hold; episode 4 of Mort Flintwich and the Outworlder War. Mort Flintwich and the Outworlder War EPISODE #4 – The Center Won’t Hold by Philip Craig Robotham Cover illustration by Philip Craig Robotham Copyright 2022 Philip Craig Robotham Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND […]
Below we present the complete text of Navigating the Web of Lies; episode 1 of Those Who are Lost. Those Who are Lost EPISODE #1 – Navigating the Web of Lies by Philip Craig Robotham Cover illustration by Philip Craig Robotham Copyright 2022 Philip Craig Robotham Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) […]
I’m going to state the obvious; writing audio drama is not the same as writing a novel, short story, screenplay, or stage play. One of the most obvious ways this is true relates to setting. In a narrative, the setting can be described and brought to life for the reader. In a play or film, […]
Below we present the complete text of Don’t Stare Too Long; episode 3 of Mort Flintwich and the Outworlder War. Mort Flintwich and the Outworlder War EPISODE #3 – Don’t Stare Too Long by Philip Craig Robotham Cover illustration by Philip Craig Robotham Copyright 2022 Philip Craig Robotham Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC […]
Below we present the complete text of Never Send to Know; episode 2 of Mort Flintwich and the Outworlder War. Mort Flintwich and the Outworlder War EPISODE #2 – Never Send to Know by Philip Craig Robotham Cover illustration by Philip Craig Robotham Copyright 2022 Philip Craig Robotham Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC […]
Below we present the complete text of No Good Deed; episode 1 of Mort Flintwich and the Outworlder War. Mort Flintwich and the Outworlder War EPISODE #1 – No Good Deed by Philip Craig Robotham Cover illustration by Philip Craig Robotham Copyright 2022 Philip Craig Robotham Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) […]
The Cthulhu Mythos of H.P Lovecraft was inspired by numerous writers and expanded by numerous collaborators in his lifetime. Admired by H.P Lovecraft, Robert W. Chambers contributed the earliest elements of the mythos surrounding the Yellow King, the madness inducing play “the King in Yellow”, and the eldritch city of Carcosa. Robert W. Chambers(1895) Public […]
Finally, I present the rather anti-climactic end to my look at Aristotle’s Poetics. Here Aristotle explores a few ancillary topics before giving some final advice on what constitutes a good drama. By finishing this final summary, though its value to writers is, I think, limited, it does give this project some sense of closure.. Chapter […]
The Cthulhu Mythos of H.P Lovecraft was inspired by numerous writers and expanded by numerous collaborators in his lifetime. Admired by H.P Lovecraft, The Death of Halpin Frayser was an influential story about a man haunted by his dead mother when he failed to keep a promise because of misfortune. Ambrose Bierce(in Can Such Things […]
Believable Dialog Dialog concentrates meaning. While speech in real life sprawls and weaves and contradicts itself and follows tangents and gets lost and sometimes finds its way to the point via a circuitous route, dialog (with appropriate allowances for characterisation) homes in on the essential meaning in what is being said. This is, in my […]
Universal Style for Audio Writers Strunk and White’s little pamphlet on style has been in use for decades and provides helpful principles for writers. Their guide is a classic and is full of useful advice. The advice should be followed judiciously, however. Sometimes characterisation requires us to break these rules (some characters are meant to […]
This week we turn our attention to the practical use of punctuation and how understanding it can help improve our writing. Punctuation isn’t grammar. But it does govern how we express grammar and, if we are audio dramatists, how a line and its meaning is communicated to an actor. It is the writer’s responsibility to […]
