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Bad Lit Friends is a writing podcast that barely knows what it's doing. And that’s the point. Hosted by fiction writers Meagan Thompson-Mann and Kirk Rafferty, this show is equal parts craft discussion, existential despair, ego massage, and wildly unsolicited hot takes.Each episode blends honest conversations about the creative process, the publishing industry, and the messiness of trying to create highfalutin art, with hot-and-occasionally-right takes, and a dash of internet drama. If you've ever felt like you're writing into the void, you're not alone — grab a seat, bring your worst draft.
Unknown Host hosts Bad Lit Friends, a arts show with 48 episodes published.
In this episode, we're celebrating "Hot Goss Summer" with our biggest haul of book-world nonsense yet. We wade into the polluted Oceans of PDF, and break down (loudly) why your arguments in favor of piracy sucks. We also
This week, Bad Lit Friends gets all practical-like as we whack our way through the writing tools jungle: the good, the bad, and the ones that should absolutely come with a content warning. Up for dissection are the big h
In this episode, we wade into one of the filthiest pools in the bookish world: whether you can separate the art from the artist—and what supporting a problematic creator says about you, your values, and where your money
We're back from our unplanned hiatus with most of our brains intact! This week we're diving into dialogue: how to make your characters sound like real live humans talking to each other as opposed to two robots exchanging
We're not dead! Well, Kirk is only mostly dead, nursing the dreaded lurgy (mostly upright and occasionally coherent!) and Meagan is back from getting hitched in the Bay Area, so this week you get almost three minutes of
ATTENTION S'IL VOUS PLAÎT Bad Lit Friends is on a brief and extremely glamorous hiatus this week: Meagan got MARRIED and Madame Covid has captured Kirk in her warm, virulent embrace. Between a wedding and a plague, we de
Part Three of the Author Industrial Complex—we promise this is the last one! This week: the passion v. the grind (and what happens when your deeply beloved creative pursuit starts feeling like a second job you definitely
We're back with Part 2 of The Author Industrial Complex, a series that was totally planned and not just us having too many feelings and very little discipline! This week, we discuss how to balance serving your readers wi
This week, Meagan is away, and Kirk is joined by fantasy author Anne Wells for an in-depth conversation about the emotional craft of fiction writing: how to bring all the feels instead of just pelting readers with plot p
This week we're talking about all the ways authors are pulled in opposing directions: branding, marketability, genre expectations, comp titles, platform anxiety, and the increasingly cursed reality that writing a book al
Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! The Court of Bad Lit Friends is now in session, and the defendants have been waiting a looooong time for their day of reckoning. In this episode, we don our very snazzy judicial robes and put character
Description: This week, we’re talking villains: the delicious ones, the flat ones, and the ones you love to ruin your main characters' lives with. We get into what separates a villain from an antagonist, why your best ba
Kirk is at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference this week, so Meagan has done the only possible thing and invited her best friend since college, playwright/screenwriter/cultural critic/general force of nature Regina Alexand
This week we throw BookTok on the pyre. Meagan sacrificed her wholesome cats and makeup tutorials algorithm just to research this episode for you, dear listener. Now it's shadow daddies and Colleen Hoover. You’re welcome
This week we're talking to author Isaac Grijalva about his debut novel 6 ½ Days in the City , an LGBTQIA contemporary novel about a bisexual, burnt-out EMT who's finally confronting trauma and healing during a life-alter
This week on Bad Lit Friends, we tackle the pressing question of what writers actually owe their readers. And sorry, it's not food. After catching up on the ongoing Mia Ballard AI witch hunt and why journalism is dead (a
Ah, capitalism! BLF gets all topical as we dive into the Mia Ballard Shy Girl debacle and spoiler alert: we're not here to pile on Mia. We've got bigger, smellier fish to fry, starting with the Big Five publisher who som
This week we're revisiting some old Hot Gos, and seeing what's changed. Also a new hot gos that we hope to never revisit again because yuck. Welcome to Bad Lit Friends. We’re glad you’re here, even if none of us know wha
This week, BLF's all about our agent wish list: all the things we wish literary agents would do better. (You're all perfect though! Utterly and thoroughly!) We are back in the trenches (deal with it, PubTips gatekeepers)
In this episode, we explore the complex landscape of social media and why it's all evil evil evil. We talk about our own personal experiences with social media, going all the way back to the halcyon days of Usenet, MySpa
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