Drunken Pen Writing Podcast

In this episode, we briefly discuss creative funks and how to get out of them. But we spend much, much more time discussing old soda commercial slogans. Fortunately, this helps us fight the funk as we sit back and SURGEEEEEE!

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It was a dark and stormy night, the beer fell down our throats in torrents, except when we missed our mouths and soiled our trousers. 

Today, we cover what is considered to be the worst opening line to a novel in all of human history. But don't take our word for it. There's a whole contest dedicated to it! We discuss why the opening sentence is bad, then read a bunch of winners and losers from the 2019 Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest.

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We discuss some changes coming to DPW, as well as our writers' lounge and where our current writing output is. There's also plenty of other nonsense thrown in, including a quick conversation on why we think people don't like to read anymore.

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We're changing things up and talking about bad books today! More specifically, we discuss when and why you might give up on a book before finishing. How far do you read a bad book before dumping it? What pushed you over the edge and made you trash it? We also talk about how writers can get and keep readers interested in their books so they don't find their novels tossed into filthy garbage cans.

But before all that noise, Caleb regales us with a recap of his weekend trip to the Virginia mountains and the beach.

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We spend some time discussing the dos and don't of writing burbs. We also read a few examples of good book blurbs and then we do an awful job of coming up with blurbs for some of our stories.

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We begin this episode with Caleb talking about his recent experience of reading Moby Dick. This segues into a full-blown discussion about some of the most overrated novels in history. Then we go on about what books we feel are overrated and some stuff that we think is underrated. 

We also briefly talk about our current Halloween Submission Period. If you're a writer, you don't want to miss out. 

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Hey! This is our first episode from the new DPW Podcast studio. Or at least, the under-construction studio. We still have a bit to do.

 

In this episode, we talk about current events with DPW, future projects, and our plans with DPW going forward. It's a pretty chill vibe on this one.

 

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In this episode, we discuss the move to our new podcast studio. Then we talk about Spencer and his anger toward his most viral comic book article. Finally, after a lot of nonsense, we get into the topic at hand and talk about a bunch of weird comic books that would make great movies or tv show adaptations. 

 

We also want to let you know that the DPW Podcast has recently made it onto FeedSpot's list of their top 30 writing podcasts. Check it out at https://blog.feedspot.com/writing_podcasts/

 

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In this episode, we discuss the wild novel "The Hike" by Drew Magary. There's so much to unpack in this one. So we highly recommend reading the book before listening to this episode. Also, we SPOIL the ENTIRE novel as we break down the whole thing. 

 

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J.K. Rowling has been acting like a giant butthole and we talk about it. But that's not all we talk about. In fact, we have a long discussion about some bad writing habits you should kick and how to better improve your life as a writer. There's a lot of real-world advice in this episode that can be applied to your life outside of the arts as well.

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