When your characters push boundaries, defy authority, and get down and dirty -- well, how do they do it, where do they do it, and just how much trouble are they going to get in? In this episode, guest Elsa Sjunneson joins us for an extremely naughty exploration of obscenity and transgression.
Engaging with obscenity means building complex social dynamics within your world and communicating those ideas to your reader. How can you bring all of that across? How do you show your reader what's normal and what's considered disreputable, dirty, or downright degenerate?
Transcript of Episode 69 (with both thanks and, in this case, apologies to our wonderful scribes!)
Our Guest: Hugo, Aurora and British Fantasy Award Award winner Elsa Sjunneson writes and edits speculative fiction and non-fiction. She has been a finalist for the Best Fan Writer and Best Semiprozine Hugo Awards, a winner of the D. Franklin Defying Doomsday Award, and a finalist for the Best Game Writing Nebula Award. Her debut memoir Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman’s Fight to End Ableism was released by Tiller Press (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) October 5, 2021.
Episode 70: Magical Ethics and Ethical Magics ft. KATE HEARTFIELD
Episode 68: Potpour-V
Episode 67: WorldCon Minisode
Episode 66: Deep History, ft MARIE BRENNAN and ALYC HELMS
Episode 65: Money Makes The Worldbuilding Go ‘Round
Episode 64: The Times, They Are A-Changin‘, ft. FONDA LEE
Episode 63: It’s A Grimdark World After All ft. ANNA SMITH SPARK
Episode 62: Otherworldly Worldbuilding ft. SEANAN MCGUIRE
Episode 61: Worldbuilding: The Search for Intelligent Life ft. MARTHA WELLS
Episode 60: Worldbuilding: The Never-Ending Story
Episode 59: Ooooh, Shiny! Crafting a World from Shiny Ideas
Episode 58: L’Etat, C’est… Quoi? ft. C.L. POLK
Episode 57: Ask a Necromancer ft. AMANDA DOWNUM
Episode 56: Word Building ft. SARAH BETH DURST
Episode 55: Epic GrimDarkPunk Romance
Episode 54: Cyberpunk Worldbuilding ft. PJ MANNEY
Episode 53: Worldbuilding 301
Episode 52: Pot4ri
Episode 51: Gender, Equality, & Gender Equality ft. E.J. BEATON
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