If you’re a reader that loves a good story, or an indie author with a story to tell. This is the podcast for you… come on in.
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Live readings by poets, fiction writers and playwrights. Bare Fiction is dedicated to promoting, producing, presenting and publishing new writing in all forms. This is our weekly podcast of live readings by poets, fiction writers and playwrights. Bare Fiction | Registered in England and Wales. Company No. 8798494
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It has been a century since the immortal witch Baba Yaga last visited the world, and the hour draws nigh for her return. But when she fails to appear in the frozen realm of Irrisen to usher in its newest ruler, pockets of winter begin to grow throughout the Inner Sea. After 1,400 years of perpetual winter, the icy curse of Irrisen is spreading! What links do these strange blizzards and swaths of wintry landscapes have with Irrisen, and is there any truth to the growing rumors that the Witch ...
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A man. A time capsule. A whole load of good times. All the views expressed in this are purely fiction and any likeness and resemblance to people in the real world are purely coincidental. All the views expressed in any of the episodes are mine, and mine alone (unless there's a guest).
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Tiffin Inn Writing Workshop (with Imposter Syndrome & Unlimited Refills)
Arthur Franz IV, Tim Goodwin
An author is published regularly. Tim Goodwin and Art Franz are "writers," the people who work and scrape and publish (on occasion) but mostly faceplant, rise, brush off, and repeat. What does it take to learn how to tell good stories? How can I fully realize my characters? How do I gather quality feedback on works in progress? What can I do to punch through writer's block? What must we do to publish work in today's media landscape? No, really. We're asking. But we are also answering! Join T ...
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In another desperate attempt to get more and more people to read Bakarmax, we present to you Bakarmax Baatcheet - a comic & animation podcast where we talk on subjects that are as varied as the comics on Bakarmax - from science fiction to Gulab Jamuns, shape-shifting tatti to daaru-shitting dwarfs and Tour De France winning Rickshawallahs. But Bakarmax Baatcheet is not just silly humour, it's a forum to discuss desi ideas, unexplored stories, adult animation and, at times, about our own intr ...
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Star Wave Sky creates family friendly entertainment and content for all ages. Star Wave Sky provides clean comedy, kids podcasts, children's podcasts, safe for work SFW podcasts, Christian podcasts, and clean podcasts. Star Wave Sky is currently focused on making podcast episodes about Teen Titans Go! SpongeBob SquarePants Star Wars: Visions Avatar: The Last Airbender Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures Dragons: The Nine Realms We Bare Bears We Baby Bears and the TV show called I Heart Arlo We plan ...
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Along with her own financial chaos, Amy Sharp had a 14 year old son hellbent on trying every street drug he could find. In an attempt to save her sanity, she started writing a story about the inner world of a woman like herself, living on the BC coast while her reality rippled and rolled._______ A year later, she had a professionally edited 93,000 word manuscript. After more twists and turns, she got a grant from Canada Media Fund to create the first episode in video.______ Alexine's sex pos ...
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Flash Fiction: Fairytale
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For this episode, we are visiting the flash fiction writing prompt; Fairytale. We've chosen three excellent stories for your listening pleasure: Fizzle by JC Christie. The Shining Tree by JJ Grafton. Fairytale by CA Deegan. They are a mix of light, traditional and thought provoking. Be careful what you wish for! Three unique interpretations of a si…
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Gamifying your Writing Process
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Tim and Art discuss how to use role-playing games and writing activities to gamify your creative process. They also tease an important takeaway from next week's interview episode with author Bethany Jarmul about the importance of having a "turn" in your story. Tim and Art are ready to help! Join the conversation at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.co…
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The CA Deegan Interview
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In this episode, we have read and reviewed Dorcas by CA Deegan. It is a standalone novel based on one character from the Cracklock Saga. Bad things happen to good folk; such is the nature of the world... Learn more about Craig and the entire Cracklock Saga right here > facebook/TheCracklockSaga ______________________ You can find Bare Books Flash F…
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Tim makes a case for the value in revisiting old work, then gives an update on his novel progress. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.Von Tim Goodwin
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Flash Fiction - She Wished the Walls Would Stop Talking
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For our second episode this season, we are visiting our first flash fiction writing prompt; She Wished the Walls Would Stop Talking. We're bringing you two stories on this episode, one from Daizi Rae and one from Craig Deegan. they are a mix of dark, disturbing and amusing. Two very different takes on one prompt. ______________________ You can find…
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Learning Secrets from Your Older Work
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Tim and Art discuss the value of revisiting older drafts to understand your writing journey. Whether it is to mine your past for story prompts, searching for promising unfinished work to revise, or just to plot your improvement over time, revisiting your past work can offer clues on how to better approach your current and future drafts. Tim and Art…
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The JJ Grafton Interview
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For our first episode this season, we chatted with JJ Grafton about her novel, Forever Night: Circles of Confusion II. Ten years ago, Jilly, Tina and Leon commited a terrible crime. They were never brought to justice. Now it's payback time. You can buy Forever Night on Amazon right here > https://amzn.eu/d/0DJ57Qt ______________________ You can fin…
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Is your creative battery drained or running low? Art describes how using role-playing can help free up your internal editor and create opportunities to explore new characterization. Art shares a story from his early role-playing days that demonstrates how a simple game can free you up to find unexpected studies in character. Tim and Art are here to…
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It’s so good to be back. Season 9 is upon us; more reading, more reviews, more interviews, getting to know nine new authors. More flash fiction - eight writing prompts and stories to write and share. You can find Bare Books Flash Fiction Anthology Volume llI on Amazon. Sales from this book are what will keep us promoting indie authors for FREE xx S…
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Putting Your Characters Under Stress
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Tim and Art return for Season 4 by revisiting the fundamentals. Is your story missing something? Does your main character glide through your story with very little at stake? Is the action happening "around" them rather than your character struggling through it? Tim and Art present four easy button concepts to apply to ensure that you put your chara…
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Episode 154 – Ray of F*** You
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After escaping the events at the monastery, Team Torta goes to the next castle (barracks?) to save the princess! A gruesome, hair-raising foe stands in their way. What lengths will the party members go to in order to save Anastasia Romanov from the clutches of Rasputin? And what will they do afterwards? The Fantastic Worlds Podcast is a Fantastic W…
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Prepping for the Next Draft of a Novel
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With Season 4 just around the corner, Tim and Art offer a glimpse into their unscripted conversations about their own work. Up this week, Art responds to Tim's novel draft with encouragement and a path forward. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.…
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Episode 153: Into the Bare-acks
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Camp-life – Team Torta edition. It’s time to do some sneaking, and hopefully this new location doesn’t totally suck. Pippa scouts ahead as the rest trail behind as the players learn more about Rasputin’s central stronghold. The mysteries of the monastery and the surrounding prison camp lay ahead of them as Team Torta delves deep into enemy territor…
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Episode 152 – A Serious Brain Freeze
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You! Shall! Not! Pass! After an eventful 5-mile hike, Team Torta finds themselves staring out at a literal No-Man’s Land. But this time, no Wonder Woman will be there to help them break through enemy lines. Tanks loom! Infantry swarms! How will the party make it through to the other side where a mysterious prison camp awaits? The Fantastic Worlds P…
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Episode 151- A Game of Telephone
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There is a time to fight and there is a time to recover. Team Torta surveys the remnants of the battle and helps the surviving members of the destroyed town. With down time suddenly at their fingertips, the members of Team Torta turn inward and dwell on their own personal issues. But what one person learns, so must another. Ring ring…let’s play som…
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Queer the Shelves - Heart and Heat
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This Episode brings you highlights from the Heart and Heat panel and the Writers without Borders panel from the Queer the Shelves festival at the end of June. Along with interviews with CJ DeBarra, Julie Cohen and Brey Willows. facebook: barebookspodcast Instagram: barebookspodcast twitter: barebookspod1 For general enquiries. To submit your flash …
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Queer the Shelves - Creative Crossroads
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This Episode brings you highlights from the Creative Crossroads panel and the Literary Chameleons panel from the Queer the Shelves festival at the end of June. Along with interviews with Chloe Keto, Thom Seddon and Nathan Burgoine. facebook: barebookspodcast Instagram: barebookspodcast twitter: barebookspod1 For general enquiries. To submit your fl…
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Queer The Shelves - Repping the Rainbow
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This Episode brings you an introduction to Queer the Shelves with Nicci Robinson from Global Wordsmiths. Plus highlights from the Repping the Rainbow panel and the Weaving the Dark panel from the Queer the Shelves festival at the end of June. Along with interviews with E.V. Bancroft, Simon Smalley and Jourdyn Kelly. facebook: barebookspodcast Insta…
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Welcome to our shortest season ever. Season 8 will be three amazing episodes dedicated solely to the Queer the Shelves festival that was hosted at Nottingham Central Library by Nicci and Victoria of Global Wordsmiths. facebook: barebookspodcast Instagram: barebookspodcast twitter: barebookspod1 For general enquiries. To submit your flash fiction st…
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Episode 150 – An Agile Corgisbord of Pain and Suffering
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Let’s get this party started! However, Team Torta doesn’t really want to be invited to this one. Corpses pile up and the gang is threatened on all sides. Slash! Blast! Burn! Boom! SMITE! Time to fight in the ruins of a battlefield! The Fantastic Worlds Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Productions. Theme song created and composed by Amy Hawkenson Music…
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Season 3 Finale - Expanding Your Creativity
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Tim and Art look back at Season 3 for lessons learned and cast their gaze forward at Season 4. Even during the hiatus, Tim and Art are here to help. Email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get the conversation started.Von Arthur Franz IV, Tim Goodwin
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The ”ideal reader” is that one person in the world, whether real or imagined, who really GETS what we are trying to do and who LOVES our take on fiction. In this Refill episode, Art demonstrates how Q&A can help you define what your "ideal reader" looks like. Knowing this can help you stay focused on the kind of fiction you want to produce as well …
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Episode 149 – Dermatologist Approved
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War has come for Team Torta! The hut is on the attack, but what exactly are the members attacking? And where exactly are they? It’s nyet time for hasty decisions, so perhaps the best defense is an offense. This mechanical beast is proving a threat – will the Team be able to withstand? The Fantastic Worlds Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Productions. …
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Setting Higher Standards
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Have you ever been less than satisfied with your work in progress? Your latest drafts have you rethinking fundamental decisions you've made as a writer? Then join us as Tim cousels Art through his crisis of conscience about the quality of his work in progress. What should Art do to get back to the "good stuff"? In this episode, we reference a publi…
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Episode 148 – Rage Against the Machine
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War has come for Team Torta! The hut is on the attack, but what exactly are the members attacking? And where exactly are they? It’s nyet time for hasty decisions, so perhaps the best defense is an offense. This mechanical beast is proving a threat – will the Team be able to withstand? The Fantastic Worlds Podcast is a Fantastic Worlds Productions. …
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Episode 147 – Literal Foreshadowing
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Shadows of the present flee as shadows of the past loom once more. New room, new you? Maybe so if you’re ok with brushing away the dust and forging anew. Our team of Guys and Dolls marches on as they explore deeper into Baba Yaga’s hut as they search for an exit and information on this new world! This Team Torta family is ready to go in this exciti…
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It can be worthwhile to journal about your flaws, whether real or imagined. This is one of the many obstacles we face on our journey to create art. Art demonstrates how to be introspective and critique your own work as a way to refocus and improve rather than giving in to negative thinking. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinI…
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Getting Motivated After Rejections
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Tim and Art discuss their submission goals and lay out how to mentally bounce back from rejections and stay focused on your fiction. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.Von Arthur Franz IV, Tim Goodwin
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Getting Inspired to Revise Your Fiction
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Tim and Art discuss how to get back into the right frame of mind to revise your fiction. When we decide to go back, why does that first draft read so much worse than we remember? How can you begin again once you've lost the initial spark of creativity? What's the right way to resume work without messing up what you've already done? Tim and Art are …
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Art discusses the process of "Active Reading" as a way to pan for gold in published stories. Reading authors with intentionality and purpose can help unlock elements of style or voice that you want to adopt. Art presents a method for getting the most writing benefit out of your reading experience. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at …
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Feedback Session for Art's Short Story
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Tim provides feedback on Art's story "Donut Fridays" from last week's Refill episode. This unscripted feedback session on Art's story is intended to demonstrate best practices of giving and receiving feedback with a trusted beta reader. Tim asks open-ended questions about choices Art made in the story, resulting in a "to do" list of things for Art …
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Art reads his 825-word short story "Donut Fridays" into the record in preparation for Tim's feedback during next week's episode. Art is open to your feedback, so if you want to share your thoughts on this draft of the story, email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to help Art make this story the best it can be.…
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Tim and Art discuss their experiences in gaining (and losing and regaining) confidence in their writing output. They discuss how they know when a piece is “done” and ready for submission. They also reveal how imperative it is to reject the arrogance that sustained them in their youth because ultimately it made it harder to improve as professionals.…
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In this episode of Bakarmax Baatcheet, Sumit Kumar & Abhinandan Sekhri talk about their experience of creating India's best-selling political graphic novel - Kashmir Ki Kahani, how to be an editor & why you should not eat Maggi after 5 pm. - Buy your copy of Kashmir Ki Kahani: https://store.bakarmax.com/buy/comics/kashmir-ki-kahani/- Buy your copy …
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Art presents four ways to recharge your creativity when your discipline is high but the quality or quantity of your writing output is just not cutting it. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.Von Arthur Franz IV
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Vignettes and Flashbacks
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Tim and Art explore how vignettes, brief episodes within your larger narrative, and flashbacks, small stories from a character's past, can help illuminate character or create tension in the forward action. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.…
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Tim and Art are here to help you with your fiction. Yes, yours! E-mail us at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to inquire about our wrtiting coaching, proofing, copyediting, and workshop services.Von Arthur Franz IV, Tim Goodwin
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Tim explores some best practices on how to choose where to submit your fiction for publication. Reach out to us with questions at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get the conversation started.Von Tim Goodwin
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Honing Your Writing Process (feat. Scott Farrin)
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Tim and Art welcome guest Scott Farrin to the corner booth to discuss honing your writing process. Scott Farrin has taught writing in varied forms for over twenty years, composition, technical writing, journalism and creative writing. A writer himself as well as a professor of English at Collin College, Scott Farrin has published in journals such a…
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Creatives at Copper Cogs - Live Flash Fiction Writing Event
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Welcome to our bonus episode to round off season seven. We were invited along to Copper Cogs in Long Eaton to talk about what the podcast is about, and specifically about writing flash fiction. We had a fabulous evening. Massive thanks to everyone that came along and wrote flash fiction stories at a moments notice. And most of all for daring to sha…
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Art explores how he has shifted his mindset from writing to "drafting" as a clever way to trick his brain into enjoying the rough draft process. Art offers seven steps for his process to keep the work engaging. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.…
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Finding Your Writing Voice: Playing with Form and Function
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Tim and Art explore ways you can discover your writing voice through playing with different forms within your early drafts. Adopting new forms (such as prose poetry, screenplays, haiku, etc.) as an avenue of play can unlock new directions in your work. Even if you try and discard or try and adopt, the work of trying can lead to new ideas and help y…
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Art explores how he uses the Refill episodes as a rationale for dispelling doubt and continuing to push forward in improving his craft. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.Von Arthur Franz IV
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Self Publishing with Guest Kalynn Applewhite
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Tim and Art welcome guest author Kalynn Applewhite to the corner booth to discuss her process in staying disciplined year-round in writing as well as a glimpse into her self-publishing successes. Kalynn Applewhite is a writer at heart with a lifetime love of fantasy. She is a work-at-home mom and lead creator for Applewhite Games. Through her books…
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Flash Fiction: The Harris Burdick Image
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The last two flash fiction stories of season 7 were written with a Harris Burdick image in mind. And boy, we were not disappointed with the submissions for this prompt. We're sharing I Don't Want to Behave, written by Carolyn Ward-Daniels. And The Quest, written by Bob Sharp. Massive thanks to everyone that submitted flash fiction stories for this …
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Tim explores how to process constructive feedback and turn that into action on a future draft. Tim and Art are here to help, so email the show at TiffinInnWritingWorkshop@gmail.com to get your conversation started.Von Tim Goodwin
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The Jude Lennon Interview
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For this episode, Jude Lennon. joins us for an enlightening conversation about her novel Kintsugi. A family saga that spans decades and shows us that our lives are every bit as fragile as the most delicate bone china. ~You can find this seasons indie authors on our social media, if you want to read along. You can also find the full list of all ten …
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Feedback Demo for Tim's Flash Fiction
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Tim and Art demonstrate best practices of giving and receiving feedback with an unscripted feedback session on Tim's flash fiction! Join us as we hear Tim's story read into the record, Art asking open-ended questions about choices Tim made in the story, Art's impression of the work, written feedback from editors who passed on the story, and finally…
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Flash Fiction: image prompt (dog on a beach)
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Two fluffy canine flash fiction stories for your listening pleasure this week, from the writing prompt, which was an image of a dog on a beach. Presenting; Coco, written and narrated by April Berry. Followed by Bad Boys, written by George Thomson, and narrated by Daizi Rae. Massive thanks to everyone that submitted flash fiction stories for this wr…
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REWIND: Balancing Writing & Full-Time Employment
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Tim and Art transport you back in time to Season 1 with a new segment we are calling a "REWIND." We plan to release our regularly scheduled REFILL episode as a Bonus later this month whenever Art's voice no longer crackles like a campfire (thanks, mystery virus!). This episode originally aired on April 25, 2023. Ever struggled to find the time (or …
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