Good Writing Podcast
The Good Writing Podcast is a show for creative writers who want to nerd out on craft. Two friends, Emily Donovan and Benjamin Kerns, read their favorite sentences, paragraphs, and other short excerpts and present craft lessons and writing exercises for fellow writers.
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Episodes
Monday Nov 29, 2021
Monday Nov 29, 2021
This episode is as American as Olive Garden, and then we celebrate by going to Disney World.
How can writers use setting to draw out characters’ internal drama and make their characters confront their conflicts?
“Why I Take All My First Dates to Olive Garden” by Kristen Arnett (2019)
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (2021)
Good Writing is a podcast where two MFA friends read like writers and lay out craft for fellow writers to steal. Co-hosted by Emily Donovan and Benjamin Kerns.
Email: goodwritingpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: https://www.goodwritingpodcast.com/
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Monday Nov 22, 2021
Brian Evenson is a writer of literary horror, whatever that means, and he shows us how writers can smartly use information’s absence to allow for a more interactive reading experience.
Did Ben use the word “ontology” correctly in this episode? He’s not quite sure, to be honest.
“Altmann’s Tongue” (1994) by Brian Evenson
Good Writing is a podcast where two friends read like writers and lay out craft for fellow writers to steal. Co-hosted by Emily Donovan and Benjamin Kerns.
Email: goodwritingpodcast@gmail.com Website: https://www.goodwritingpodcast.com/
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Monday Nov 15, 2021
Grammar alert! A complicated sentence and a clever description make Emily do a double-take in our first episode. Plus, even Jane Austen put her first manuscript in a drawer and came back to it later.
CTRL+F for this sentence here (Pride and Prejudice is in the public domain)
Listen to two friends book club this chapter on the Pod and Prejudice podcast
Good Writing is a podcast where two friends read like writers and lay out craft for fellow writers to steal. Co-hosted by Emily Donovan and Benjamin Kerns.
Email: goodwritingpodcast@gmail.comWebsite: https://www.goodwritingpodcast.com/
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Wednesday Nov 10, 2021
Welcome to the Good Writing Podcast! We're a new podcast where two fiction writer friends nerd out on writing craft.
Subscribe to the show if you're:
☑ a writer looking for inspiration
☑ a book nerd looking for passion
☑ one of our friends or family members
Co-hosted by Emily Donovan and Benjamin Kerns.
Want to get in touch? Email us at goodwritingpodcast@gmail.com. or check us out at https://www.goodwritingpodcast.com/
Benjamin Kerns
Ben (co-host) is a writer living in Florida with his wife and their cat. He edits the Magazine1 literary magazine. He writes fiction with a penchant for the weird and unexpected.
Emily Donovan
Emily (co-host) is writer living in Colorado with several struggling houseplants. She writes jokes disguised as literary fiction.