Rationally Writing is a podcast about the genre of rational fiction and what goes into writing it, hosted by myself and fellow serial author Alexander Wales. We occasionally do reviews of books or movies, and have other rational-fiction writers join us for guest episodes.

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0. History

1. What is Rational Writing?

2. Tropes

3. Originality

4. Fanfiction

5. Rule of Cool

6. Magic Systems, Part 1

7. Magic Systems, Part 2

8. Types of Conflict

9. Antagonists, Part 1

10. Antagonists, Part 2

11. Story Structure, Part 1

12. Story Structure, Part 2

13. Prophecies

14. Time Travel

15. Multiverse

16. Serial Fiction, Part 1

17. Serial Fiction, Part 2

18. Writer’s Block (Guest: Eaglejarl)

19. Exposition

20. Religion in Fiction

21. Top Down Storytelling

22. Bottom Up Storytelling

23. The Force Awakens vs Rogue One

24. Beginnings

25. Endings

26. Tabletop RPGs vs Writing

27. Description

28. Creative Appropriation, Part 1

29. Creative Appropriation, Part 2

30. Literary Fiction

31. Action Scenes

32. Multiple Perspectives (Guest: TK17/Duncan Sabien)

33. Review of Pokemon: The Origin of Species (Spoilers up to Ch. 43)

34. Review of Dark Wizard of Donkerk (Spoilers)

35. Breaking the Story

36. Effective Brainstorming

37. Power Dynamics

38. The Medium of Prose Fiction

39. Children in Fiction

40. Review: The Prestige

41. Worldbuilding: Second Order Effects

42. Worth the Candle (Guest: CthulhuRaeJepsen)

43. Reader Feedback

44. Worldbuilding II (Guest: Erratic Errata)

45. Writing as a Skill (Guest: Kuiper)

46. Story Research

47. Timeskips

48. Romance

49. Ideological Turing Tests

50. Abandoning Stories

51. Character Flaws

52. Dropped Threads

53. Horror

54. Irrational Fiction

55. Politics in Fiction

56. Race in Fiction

57. Species in Fiction

58. Gender in Fiction

59. Worth the Candle Postmortem

60. Animorphs: The Reckoning Postmortem (Guest: TK17/Duncan Sabien)

61. Subverting Expectations (Guest: Jamie Wahls)

62. Money in Fiction

63. Reader Feedback II (Guest: Velorien)

64. Utopian Fiction

65. AI and Contemporary Fiction