Talk Fiction Meg Oolders

Content consideration: This episode marks the creator’s decision to slap an E (explicit) stamp on this podcast moving forward. Because talking candidly about writing and salty language go hand in hand, apparently. You’ve been advised.

Welcome back to Talk Fiction, the podcast dedicated to entertainment media’s most overlooked underdogs: Fiction writers.
In this episode, professional dream chaser, Meg Oolders, matches minds with expert goal getter, Amran Gowani, in a dynamic duo log about the pleasures and perils of writing a huge ass book. From pantsing (or plotting) to publication (or not) and everything in between.
This one’s an ear full. But who better to deliver “real talk” about the novel writing experience than two maniacs who have actually done it, and are crazy enough to want to do it again?
Please give it up for my guest on his recent Big Five publishing deal for his debut novel, Leverage. I had the unique opportunity to read the director’s cut of Amran’s book before almost everyone, and I am thrilled to see both book and author getting their due. Let the record show, I snagged an intimate interview with this up and comer before he got super famous.
Let. The. Record. Show.

Guest: Amran Gowani
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Host: Meg Oolders
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Music: Birds of the Meadow by Josh Ritter


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Welcome back to Talk Fiction, a podcast dedicated to entertainment media's most overlooked underdogs: Fiction writers.
In this episode, yours truly, Meg Oolders, talks with fellow writer and multitude Ben Wakeman about avoiding the rut of niche-ness, embracing AI (for what it is), fostering empathy for the betterment of humanity, and about returning to the workforce after a full (but fleeting) creative immersion.
Guest: Ben Wakeman
Catch & Release
The Memory of My Shadow
Harmony House

Host: Meg Oolders
Stock Fiction
See Dot Smile


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Welcome back to Talk Fiction, the podcast dedicated to entertainment media’s most overlooked underdogs: Fiction writers.
In this episode, yours truly, Stock Fiction creator Meg Oolders, has a cozy fireside chat with micro-fiction maestro, Justin Deming, about his courageous leap into self-publishing, self-promotion, and self-marketing for his fifty-word story collection, 50 Fifties.
We talk shop about writing micro-fiction and highlight the amazing community of fire-gazers Justin has cultivated with his bi-weekly Fifties by the Fire gatherings, hosted on his popular Substack, Along the Hudson.  
Later we delve into our respective novel writing experiences, and chat about future leaps for our current works-in-progress.
And no fiction writer discourse would be complete without addressing everyone’s favorite confidence-crushing anti-muse: The inner critic.  
Guest: Justin Deming
Along the Hudson
50 Fifties
Host: Meg Oolders
Stock Fiction
See Dot Smile

Music: Birds of the Meadow by Josh Ritter



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Welcome to the pilot episode of my newest creative endeavor.
Talk Fiction is a podcast dedicated to entertainment media's most overlooked underdogs: fiction writers.
In this episode, author J.E. Petersen and I dig deep on preserving our humanity, ditching digital dope, setting boundaries, and silencing our inner critic.
Guest: J.E. Petersen
DISPATCHES FROM INNER SPACE
SHADOW AND FIRE
VOLTAGE
Host: Meg Oolders
STOCK FICTION
SEE DOT SMILE

Music: Birds of the Meadow by Josh Ritter
Thank you for listening!



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