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A Writing Variety Show featuring a little of Everything from Everyone, Everywhere. Host A. F. Grappin brings you smallcast microstories, interviews, and flash fiction with back-to-back stories based off the same writing prompt.

The Melting Potcast A. F. Grappin

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A Writing Variety Show featuring a little of Everything from Everyone, Everywhere. Host A. F. Grappin brings you smallcast microstories, interviews, and flash fiction with back-to-back stories based off the same writing prompt.

    Episode 97- Chef's Table - CSI: Fantasy

    Episode 97- Chef's Table - CSI: Fantasy

    Another fantastic panel from Balticon 2019, discussing CSI techniques in fantasy (and other fictional) settings.
     
    Announcement: We're scaling back to 1 episode a month for a bit while we're working on house prep and moving and such. Once we triumphantly return to our regular scheduling, we hope to have big improvements to the Potcast. Thanks for bearing with us during this transition!

    • 58 min
    Episode 96- Chef's Table- Muse ON!

    Episode 96- Chef's Table- Muse ON!

    A. F. and Erin got invited onto an Inside the Actors' Studio-like interview show run by creative enabler Sue Baiman. At Balticon 2019, our Head Chef and Grillmistress held nothing back and spilled all.
    Don’t forget to check out our Patreon, our Swag Shop (featuring all that new artwork), and to heart us on Spotify! And please talk about us on social media!You can submit prompt ideas, Stoke the Fire and Main Ingredient submissions, Pot Roast ideas, and Short Order Cook ideas at themeltingpotcast@gmail.com or check themeltingpotcast.com/submissions for info.

    • 1 hr 22 min
    Episode 95- Main Ingredient "Jen of Sedgeholme" and Processed Food

    Episode 95- Main Ingredient "Jen of Sedgeholme" and Processed Food

    Happy New Year!
     
    We're back from our little hiatus (holidays kinda kicked our butts) with a Main Ingredient story from Potcast regular James Silverstein!
    Jen of Sedgeholme- One young girl gets chosen by her god to stop a war.
    We chase that with a Processed Food segment that tears apart probability: the whale/petunias scene from Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
    Prompt #21 is now closed. 
    Now introducing Prompt #23- The dead offer you advice, though not always useful.
    Don’t forget to check out our Patreon, our Swag Shop (featuring all that new artwork), and to heart us on Spotify! And please talk about us on social media!You can submit prompt ideas, Stoke the Fire and Main Ingredient submissions, Pot Roast ideas, and Short Order Cook ideas at themeltingpotcast@gmail.com or check themeltingpotcast.com/submissions for info.Promo- Nostalgia PilotsBumper- Django Wexler

    • 36 min
    Episode 94- Stoke the Fire Prompt #21 and Processed Food

    Episode 94- Stoke the Fire Prompt #21 and Processed Food

    How is it December already?
    Well, I hope it means you're hungry, because we have a light, delicious meal for you. We'll start with a pair of Stoke the Fire stories based on Prompt #21: You found a star that actually grants wishes!
    "Sealed with a Kiss" by Christopher Michael
    "WishStar" by Quinn Grey
    And after that, we present you with a deconstructed and reconstructed monologue in our Processed Food segment. Dish Boy Theo reads the V speech from V for Vendetta, doing absolutely no justice to Hugo Weaving at all.
    Don’t forget to check out our Patreon, our Swag Shop (featuring all that new artwork), and to heart us on Spotify! And please talk about us on social media!You can submit prompt ideas, Stoke the Fire and Main Ingredient submissions, Pot Roast ideas, and Short Order Cook ideas at themeltingpotcast@gmail.com or check themeltingpotcast.com/submissions for info.Promo- Criminal from Birth by A. F. GrappinBumper- Nobilis Reed

    • 39 min
    Episode 93- Chef's Table- Twitch for Dummies

    Episode 93- Chef's Table- Twitch for Dummies

    Our November midmonth episode brings you a TMP friend and contributor's latest big triumph: a panel on Twitch for Dummies by Tee Morris, with Tee Morris, of Tee Morris.
     
    Don’t forget to check out our Patreon, our Swag Shop (featuring all that new artwork), and to heart us on Spotify! And please talk about us on social media!You can submit prompt ideas, Stoke the Fire and Main Ingredient submissions, Pot Roast ideas, and Short Order Cook ideas at themeltingpotcast@gmail.com or check themeltingpotcast.com/submissions for info.

    • 1 hr 1 min
    Episode 92- Stoke the Fire Prompt #20 and Mystery Meal

    Episode 92- Stoke the Fire Prompt #20 and Mystery Meal

    It's November (holy cow) and it's time to serve up some stories!
    We have a pair of Stoke the Fire stories based on prompt #20- The forecast called for heavy snowstorms. But what's falling from the sky is NOT snow.
    "On the Winds of Winter" by Christopher Glick
    "Red Sky" by Christopher Michael
    We follow it with a Mystery Meal destroying the opening of Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
    And our new announcement: The Melting Potcast is on Spotify!
    Don’t forget to check out our Patreon, our Swag Shop (featuring all that new artwork), and to heart us on Spotify! And please talk about us on social media!You can submit prompt ideas, Stoke the Fire and Main Ingredient submissions, Pot Roast ideas, and Short Order Cook ideas at themeltingpotcast@gmail.com or check themeltingpotcast.com/submissions for info.Promo- Command Decision by Terry MixonBumper- Keith R. A. DeCandido

    • 42 min

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Love this podcast!!

As a relatively new writer working on my first novel, I love listening to The Melting Potcast. It has really helped me expand my writing skills. I love participating in the writing challenges. Keep up the good work guys!!

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Puns & Prose from the Pros!

The Melting Potcast is the punfect mix of useful writing tips and tricks, along with a healthy portion of fictional prose from all levels of writers. A.F., Erin, and the gang are very punfessional. If you want to become the best writer you can be, pun The Melting Potcast in your podcast rotation!

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Lots of fun and you might learn a thing or two ;)

I have a lot of fun listening to this podcast. I love the stories and who doesn't enjoy a giggle and a Mystery Meal? This show inspired me to write for the first time ever.

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