The Fanfic Writers' Craft

The Fanfic Writers' Craft is a fanfiction podcast focused on the writing craft of fanfiction, hosted by Lani (aka. pebblysand) and Jo (aka. copper_dust). Each episode focuses on a different aspect of writing or topic related to fanfiction writing specifically — from plotting to writing habits to reader inserts. Some episodes have guests, while others see the topics discussed between Lani and Jo.
On 12 October 2023, the official description read:The Fanfic Writers’ Craft is a podcast that discusses all things fanfiction with a focus on the art and science of writing for the enjoyment of fan communities. Every two weeks, Jo and Lani (otherwise known in fandom as @pebblysand and @copper_dust) sit down for a fun, multi-fandom, fanfic-related chat and delve into particular topics such as: the particularities of writing and reading fanfiction, monetisation, how to build a fanfiction plot, etc. Hope you enjoy!
===Episode List===
====Season One Episodes====
Episodes of The Fanfic Writers' Craft
Episode Number	Release Date 	Title 	Fannish Topics 	Direct Link
1 	May 25, 2022 	What Is Fanfiction? (or, Children with Unsupervised Internet Access in the Early 2000s) 	Fanfiction, Original Fiction, Going Pro 	X
2 	June 10, 2022 	How to Plot? (or, Vibes - It's 90% Vibes) 	Plot holes, Commenting 	X
3 	June 24, 2022 	Original Characters (Or, Starting Fandom Fires!) 	Original Characters, Mary Sues, Self Inserts 	X
4 	July 8, 2022 	"Shipping" (Or, Imagining Vietnam Vets Reading Our Fanfiction) 	Shipping, Slash, Gen 	X
5 	July 22, 2022 	Past Tense v. Present Tense (Or, Trendy Kids Breaking the Rules?) 	Present Tense, YA Fiction 	X
6 	August 5, 2022 	Writing in English as a Second Language with @venom0usbarbie (Or, Feeling the "Académie Française" Looking over my Shoulder)	 	X
7 	August 19, 2022 	Dialogue (Or, Lemons and Lemonade) 	Dialogue, Monologue 	X
8 	September 16, 2022	An Evening Chat with @tessiete (Or, Do Lupin and Obi-Wan Vibe the Same?) 	The Good Wife, Harry Potter, Star Wars, Copyright	X
9 	September 30, 2022	Point of View (Or, Who In The World Ever Is Reliable?) 	POV 	X
10 	October 14, 2022 	Multimedia in Fanfiction [Part 1] with @crazybutgood & @newsom (Or, Fooling the Security Cameras by Reading Fanfic At Work) 	Multimedia 	X
11 	October 28, 2022 	Writing Habits and Routines (Or, People For Whom Forward Motion Is A Challenge) 	 	X
12 	November 11, 2022 	Writing War (Or, All Of Us Are Going To Geneva) 	 	X
13 	November 25, 2022 	An Evening Chat with @ala_baguette (Or, People Are Interesting!) 	Harry Potter, Original Characters, Gen 	X
14 	December 9, 2022 	Humour (Or, Are Goncharov Fanfics Crackfics?) 	Crack fic, Tumblr, Goncharov 	X
15 	December 21, 2022 	2022 Wrap-Up (Or, We Have At Least Three Listeners) 	 	X
==== Season Two Episodes ====
Episodes of The Fanfic Writers' Craft
Episode Number	Release Date 	Title 	Fannish Topics 	Direct Link
1 	January 20, 2023 	Smut with @celestemagnolia (Or, Just Call It A Dick!) 	Smut 	X
2 	February 3, 2023 	Outgrowing Fandoms (Or, The Harry Episode) 	 	X
3 	February 17, 2023 	Multimedia in Fanfiction [Part 2] with @rosalui (Or, Snackleholt Bingsley LARPs Warrior Cats on the Amazon Kindle)	Naruto, Mo Dao Zu Shi, Harry Potter, Avengers, Captain America 	X
4 	March 3, 2023 	Writing Dystopian Hellscapes with @Nargles15 (Or, Here's Harry and His Poorly Named Children) 	Harry Potter 	X
5 	March 17, 2023 	Writing Dark Stuff (Or, There's No Substitute For Going to School) 	Darkfic, Content warning, Trigger, 	X
6 	March 31, 2023 	Politics and Social Issues (Or, Who Has the Energy to be a Teacher and a Spy at the Same Time?) 	 	X
7 	April 14, 2023 	Fanfiction and the Classics with @johaerys-writes (Or, Wangxian Tags Achilles' Heel, No More Sexytimes For Ao3) 	The Song of Achilles, Mythology, The Iliad, Dragon Age 	X
8 	April 28, 2023 	Research (Or, Shifting into Draco Malfoy's Girlfriend) 	 	X
9 	May 12, 2023 	Romance (Or, They're Cousins. They're Lovers. It's Fine, It's Ancient Greece.) 	Romance, Platonic, The Good Wife, Harry Potter, Ancient Greece, Alexander the Great	X
10 	May 26, 2023 	Reader-Inserts with @word-wytch (Or, POV: You're Dating Eddie Munson) 	Reader-Insert, Stranger Things 	X
11 	June 10, 2023 	Music and Fanfiction (Or, Anyway, Here's Wonderwall) 	Music 	X
12 	June 23, 2023 	Writing Style (Or, Homer is an FF.net Writer) 	The Good Wife, Harry Potter 	X
13 	September 20, 2023	Long Fics (Or, Is This Abandoned?) 	Longfic 	X
14 	October 20, 2023 	Titles (Or, Why'd You Have To Go and Make Things So Complicated?) 	 	X
15 	November 20, 2023 	Worldbuilding (Or, 'I Like It When People Get Stuff Right About Women') 	Worldbuilding 	X
16 	December 1, 2023 	[BONUS] Platforms & Wattpad with @MyLittleDuckies (Or, Please, Save Your Works!) 	Wattpad, Fanwork Purges 	X
17 	December 20, 2023 	2023 Wrap-Up (Or, We Don't Need to Talk about MH370 Right Now) 	 	X
==== Season Three Episodes ====
Episodes of The Fanfic Writers' Craft
Episode Number	Release Date 	Title 	Fannish Topics 	Direct Link
1 	January 20, 2024 	Audience (Or, Chances Are: You’re Not Going to Win the Nobel Prize for Fanfiction) 	Harry Potter, Peaky Blinders, All The Young Dudes 	X
2 	February 21, 2024 	Hot Takes & Nitpicks (Or, Pause This Podcast Right Now And Delete The Phrase 'Thin Cotton T-Shirt' From Your Fic With No Further Penalties)	Archive of Our Own, Fandom and Profit, Fandom Statistics	X
3 	March 21, 2024 	Outlining (Or, Is This Just An Ad For Miro?) 	Outlining, Writing, Writer's Block 	X
4 	April 21, 2024 	Use of Time in Narrative (Or, Defending the Artistic Merit of your Vampire Smut) 	Writing Techniques, Flashbacks, Non-linear storytelling 	X
5 	May 21, 2024 	Motifs & Symbolism (Or, We're Okay Being Associated With S&M) 	Symbolism 	X
6 	September 21, 2024	Money, Business & Economics (Or, Here's The Link To Our Ko-Fi) 	Classism, Economics 	X
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