Please note: the full Writer's Locke Season Two, Episode Ten will not be released in audio format. Instead, the link to the full episode transcription can be found [here].
Featuring: Further discussion of the guests' nuzlocke runs, both current, former, and regretted high school efforts; advice for writing transgender characters; when not to add race politics to your story; racial diversity is not like a box of chocolates, but we love when our pudding speaks Spanish; whether White Fragility makes a good first date gift; going away on a steam ship; and more!
Also, be aware that this episode includes discussion of residential schools and the murder of Native American/First Nations children, from roughly 24:00 to 25:30. If this subject is distressing to you, please skip this part.
A full transcript of this bonus discussion has been prepared for your convenience and can be found [here].
Books recommended in this episode:
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo
An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia
Johnny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
Medicine Walk by Richard Wagamese
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Boat People by Sharon Bala
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline [and all her other books]
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project!
In this episode we take one last look at Behold, a Pale Horse! and dandelion--and we’ll also get to hear some thoughts from the writers of both stories. In addition, the penultimate chapter of Carousel sees Eusine prepare for the final steps of his sacred journey. Not only that, but we’ll be taking some time to look at how to find your character’s voice in a story.
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our host, @Rainey!
@Raderph, continuing Carousel!
@Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of character voice and development with @Uberle and @Garish Garchomp!
@Plain Yogurt, concluding our look at Behold, a Pale Horse!
@SilverDoe, reading for us from dandelion!
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project!
Exaltation awaits Eusine as we build to the final chapters of Carousel. Our other two storylockes continue their runs, with two very different protagonists struggling with two very different conflicts, and relationship struggles that are not entirely dissimilar. Our discussion segment also touches on these -- with a rowdy panel on inter-character relationships and interactions! There was enough material that we’re releasing a deluxe version of the discussion segment specifically, including extra detail on examples, deeper dives into how a selection of storylockes handle their relationships, and a couple of real-life anecdotes about accidental dates!
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our host, Rainey!
Raderph, continuing Carousel!
Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of inter-character relationships and interactions with Flop, Aurea, and Rhema!
Plain Yogurt, continuing our look at Behold, A Pale Horse!
SilverDoe, reading for us from dandelion!
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
This week's discussion segment, on inter-character relationships and interactions in nuzlockes, had so much material that we're releasing a deluxe version with fifteen more minutes of content! This extra-long version includes: extra detail on examples, deeper dives into how a selection of storylockes handle their relationships, Mother Time, and a couple of real-life anecdotes about accidental dates!
A full transcript of this deluxe discussion has been prepared for your convenience.
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project!
This episode sees us continue our season-long exploration of Carousel, followed by our final two new storylockes for the season. First, we’ll delve into the mind of a man forced to kill in Behold! A Pale Horse. Then, we’ll take a trip to Galar with our other debuting story, Dandelion In addition, today’s discussion segment is all about the cast of your storylocke -- specifically, what to do when it starts getting a little bigger than you might have anticipated..
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our substitute host, @cjapples!
@Raderph, continuing Carousel!
@Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of large casts and character overlap with @Whozawhatcha and @Vent!
@Plain Yogurt, beginning our look at Behold! A Pale Horse!
@SilverDoe, reading for us from dandelion!
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project!
In this episode, we continue with our read of Carousel, and conclude our time with In The Sun's Embrace! We also round off our little selection of storylocke tasters with an exciting set piece from Strength and Other Disillusions. Our discussion segment today covers the tricky business of translating NPC characters into storylockes!
Next episode will premiere our last two new storylockes for the season! Wild that we're at the business end of things.
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our substitute host, Flop disc! Rainey was busy with commitments relating to a recent workshop weekend hosted by The Nuzwriter's Lounge!
Raderph, continuing Carousel!
Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of character foils with Wwarborday and Whozawhatcha!
Special guest Garish Garchomp, concluding our read of In the Sun’s Embrace!
Our very own SayleeK, reading an exciting segment from Strength and Other Disillusions' prologue!
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
In this episode, Carousel and In the Sun's Embrace return! We received a request from the author to cancel our read of Run Away, Survivors due to ther departure from the forums. We continue to wish Javier the best! (I'm declining to ping on this occasion as I've sent out two or three similar pings of this nature; showing the value of contributions he quietly made to the Nuzforums.) For the remaining two episodes where RAS would have been read, we've decided to do single chapter reads of newer* storylockes! For our discussion segment, Rainey and the gang will be discussing a personal favourite topic of mine, Character Foils!
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our host, Rainey!
Raderph, continuing Carousel!
Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of character foils with Garish Garchomp and Bramble!
glancesherlock, continuing with In the Sun’s Embrace!
Our very own SayleeK, reading a chapter of Ignoble Idolatry for us!
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
In this episode, we’re excited to introduce two new storylockes onto the podcast: In the Sun’s Embrace by Thirteenth, read to us by glancesherlock; and Run Away, Survivors, by JavierE64, read to us by our very own host, Rainey! In addition, we’re returning to Eusine’s journey in Carousel, and we’ve brought on two brand-new special guests to talk about writing antagonists!
ve expanded syndication, so you can now listen to us in a bunch of different places. Let us know if your favourite podcast service is missing, and we’ll work to get it added!
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This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our host, Rainey!
Raderph, continuing Carousel!
Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of antagonists with ”AbsoluteylCertain” and JavierE65!
glancesherlock, introducing In the Sun’s Embrace!
A special message from the Lental region, featuring cjapples!
Rainey reading Run Away, Survivors!
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project!
We’ve expanded syndication, so you can now listen to us in a bunch of different places. Let us know if your favourite podcast service is missing, and we’ll work to get it added!
Listen on Anchor
Listen on Breaker
Listen on Google Podcasts
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Listen on Pocket Casts
Listen on RadioPublic
Listen on Spotify
It's an honest pleasure to bring you all these episodes. Today, we've got something really special. One of our own has jus released her debut novel! All Ways came out online online during the week of April 26th. It's available to buy on Amazon, and you can find more details about the journey to publication on Indiegogo!
This episode will also be the final one featuring Healing Wish and Tightrope, both of which will be findly missed! Next episode, we'll reveal the next pair of storylockes to be read.
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our returning host, @Rainey!
@Raderph, continuing Carousel!
@Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of Disability and Neorodivergence in the world of character writing with @Uberle and @Bowser's Family Vacation!
@SayleeK, reading Healing Wish
@Bowser's Family Vacation, telling us a little about her upcoming book, All Ways
@SilverDoe, reading Tightrope
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project!
We’ve expanded syndication, so you can now listen to us in a bunch of different places. Let us know if your favourite podcast service is missing, and we’ll work to get it added!
Listen on Anchor
Listen on Breaker
Listen on Google Podcasts
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Listen on Pocket Casts
Listen on RadioPublic
Listen on Spotify
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana, and The Writer’s Locke likes every third Monday at 6PM EST! That being said, with daylight savings zones around the world working against us, this episode may slide in an hour late. Or early! Who knows?
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our returning host, Rainey!
Raderph, continuing Carousel!
Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of Portraying pokemon - Fantasy vs Realism with Aurea, Clockenstein, and returning guest superstar Erberor!
SayleeK, reading Healing Wish
SilverDoe, reading Tightrope
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
If you’ve got some thoughts to throw down about the discussion segment, have at it! As usual, we’ve prepared a couple of relevant questions to refer to if you’re not sure where to start:
If you have an itch you wanna scratch beyond that, there's always the Shop Talk subforum!
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project!
We’ve expanded syndication, so you can now listen to us in a bunch of different places. Let us know if your favourite podcast service is missing, and we’ll work to get it added!
Feels like it’s been a hot second, right? We wrapped last October with a Halloween Anthology that was a tonne of fun. (It actually went live on the Nuzwriter’s Lounge, the unofficial writing server, and we had a listen party. HEAPS of fun to watch everyone yell at things grew spookier and more dire!) The team’ve been working since the new year to build on our debut season. I’m proud as punch of the hard yakka put in and I know the team are stoked to bits, too!
But that’s probably enough straya for the second.
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
Our returning host, Rainey!
Raderph, reading Carousel’s opening chapter and sticking with us throughout the season!
Rainey, hosting a discussion on the topic of The Dreaded Reboot - Should you do it? with SayleeK and Flop disc
SayleeK, reading the opening chapter of Healing Wish
Flop disc, (temporarily) reading Tightrope
As with last season, we've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
Last season, we used this spot to ask a couple of extra questions arising from discussion. I'd like to bring that back a little! So:
Have you toyed with rebooting an in-progress story? What did you decide to ultimately do, and why?
But there have been changes on the forums between now and this year! So if you have an itch you wanna scratch beyond that, there's now the Shop Talk subforum!
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! This spooky-themed special episode wraps up the podcast’s inaugural season. And, as a sweetener, we’ve included a roundtable with glancesherlock, all about Gracidea!
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
Rainey, our gracious host!
Raderph, reading Night of Stalling Wobbuffets by JavierE64
glancesherlock, discussing the writing of Gracidea with Rainey, Silverdoe, and csidvuL
cjapples, reading The Frozen Temple by Silverdoe
SayleeK / Chuthulhu reading Leer, by Paine
A continuation of the Gracidea interview, where glancesherlock and the team reflect on the season and make mention of things to come!
Rainey, with some special thanks and our very last signoff for the season!
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Here is a bonus episode containing all chapters of Stolen Dreams read out on episodes 5-7 of the podcast!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! This is our final episode for the regular season. As such, this rotation of storylockes is wrapping up. We’ll hear from our authors about these! In October, our final episode will air, covering off Gracidea. Lastly, among all these big changes, Rainey and the team dig into worldbuilding!
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
We release episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EDT. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! As always, we’ve got plenty for you to sink your teeth into. Or fangs, as the case may be, since our discussion topic for the day centres around gijinkas! Today we have Gracidea nearing its climax, the return of All That We Are, and another outstanding selection from Ashes to Ashes.
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
We release episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EDT. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! We’ve got a bumper episode this time around. We’re bidding a fond farewell to Running Hot, which makes way for Ashes to Ashes. On top of all that is an absolute banger of a discussion segment, covering a perennial favourite topic: protagonists!
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
csidvuL filling in for Rainey!
SilverDoe, reading us Gracidea by glancesherlock
Fullmental, reading us Running Hot by Zephyr_Iphis
A short promotional segment. Tune in to find out which storylocke we mention!
A lively discussion segment on the topic of Protagonists, conducted by Rainey and with Garish Garchomp and Raderph appearing as guests!
Bowser’s Family Vacation, introducing the non-linear Ashes to Ashes and its first selected entry, A Father’s Anguish
Kirilpunk, reading us Ashes to Ashes by Bowser’s Family Vacation
csidvuL, with some special thanks and our signoff
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
We release episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EDT. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
August 31
September 21
October 12 (season finale!)
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! In this episode, we’re concluding our reading of Stolen Dreams with a bonus statement from the author himself! We’re also putting Running Hot on hold for this week and premiering one of the new runs to be featured in the next batch of episodes! In addition, we have a special, extra-long discussion segment to share with you, featuring not two but three returning guests!
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
csidvuL filling in for Rainey!
SilverDoe, reading us Gracidea by glancesherlock
Plain Yogurt, reading us All That We Are by Erberor
A short promotional segment. Tune in to find out which storylocke we mention!
A lively discussion segment on the topic of Tropes in Nuzlockes, conducted by Rainey and with Metafiction, csidvuL, and Erberor as guests
SayleeK, reading us Stolen Dreams by Rumors
A farewell message from Rumors!
csidvuL, with some special thanks and our signoff
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
We release episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EDT. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
August 10
August 31
September 21
October 12 (season finale!)
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! We’re continuing with our second rotation of reads, and all delighted to be here!
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
Rainey, our gracious host!
SilverDoe, reading us Gracidea by glancesherlock
Fullmental, reading us Running Hot by Zephyr_Iphis
A short promotional segment. Tune in to find out which storylocke we mention!
A lively discussion segment on the topic of Starting A Story (concluding with part two!), conducted by @Rainey and with @Metafiction and OrdoSkirata as guests
SayleeK, reading us Stolen Dreams by Rumors
Rainey, with some special thanks and our signoff
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
We release episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EDT. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
July 20
August 10
August 31
September 21
October 12 (season finale!)
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
(And along those lines! There were some technical issues with the discussion segment of this episode, and our usual miracle worker was unavailable. Yours truly has done her best in the interim! If you're familiar with DAWs and specifically Fairlight, I'd be delighted if you reached out and we had a brain-picking session sometime.)
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! This episode is a bit of a changing of the guard. Not only are we starting on two new storylockes, but we’ve decided to bring on two new guests for the discussion segment!
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
We release episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EDT. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! Our readers are stoked to bits to once again read out chapters from a selection of forum storylockes. Today, we’re going to be saying farewell for now to Call of the Divines and Solstice! You’ll hear a little from each of the run’s creators after their chapters are read out.
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
@OrdoSkirata, reading us Call of the Divines by @llyarden
@Plain Yogurt, reading us Solstice by @YellowMouse
A farewell message from @YellowMouse, read by @Rainey!
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
We release episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EDT. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
Here is a bonus episode containing all chapters of Solstice read out on episodes 1-4 of The Writer's Locke!
Here is a bonus episode containing all chapters of Call of the Divines read out on episodes 1-4 of The Writer's Locke!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! Our readers are stoked to bits to once again read out chapters from a selection of forum storylockes. This episode, we’ll be seeing our first promotional segment!
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
Filling in for Rainey, csidvuL with host duties! [00:00:00]
SilverDoe, reading us Gracidea by glancesherlock [00:01:06]
OrdoSkirata, reading us Call of the Divines by llyarden [00:07:06]
A short promotional segment. Tune in to find out which storylocke we mention! [00:19:57]
A lively discussion segment on the topic of Recording your run!, conducted by Rainey and with Erberor and csidvuL as guests [00:20:43]
Plain Yogurt, reading us Solstice by MouseWithADinosaurTail [00:46:01]
csidvuL, with some special thanks and our signoff [01:13:45]
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
We release episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EDT. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
May 18
June 8
June 29
July 20
August 10
August 31
September 21
October 12
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you!
Welcome back to The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! This episode builds on our pilot release and introduces most of our full series format. Our set of readers are back and stoked to bits to once again read out chapters from a selection of forum storylockes!
Starting from Episode Three, we will also begin reading promotional excerpts and synopses of selected storylockes! They are all drawn from the storylockes we received during our initial round of storylocke submissions.
This episode, we'll be hearing from:
We've prepared a full transcript for your convenience.
The Writer's Locke uploads episodes every three weeks, on Mondays at 6PM EST. That means upcoming release dates are as follows:
Your interest and support has gotten us all this far, and we're incredibly grateful for it. If you have any feedback about the transcript or any other aspect of the podcast, we'd love to hear from you! Feel free to drop a post here, in the main Writer's Locke thread, or to send a message direct via forum PM or Discord DM to a member of our crew!
This is the pilot episode of The Writer’s Locke, a Nuzlocke Reading Project! You have all waited patiently and we have all worked hard to get to this moment. Now, you can listen to members of the community read opening chapters from a selection of storylockes!
This episode, we’ll be hearing from:
A full transcript is available. We hope you all enjoy this episode!