Augie Peterson

Published author, podcaster, filmmaker. linktr.ee/augiep

[augiepwrites]

Hmmm...why would I be spending my evening reading a short story collection I wrote (almost) 10 years ago? It's probably nothing, don't worry about it. 👀

[augiepwrites]

Working on a new short story!

[augiepwrites]

I'm finally coming out of the crochet haze from prepping for craft fairs I've been in since about October. Now I have some time to write and I'm really going to dig my heels in. I have some lofty goals for the summer, but I think I can swing it!

[red-garden]

The thing is, in order to have a healthy and robust fandom, a piece of media NEEDS to leave some questions unanswered. Some relations unshipped. Some plot holes unfilled. Some backstories unwritten. Some lore unexplained. You need possibilities that will keep people up at night. The beautiful thing about an empty lot in a neighborhood is what people make in it

[sourdough-seal]

writing is easy actually. all you have to do is tell people what happened

[enjoylentgreen]

[holographicva]

For what it's worth you should make audiodrama because you love audiodrama.

[holographicva]

You spend enough time in this medium you're bound to encounter a guy with a bizarre sense of impatience for the creative process and frankly, contempt for audiodrama itself. He's making a podcast because he really wants to make a movie, not to secure & prove the IP, but because he doesn't know how to make a movie or sell a script. Or it was supposed to be a book (but he could never get past chapter 5), a comic strip (but he can't draw and won't learn), a ttrpg campaign (but he doesn't want to DM), or a stage play (that he doesn't know how to produce or sell). But audiodrama? Well that's easier than all those other things! He can do that himself! People listen to those things! He'll make that and then he can make the real art later on its foundation!

And listen. Audiodrama is a relatively accessible medium to get into. A whole bunch of us can point to a time listening to Night Vale or Wolf 359 or The Bright Sessions when we said "Hang on, I can do this too" and then got inspired to make our own podcast. But this guy isn't inspired. He's vaguely aware the medium exists and wants to use it as a stepping stone to a medium he considers legitimate and man. When you make an audiodrama that is supposed to be a movie. You wind up with a weirdly stripped down movie that doesn't cater to any of audio's strengths.

Make audiodrama because you love audiodrama. Not because you think it's easier than the thing you actually want to make. I promise your art will be better for it.

[augiepwrites]

Currently reading: Will these characters ever fuck or am I trapped in a slow burn forever

[grumfy]

yeah actually we removed the big bad wolf from the little red riding hood story because portraying violence against minors is really messed up. yeah. yeah also the wolf narrative was really predatory and had had some icky grooming vibes and a fable meant for literal children shouldn’t have implied p*do shit and grape so now little red riding hood goes into the woods and nothing happens and she goes to grandma’s house. don’t worry our kids will still stick to the path and know not to follow to wolves implicitly because we told them to and children should always do as their told. just like little red riding hood does now.

[cordezshenanigans]

I literally played The Wolf in the musical Into The Woods in college and one woman started saying weird shit about me because she thought I was playing the role "a little too well"

Luckily, the director was sane, and when he heard about that he pulled her aside and was like "girl he's supposed to play the role well. That's the fucking point"

And meanwhile, the girl who was playing Little Red was actually glad, even relieved, when she saw I was cast as The Wolf, because we knew each other and she felt safe with me and trusted that I wouldn't use the scene as an excuse to actually creep on her

All that to say, there really are people out there who will read Little Red Riding Hood, or even sign up to participate in an adaptation of the story, and go "ummm The Wolf is kind of problematic"

[queen-mihai]

"He's fucking supposed to be. You're rooting for the girl!"

[i-will-write]

how i sleep knowing i write shitty fiction but at least don’t use chatgpt

[ladyshinga]

[animentality]

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

last line hit like a mack truck

ink: diamine oxblood

[solarsthoughts]

gentle reminder that you’re still a writer even if you haven’t written in days. or weeks. or months. or if you take a long break and don’t write in years.

[wraetingsonthewall]

desperately gonna need someone to invent a way to beam words out of my brain directly into my document because the amount of times the written scene just simply does not hit the same way it did in my head is diabolical

[catchingbigfish]

also i know it's a meme that we all hate writing but that's not true. i fucking love writing. i am so serious, it's okay to love writing. you don't have to hate it to be a real writer. this shit rocks.

[prophetic-writer]

Having confidence in your writing abilities is just as much a skill you need to cultivate as actually writing is.

It's normal to doubt yourself, it's just important to learn how to look past your doubts and recognize that letting yourself worry about the possibility that your writing sucks will never make you a better writer. The only thing that will make you a better writer is writing, so stop worrying about whether you're any good and WRITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[luna-azzurra]

If you’re stuck on a scene, stop forcing the “logical next step” and jump straight to the part you’re excited about. Yes, skip the boring stuff. Happiness counts as productivity. Write the joy first.

[frederickchiltonsdivacup]

Insane writing techniques that help me every time

writing

writing my words

thinking of words and writing them on paper

putting words on paper

putting them out there, words and all

typing on the keys and everything

filling up the document & shit

writing

Hope this helps !!!