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For folks who are interested in more of my writing, I just shared a weird little prose short story over on my Patreon!
I have a lot of orphaned prose fiction projects. Lots of half-started short stories and half-scribbled essays. Generally speaking, by the time I start writing a script these days, I get to the finish line of at least draft one. When it's prose, the process tends to be much more scattershot and much more of an exploration. Oftentimes, the ships that set out to chart those waters sink before they get to port.
So when I actually finish a prose writing project, I tend to pay attention, even if it's just a short little exercise. And that's just what happened with this curious little piece of writing, called Advice for the Worst Man in the World. The conceit was to write something in the style of an advice column, but... well, I think it ended up going to a bit of a stranger, more impressionistic place than that. Still, I think it's funny and amusing in a bit of a dark way, so I thought I'd share it here!
There's actually a decent amount of my unproduced/relatively unknown writing over on my Patreon these days. I think the tally is:
Peace: a chaotic, radio play about a wedding toast gone wrong.
Feelings About World History: a short farcical piece radio play about an unusual intervention for an unusual addiction.
Press One to Talk to God: a short radio play about the role that artificial intelligence is being made to have in the world of religion.
Seven Minutes to Midnight: a one-act radio play about taking an atomic approach to your romantic problems.
The Art of the Deal of War: a satirical radio play about big egos and how they can make big conflicts get really bad.
The End: the full pitch and proposal for a science fiction action audio fiction series I never fully managed to get made.
All of that, plus a few more fun little things coming over the course of the summer!
Every bit of support really helps to keep me working on audio fiction and telling stories during the times between big projects like Hit Singles (and funding independent shows like Danse Macabre), so thank you to everyone that helps out over there! If you're curious to see what's going on over there, I've made some of the above publicly available and there's a free trial option, so check it out!