Hourlings Podcast: July 2021 Episodes

Here are the July episodes of the Hourlings Podcast, featuring our awesome crew of working indie writers. From the challenges of naming charcters, to the fantasy stories that have inspired them, effective foreshadowing, Happy Hour, and even a mid-year assessment of their 2021 writing goals…the July episodes cover real topics for real writers..

Episode	Air Date	Len (m)	Title
41.	07/31/21	76	Happy Hour Take authors, add beer…and anything can happen. Welcome to Happy Hour, wherein our intrepid writers tackle any subject that comes to mind, while David Keener (the boring, sober one) desperately tries to keep them on track.   With: Martin Wilsey (M), Jeffrey C. Jacobs, David Keener, S.C. Megale Recorded: 4/20/21
40.	07/24/21	18	Foreshadowing Things happen in any story…but foreshadowing can dramatically increase the emotional impact of events. But, how do you do foreshadowing? How much is too much? How do you avoid being too obvious? In this episode, our illustrious authors pry the veil aside and reveal some of their most sophisticated techniques. And…maybe a few that…um…don’t really work all that well.   With: Martin Wilsey (M), Jeffrey C. Jacobs, David Keener, S.C. Megale Recorded: 4/13/21
39.	07/17/21	28	Favorite Fantasy Stories In which our illustrious panel of writers each present three fantasy stories that they find inspring. Beware, if you watch this episode, you’ll end up buying books!   With: Martin Wilsey (M), Jeffrey C. Jacobs, David Keener, S.C. Megale Recorded: 4/13/21
XX.	–/–/–	–	Book Awards Aye, folks. A great and terrible mystery surrounds this episode. Recorded, yet never found. There are rumors that the intrepid authors who participated may have touched upon Secrets Too Terrible To Be Known. Even they can’t remember, for sure. All they know is…this episode has mysteriously disappeared.   With: Martin Wilsey (M), Jeffrey C. Jacobs (M), David Keener, S.C. Megale (L) Recorded: 4/6/21
38.	07/10/21	37	2021 Goals – Mid-Year Status Welcome to the mid-year status check on our illustrious crew of authors. Are they on track to meet their annual goals? What do you think?   With: Martin Wilsey (M), Jeffrey C. Jacobs, David Keener, S.C. Megale, Stephanie Mirro Recorded: 6/29/21
37.	07/03/21	34	Naming Characters What’s in a name? A rose, by any other name… OK, names are IMPORTANT. In this episode, our hapless writers tell you the lengths they go to to come up with the perfect names for their characters. Whew, it’s a constant struggle with mediocity…for every “James Bond” there’s a sadly unmemorable “Bob Jones.”   With: Jeffrey C. Jacobs (M), David Keener, S.C. Megale (L) Recorded: 3/23/21

Key: (M) = Moderator, (L) = Leader for the Topic

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