The Free Lancer Podcast: Surviving Publishing Without Burning Out or Selling Out
Andy Hodges
16 episodes
3 days ago
Send us a text In today's ep I'm chatting with Vesna Kurilic of Shtriga Books again! Today we discuss inclusive language and nonbinary gender in Croatian language and fiction. We explore how culturally specific the discussions around conscious and inclusive language are, and what challenges other contexts face with different approaches toward languages. Then we get onto grammar. In Croatian, which has three grammatical genders, you flag the speaker's gender much more often than in English. We...
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Send us a text In today's ep I'm chatting with Vesna Kurilic of Shtriga Books again! Today we discuss inclusive language and nonbinary gender in Croatian language and fiction. We explore how culturally specific the discussions around conscious and inclusive language are, and what challenges other contexts face with different approaches toward languages. Then we get onto grammar. In Croatian, which has three grammatical genders, you flag the speaker's gender much more often than in English. We...
The Free Lancer Podcast: Surviving Publishing Without Burning Out or Selling Out
18 minutes
6 months ago
Story Structure 101
Send us a text Story structure is one issue fiction editors love to disagree about. At one end of the spectrum, some promote rigid templates, while others say "anything goes." In this episode, I cover ... the problem with rigid approaches to story structurewhy I dislike Save the Cat! and the Hero's Journeywhy you should think about story structure but not get hung up about itEnjoy! Links from today's ep! Hustle culture versus the Literary Academy: https://www.thenarrativecraft.com/post/two-cu...
The Free Lancer Podcast: Surviving Publishing Without Burning Out or Selling Out
Send us a text In today's ep I'm chatting with Vesna Kurilic of Shtriga Books again! Today we discuss inclusive language and nonbinary gender in Croatian language and fiction. We explore how culturally specific the discussions around conscious and inclusive language are, and what challenges other contexts face with different approaches toward languages. Then we get onto grammar. In Croatian, which has three grammatical genders, you flag the speaker's gender much more often than in English. We...
