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03 | The Multitude's Lament
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03 | The Multitude's Lament

A conversation about the rewards and challenges of creative lawlessness.

Welcome back to Talk Fiction, a podcast dedicated to entertainment media’s most overlooked underdogs: Fiction writers.

In this episode, yours truly, Meg Oolders, talks with fellow multitude, Ben Wakeman, about avoiding the rut of niche-ness, embracing AI (for what it is), fostering empathy (for the betterment of humanity), and returning to the workforce after a full (but fleeting) creative immersion.

If you haven’t discovered Ben’s work, I can’t recommend it enough.

Explore his serialized novels: The Memory of My Shadow and Harmony House. The first two chapters of each are free to read!


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And take a stroll through the Same Walk, Different Shoes library, where the work of many of the authors mentioned in this episode is featured.

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Same Walk, Different Shoes: Volume I
Today, I’m interrupting your normal Catch & Release programming to bring you something very special. “Same Walk, Different Shoes” is a community writing project I dreamed up to bring together a collective of wonderful writers who all happen to be on the Substack platform. The project is aimed at cultivating empathy, a quality I believe is essential for …
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Music: Birds of the Meadow by Josh Ritter

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Stock Fiction
Talk Fiction
Stock Fiction creator Meg Oolders chats with some of her favorite writers for your entertainment. This is what happens when creatives get together to talk about their greatest passion. And whatever the hell else they need to talk about.
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