Comments on: Pseudopod 002: Good Advice http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/ The Sound of Horror. Pseudopod is the world\'s first audio horror magazine. We deliver bone-chilling stories from today\'s most talented authors straight to your computer or MP3 player. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:56:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: RebeccaAnn http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-195823 RebeccaAnn Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:27:17 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-195823 <p>I admit I didn't like this story as much as The Bag Man, but I still enjoyed it a lot. I agree with Kyla. I felt the narrator's mindset to be quite frightening and a bit unstable and for me, I'm not too bothered by the writing about writing. I didn't see the end coming, either, which the made all the more fantastic!</p> I admit I didn’t like this story as much as The Bag Man, but I still enjoyed it a lot. I agree with Kyla. I felt the narrator’s mindset to be quite frightening and a bit unstable and for me, I’m not too bothered by the writing about writing. I didn’t see the end coming, either, which the made all the more fantastic!

]]> By: Camphor http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-136926 Camphor Sun, 28 Dec 2008 06:59:04 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-136926 <p>I didn't like it. I'm looking for horror, not a story about a writer.</p> I didn’t like it. I’m looking for horror, not a story about a writer.

]]> By: Mari Mitchell http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-19144 Mari Mitchell Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:07:16 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-19144 <p>My son is off playing and can hear without earphones. Rare treat. I have filled with Pseudopod.</p> <p>I post, to not only let you know what I think, such as it is, but to mark what I have listened to.</p> <p>Man to hear that from a teacher... A dream of dream.</p> <p>I understand writer too.</p> <p>I loved who read this.</p> <p>I was pretty sure the writer was going to off someone. You often hear "write what you know" it took me a while to know what the heck that meant.</p> <p>Now I spend happy hours of reading bits of information. Sometimes I feel like a magpie, although I am sure that most magpies do not gather what I do. And those that do, I am either like or I should worry about. Now, to tell the difference between them before...</p> <p>I like my horror more supernatural feel. So for me this one is not a home run, but it was not a disagreeable time either.</p> My son is off playing and can hear without earphones. Rare treat. I have filled with Pseudopod.

I post, to not only let you know what I think, such as it is, but to mark what I have listened to.

Man to hear that from a teacher… A dream of dream.

I understand writer too.

I loved who read this.

I was pretty sure the writer was going to off someone. You often hear “write what you know” it took me a while to know what the heck that meant.

Now I spend happy hours of reading bits of information. Sometimes I feel like a magpie, although I am sure that most magpies do not gather what I do. And those that do, I am either like or I should worry about. Now, to tell the difference between them before…

I like my horror more supernatural feel. So for me this one is not a home run, but it was not a disagreeable time either.

]]> By: scatterbrain http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-19040 scatterbrain Mon, 24 Mar 2008 00:50:04 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-19040 <p>I agree with Adolfo: "Meh."</p> <p>Not enough horror for a horror story.</p> I agree with Adolfo: “Meh.”

Not enough horror for a horror story.

]]> By: Alasdair http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-100 Alasdair Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:15:59 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-100 <p>Great:) A wonderful combo of spot on social commentary and what happens when we go too far to make our work authentic. Loved it:)</p> Great:) A wonderful combo of spot on social commentary and what happens when we go too far to make our work authentic. Loved it:)

]]> By: Simon http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-84 Simon Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:21:06 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-84 <p>This isn't very good, sorry. It's well crafted, but it falls pretty badly into the writing about writing box.</p> <p>Orson Scott Card (SF's most rightwing master writing teacher) put a pretty long piece on writing horror about writing in his book "The Changed Man And The King Of Words" in which he basically said "This can be really intrusive, and distracts the reader from the story by reminding them of its structure" and I felt this summed this up completely. Steven King of course is ALWAYS writing about writing, but his stories are unusually immersive so he can get away with derailing it a bit (although in Misery it gets fucking irritating).</p> <p>Unfortunately tho, while this is really well crafted, I found it impossible to become involved in the story because it was too intertwined with the structure - You kept asking yourself how the "lessons" we were being told applied to the story itself.</p> <p>Great reading tho.</p> This isn’t very good, sorry. It’s well crafted, but it falls pretty badly into the writing about writing box.

Orson Scott Card (SF’s most rightwing master writing teacher) put a pretty long piece on writing horror about writing in his book “The Changed Man And The King Of Words” in which he basically said “This can be really intrusive, and distracts the reader from the story by reminding them of its structure” and I felt this summed this up completely. Steven King of course is ALWAYS writing about writing, but his stories are unusually immersive so he can get away with derailing it a bit (although in Misery it gets fucking irritating).

Unfortunately tho, while this is really well crafted, I found it impossible to become involved in the story because it was too intertwined with the structure - You kept asking yourself how the “lessons” we were being told applied to the story itself.

Great reading tho.

]]> By: Philip Gaitan http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-82 Philip Gaitan Thu, 07 Sep 2006 20:05:16 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-82 <p>I agree with many here. I thought the story was great, but personally, there was nothing horror about it. Again, great work, I just didn't feel that it fit the genere. My $0.02.</p> <p>Phil</p> I agree with many here. I thought the story was great, but personally, there was nothing horror about it. Again, great work, I just didn’t feel that it fit the genere. My $0.02.

Phil

]]> By: Kyla http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-72 Kyla Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:00:31 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-72 <p>Actually, I felt the horror element all the way through. I mean, part of it was that it was on a horror podcast, so I knew there was something coming, but throughout the entire thing there was just this air of, I don't know, mental instability and fragility, if that makes any sense.</p> <p>I liked it</p> Actually, I felt the horror element all the way through. I mean, part of it was that it was on a horror podcast, so I knew there was something coming, but throughout the entire thing there was just this air of, I don’t know, mental instability and fragility, if that makes any sense.

I liked it

]]> By: Matthew Wayne Selznick http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-66 Matthew Wayne Selznick Fri, 01 Sep 2006 04:51:17 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-66 <p>Thanks for your kind words, Richard! I've encouraged my own readers and listeners to contact you with their comments about the story, as well.</p> <p>And Paul... if you're worried about my being typecast... wait until you hear <a href="http://www.lightoftheoutsider.com" rel="nofollow">"Light of the Outsider,"</a> mister! 180 degrees!</p> Thanks for your kind words, Richard! I’ve encouraged my own readers and listeners to contact you with their comments about the story, as well.

And Paul… if you’re worried about my being typecast… wait until you hear “Light of the Outsider,” mister! 180 degrees!

]]> By: Richard Dansky http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-65 Richard Dansky Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:09:18 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-65 <p>Thanks for the comments, folks. I really enjoyed the reading that Matthew gave the story. If you're interested, there's an essay on the genesis of the piece up over at http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/2006/08/better-fiction-through-adolescent.html</p> Thanks for the comments, folks. I really enjoyed the reading that Matthew gave the story. If you’re interested, there’s an essay on the genesis of the piece up over at http://www.storytellersunplugged.com/2006/08/better-fiction-through-adolescent.html

]]> By: The Sci Phi Show http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-64 The Sci Phi Show Wed, 30 Aug 2006 04:05:14 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-64 <p>I enjoyed the story, although I was wondering what the horror element was, until the end.</p> <p>I was wondering if the famous author would turn out to be some sort of psychic vampire the stole creativity or some such from promising authors in his seminars.</p> <p>But maybe I just watch too much star trek.</p> I enjoyed the story, although I was wondering what the horror element was, until the end.

I was wondering if the famous author would turn out to be some sort of psychic vampire the stole creativity or some such from promising authors in his seminars.

But maybe I just watch too much star trek.

]]> By: Jason http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-62 Jason Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:20:11 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-62 <p>I thought this story was excellent. Just knowing it was supposed to be a horror story really added to it, too. I was listening to it, and thinking, is the guy going to totally shoot him down? Is he going to steal his story? As an aspiring writer myself (Alright, Im still in high school, but Ive started submitting, so...) a lot of this story seemed really scary to me, in that kind of empathetically horrifying way, but I could sort of tell that what was scary for me might not be that scary to everyone... Brilliant writing, regardless.</p> I thought this story was excellent. Just knowing it was supposed to be a horror story really added to it, too. I was listening to it, and thinking, is the guy going to totally shoot him down? Is he going to steal his story? As an aspiring writer myself (Alright, Im still in high school, but Ive started submitting, so…) a lot of this story seemed really scary to me, in that kind of empathetically horrifying way, but I could sort of tell that what was scary for me might not be that scary to everyone… Brilliant writing, regardless.

]]> By: Damien G Walter http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-60 Damien G Walter Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:08:51 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-60 <p>heh heh heh...fantastic.</p> <p>Maybe this wasn't horror in the strictest sense, but it was a brilliant little exercise in black humour. And great portrait of the psychology of status as well. Brilliant.</p> heh heh heh…fantastic.

Maybe this wasn’t horror in the strictest sense, but it was a brilliant little exercise in black humour. And great portrait of the psychology of status as well. Brilliant.

]]> By: PaulJ http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-59 PaulJ Sat, 26 Aug 2006 08:58:53 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-59 <p>Faultless reading (really, MWS is in danger of being 'typecast' as the number 1 teenage-angst reader).</p> <p>As for the story -- well written and utterly convincing. Until the end. I just didn't believe the character would do that. And as the ending was the only thing that qualified the story as horror, I felt a bit...let down.</p> Faultless reading (really, MWS is in danger of being ‘typecast’ as the number 1 teenage-angst reader).

As for the story — well written and utterly convincing. Until the end. I just didn’t believe the character would do that. And as the ending was the only thing that qualified the story as horror, I felt a bit…let down.

]]> By: Dennis_Mahon http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-57 Dennis_Mahon Fri, 25 Aug 2006 23:49:38 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-57 <p>I saw the ending comming, but not exactly the way it was presented--I expected the protagonist to strike at someone random, not at someone he knew. Still, not bad.</p> I saw the ending comming, but not exactly the way it was presented–I expected the protagonist to strike at someone random, not at someone he knew. Still, not bad.

]]> By: Adolfo http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-56 Adolfo Fri, 25 Aug 2006 22:20:14 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-56 <p>For this one I'd say "Meh."</p> <p>I usually love what Mur and Escapepod have to offer but this one just didn't get me.</p> <p>I think the music for this podcast is a little flat and bland as well.</p> <p>I do like the podcast and love Mur's prelude to the stroy and quip at the end.</p> For this one I’d say “Meh.”

I usually love what Mur and Escapepod have to offer but this one just didn’t get me.

I think the music for this podcast is a little flat and bland as well.

I do like the podcast and love Mur’s prelude to the stroy and quip at the end.

]]> By: ben http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-52 ben Fri, 25 Aug 2006 06:15:44 +0000 http://pseudopod.org/2006/08/25/pseudopod-002-good-advice/#comment-52 <p>Sorry this was a few minutes late. If you grabbed this file before about 2:00am today (8/25), you probably got a slightly corrupted file. If you download it now you'll get one that sounds a lot better. Technical issues on our end -- shouldn't happen again.</p> Sorry this was a few minutes late. If you grabbed this file before about 2:00am today (8/25), you probably got a slightly corrupted file. If you download it now you’ll get one that sounds a lot better. Technical issues on our end — shouldn’t happen again.

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