The Onomatopodcast is the writerly equivalent of New Game Radio, an audio podcast I hosted with friends Troy D. Patterson, Calin Grajko, and Dan Squire, with whom I started the communal video game blog new game +. The site’s still up these days, but it isn’t ours. We passed the torch to some other young, passionate game enthusiasts—indie game lovers using the spectacular website name (my idea, thank you very much) for their own cause, one we wish them all the luck on and would gladly guest blog or ‘cast or whatever else they’d have us over for.
As for the New Game Crew, our respective lives took us in very different directions, and we were unable to continue regularly recording New Game Radio. However, my love for podcasting, for conversation and the exploration discourse allows never wavered. I’ve been wanting to start a new podcast ever since New Game Radio folded, but I couldn’t think of anything in the world to podcast about.
Then it hit me—here I was, a writer at the start of his journey, surrounded by professors of writing, professors of English and literary analysis, MFA students, and other assorted soon-to-be-if-not-already authors at various stages of the same journey I’ve just begun. Why not dispense with pretenses of expertise and do a podcast in which the guests are always fresh and the angle we explore various topics—dialogue, writing in film, writing in video games, prose, writing for specific genres, the writing process, getting an agent, finding a publisher, and all the other countless topics that could be tackled—is one of uncertainty, of thought and theory and not world-weary practice and experience. An aural exploration into the world of writing—fun, even silly at times, but still able to breach topics seriously without any business suit attire.
Zune and iTunes feeds coming soon.
The Onomatopodcast
Episode -1: Not the Onomatopodcast
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Episode 0: A Drink (and Smoke) before the War
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