{"name":"Fictional Problems","short_name":"Fictional Problems","theme_color":"#ffffff","start_url":"/","display":"standalone","background_color":"#fff","description":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Welcome, wanderers of the written word, to Fictional Problems, the podcast where two mostly-human writers embark on a quest to conquer the many-headed beast known as speculative fiction.</span></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Whether you’re tuning in from a dystopian megacity, a haunted library, or a coffee shop on the moons of Jupiter, this is the place where we talk all things writing. The monsters. The magic systems. The space-time paradoxes we accidentally write ourselves into at 2 a.m.</span></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Your hosts are Gary J. Martin and A.R. McNevin, two relatively unknown scribblers armed with nothing but questionable outlines, half-finished novels, and a reckless amount of worldbuilding notes.</span></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This podcast is about the how of writing, our personal processes, the strange rituals we swear by, and the philosophical rabbit holes we dive down just to figure out how a telepathic fungus economy might work.<br /></span></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Each episode, we’ll share the nuts and bolts of our storytelling, from character arcs to plot twists to how many metaphors are too many.</span></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><br />So grab your quill, your keyboard, or your neural input node, and join us. This is Fictional Problems. </span></p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Let the overthinking begin...</span></p>","icons":[{"src":"https://deow9bq0xqvbj.cloudfront.net/image-logo/21358420/Fictional_Problems_distribution_logob9oi0_300x300.jpg","sizes":"300x300","type":"image/png"}]}