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As our course on politics and speculative fiction draws to a close, we talk with author Will Cornell about how the intersection of politics and speculative fiction should and does impact our writing. We discuss how the "why" behind your writing intersects with politics and what it means to publish.This is our last episode before our yearly hiatus! Thank you so much for listening to Quid Prose Quo this year and we'll see you in 2026!Will Cornell can be found on Instagram @willcornell_author. https://www.instagram.com/willcornell_author/If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

Have you ever stopped yourself from writing what you wanted to write? In this episode, Zac and Rin discuss Ursula Le Guin's "The Stalin in the Soul" and what warnings it holds for writers. We discuss how capitalism and culture influence decisions about what we write and how we publish.We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Our sponsor today: Blue Caterpillar Consulting! Check them out at ckjensenauthor.com/bcc or email them bluecaterpillarconsulting@gmail.com Further Reading:Le Guin, Ursula K. “The Stalin in the Soul.” Essay. In The Language of The Night: Essays on Writing, Science Fiction, and Fantasy. New York: Scribner, 2024.If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

Agents are censoring authors! Cancel culture has gone too far! These are common refrains these days, wherever you stand in the political landscape. In this episode, Zac and Rin discuss how institutions and networks curate the political content of books and what that means for writers.We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Our sponsor today: Blue Caterpillar Consulting! Check them out at ckjensenauthor.com/bcc or email them bluecaterpillarconsulting@gmail.comFurther Reading:Chen, Meng-Shi. “Ethics of Curating.” Curatography, June 30, 2025. https://curatography.org/5-3-en/. Martinon, Jean-Paul. Curating As Ethics. University of Minnesota Press, 2020. Olney, M.S. “The Impact of ‘Woke’ on Creativity and Fantasy.” EPIC Indie, June 25, 2025. https://epicindie.substack.com/p/the-impact-of-woke-on-creativity.If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

Is romance a liberal genre? And is fantasy a conservative genre? Where does that leave romantasy? In today's epsiode, Rin and Zac analyze how political commitments intersect with the conventions of romance, horror, fantasy, scifi, punk genres, and grimdark. We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Sources:Fox, Frank W., and Clayne L. Pope. 2017. City Upon a Hill: The Legacy of America’s Founding.If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

We're beginning a course on the intersection of writing and politics! In this first episode, Zac and Rin discuss the nature of politics, the political value of reading, and how to assess the political value of a book.We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Our sponsor: www.bartertoast.comSources:Fox, Frank W., and Clayne L. Pope. 2017. City Upon a Hill: The Legacy of America’s Founding.If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

To round out our series on fairy tales, we invite Monica Shantel onto the show! Monica is an independent Dark Romantasy author, and you can find her on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube @lxstinneverlandWe want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Our sponsor: www.bartertoast.comIf you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

This week we have a special guest: Zac's wife Paulee! Paulee is an archivist who specializes in privacy protections for folklore material and she joins us today to bring a folklore perspective to our discussion on fairy tales. We cover everything from folk tales to creepy pasta to Harambe!We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Our sponsor: www.bartertoast.comSources:“Fairy Tales Source 1.” National Library of Scotland. Accessed May 8, 2025. https://www.nls.uk/learning-zone/literature-and-language/themes-in-focus/fairy-tales/source-1/. Rajmoolie, Vidya Natasha. “Once upon a Fairy Tale: An Overview of Traditional & Alternative Fairy Tales.” QSpace, April 29, 2011. https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/items/9601c68c-15b2-4742-a7f6-1b324b1dd2e3. “Once upon a Time.” Wikipedia, May 4, 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_upon_a_time.If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode, Zac and Rin discuss the elements of a fairytale retelling and how to build your own! They also briefly explain the role of archives and the public domain to fairytale retellings.We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Our sponsor: www.bartertoast.comSources:Rajmoolie, Vidya  Natasha. “Once Upon a Fairy Tale: An Overview of Traditional & Alternative Fairy Tales,” 2011. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/6473Adams, Caralee. “Once Upon a Click: Librarian’s Fairy Tale Journey with the Internet Archive.” Internet archive blogs, January 29, 2024. https://blog.archive.org/2024/01/29/once-upon-a-click-librarians-fairy-tale-journey-with-the-internet-archive/.If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

Today, Rin and Zac begin a new course all about fairytales! In this episode we discuss fairytales as a genre of folklore and how their telling both reflects and informs the culture they come from. We also discuss how academics break down fairytales into motifs and compare them across cultures.We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Our sponsor: www.bartertoast.comSources:https://sites.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm021.html Cinderella- The brothers grimmThe Brothers Grimm: From Enchanted Forests to the Modern World- Jack Zipes (this is a book! You can find copies online (for cheap if you’re lucky… if you’re not, prepare to shell out $50 a copy!)https://guides.library.harvard.edu/folk_and_myth/indices ATU indexhttps://repositorio.iscte-iul.pt/bitstream/10071/16507/1/Fairy-Tale%20Symbolism.pdf Fairy tale Symbolism by Francisco Vaz da SilvaIf you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

We're wrapping up our planetary science course with our case study from an indepedent author: Rise by Brian Guthrie! We discuss a world torn apart and flipped on its head with edges you can fall of. We also discuss how the setting acts as both critique and source of conflict in the story.You can find Brian across social media platforms by his handle @guthron or at guthron.com We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

Zac and Rin discuss The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu and how it demonstrates some of the concepts covered in our course on planetary science for worldbuilding.Next week we'll be discussing Rise by Brian Guthrie as our indie author showcase. If you'd like to see some of the other wonderful books that were pitched to us, you can find them here: https://www.threads.net/@ckjensenauthor/post/DFxfcDqudsQ?xmt=AQGzVYXlz7jwbn7N6cBmOUvfwHxksDBzW0Re-WNiXCX1_w We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

In our final episode of Planetary Science for Worldbuilding, Zac and Rin discuss galactic structure and how authors can use it when designing intergalactic civilizationsWe want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Sources:Mason, P. A., and P. L. Biermann. ‘The Large-Scale Structure of Habitability in the Universe’. In Habitable Worlds 2017: A System Science Workshop, edited by LPI Editorial Board, 2042:4149. LPI Contributions, 2017.Abe, Shige. 2020. “NASA Astrobiology.” Nasa.gov. 2020. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/galactic-habitable-zones/.Gowanlock, M. G., D. R. Patton, and S. M. McConnell. ‘A Model of Habitability Within the Milky Way Galaxy’. Astrobiology 11, no. 9 (November 2011): 855–73. https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2010.0555.If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

In our second episode of Planetary Science for Worldbuilding, Rin and Zac go on our tour of the solar system to talk about moons and rings and how they can be used to create distinctive secondary worlds. In this episode, we talked about Ron Miller's image series depicting rings in the Earth's sky. If you want to check out these images, along with commentary by Charles Q. Choi, head to https://www.livescience.com/what-if-earth-had-rings.htmlWe want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Sources:Canup, R. M., & Ward, W. R. (2002). Formation of the Galilean Satellites: Conditions of Accretion. https://nasa.gov Moon formation and orbital evolution in extrasolar planetary systems-A literature review, K Lewis – EPJ Web of Conferences, 2011 – epj-conferences.orgIf you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

For our first course of 2025, we're delving into a topic near and dear to Zac's heart: planetary science. In this episode we review the different kinds of stars and they fit together in multi stellar systems. We also talk about the arrangement of planets around stars and how habitable zones influence the kinds of planets one can expect to find. We want to read your comments on the show! If you have a response to one of our homework assignments you want to share, send it to quidprosequo@gmail.com and we'd love to read it at the top of the show!Sources:Mishra, L., Alibert, Y., Udry, S., & Mordasini, C. (2023). Framework for the architecture of exoplanetary systems. I. Four classes of planetary system architecture.Salyk, C., & Lewis, K. (2020). Introductory Notes on Planetary Science. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

How should I offer feedback? In this week's episode, Rin and Zac read "Becoming the Falconer" by Dobsen and Gilbert and reflect on their experiences both giving and receiving feedback.You can read Dobsen and Gilbert's article here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14790726.2024.2329198If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

While this was supposed to be posted a few weeks ago, after we didn't have a weekly episode, we've been encountering lots of technical difficulties. We thank you for your patience and are excited to speak with you again come 2025. Good luck, and happy writing :)If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

What is the relationship between myths and the societies that produce them? What happens when those societies aren't around anymore? This week, Zac and Rin discuss Jacob and Menon's Mython, Myth, & Mythopoeia and what it tells authors about the relationship between culture, literature, and fandomYou can read Jacob and Menon's article here: https://dc.swosu.edu/mythlore/vol42/iss1/9/If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

Everyone loves a good myth retelling, but what does it take to create a new myth? Can it even be done? Zac and Rin discuss Mythopoesis in the Modern World by M. Alan Kazlev and offer their thoughts on what this means for authors.If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

Kicking off our new episode format, Rin and Zac discuss two articles about the psychology of writing. Our first study by Forgeard, Kaufman and Kaufman, considers the link between psychopathology and creative writing while our second paper by Tsatsou-Nikolouli explains how creative writing can contribute to mental health and well-being.This Week's Articles: The Psychology of Creative Writing, Forgeard, Kaufman & KaufmanPositive Psychology and Creative Writing in Education,Tsatsou-NikolouliIf you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe

In this special 100th Episode, Zac and Rin reflect on what's come before and embark on an exciting new direction! Going forward, Quid Prose Quo will be a podcast dedicated to bringing academic research to creative writing. Check out excerpts from our upcoming episodes in this celebratory episode!Rin's five favorite episodes are:Writing Religious Fantasy with Will Cornell (84-85)Managing Backburner Projects (44)Our series on Worldbuilding (53-65)Writing Satisfying Endings (73)Tracking your Writing (80)Zac's five favorite episodes are:Historical Consciousness with Paulee (79)Randomness in Worldbuilding (24)Economics for Writers (49)Finding Your Wrtiting Why (98)Book Club: Real Artists Don't Starve (20-23)If you liked the show, here’s a few things you can do to support us! First, leave a rating to help us grow!Second, join our Community Discord!Second, follow us on social media: Instagram or Facebook!Third, check out our hosts and show them some love!C. K. Jensen is a self-published author currently in the query trenches for their next book. Their work focuses on fairy tale retellings and queer stories.They would talk about writing all day every day with everyone if they could, but they can’t, so they run this podcast instead. You can find them at ckjensenauthor.com, or on any social media @ckjensenauthor.D. C. Wynters is a speculative fiction author and astrophysics PhD student from the Pacific Northwest. His work blends the thematic concern of literary fiction with the entertainment value of genre fiction. He and his wife enjoy playing games, watching movies, and composing music together. You can find him at dcwynters.com or on Instagram @dcwynters. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit ckjensenauthor.substack.com/subscribe