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📹 Video's impact: worth it?🤯 AI in fic pods and fanfic, Multilingual podcasting 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 workshop, 🧑‍💻AFF, Third Coast, and a furious casting call

Plus: the patience required to build your own vocal booth, and the chance to win £5000

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Lindsay Harris Friel
April 11, 2025

Issue 296 of The Fiction Podcast Weekly is brought to you by These 5 Podcasters Added Video – Here’s What Happened.

The debate about whether or not podcasts need video isn’t stopping anytime soon, at least, not as long as YouTube has anything to say about it. Katie Paterson spoke with different podcasters about whether or not video is worth the effort for their podcast. Find out why video worked or didn’t for them, in These 5 Podcasters Added Video- Here’s What Happened.

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Guest Editorial: Embracing Imperfection - Why slight imperfections make your podcast more relatable, or Progress > Perfection

Nowadays, technology can make voices, images, and text seem flawless.  But, as AI-generated voices, images, and text improve, deepfakes and scams become more prevalent, diminishing public trust. When Sofia Tilbury, the makeup artist responsible for Demi Moore’s Oscars’ night look, posted a photo of the actress on Instagram, distrust of the image spoke volumes in the comments. Yes, with technology, we can make anything seem perfect, but what’s that perfection gonna do for anyone? 

(You see what I did there, right?)  

Flaws make anything seem more trustworthy. When we hear a piece of music with a mistake or two, we’re more likely to believe that a person played it rather than a computer. A picture of someone whose face is covered with freckles, vitiligo, or scars can still be beautiful. 

Flaws and beauty have co-existed for centuries. A popular myth has circulated for decades that Amish quilt makers put a “humility block,” or an intentional mistake, in their quilts, to distract from unintentional mistakes, and because “only God can make something perfect.” In Japanese art, wabi-sabi refers to things that are beautiful due to gentle change over time. 

Striving for perfection in your podcast will not only keep you from publishing consistently, but also raise your stress levels and take all the enjoyment out of your podcast. Embrace your imperfections. They make your podcast unique, memorable, and meaningful to your audience. As Jack Kerouac once wrote, “It ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.” 

Milestones & Debuts

  • The Ghost of a Socialite from 1972 Who Haunts The Met Wonders Where Everybody Is Dolly Digby Royce, a foxy white socialite who died at The Met in 1972 and is stuck there for eternity investigates why the "living" have disappeared from the museum, all while fleeing a dark force from room to room. Only facing her past - and her privilege - can save her. Honesty is not Dolly's bag, man. But even ghosts can surprise themselves, ya dig?

  • Dead By Snow After being knocked out, Shaun has to survive freezing temperatures, monsters, and his own mental health, all the while looking for his daughter and ex-wife.

  • Moose on a Highway What happens when seven stranded travelers are forced to face the open road together and fall head first into new, destined beginnings?

Whether you believe fiction podcasts should comfort the afflicted, or afflict the comfortable, keep sharing good stories.

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