109: Fiasco – Why We Love Writing Characters Who Fail (feat. Amber of Tadpole Press)

This week we explored failure in fiction—what makes a fiasco fun to read, how to balance comedy and tragedy, and why characters falling flat on their faces (figuratively or literally) makes for such good storytelling. Bonus points if it all goes wrong because of one small, terrible choice.Then we read stories for Fiasco, and everything predictably fell apart—in the best way.Amber of Tadpole Press writes with us today!Amber is the founder and CEO of Tadpole Press. Enter Tadpole Press' 100-word story contest! It's an international writing contest celebrating community and creativity. These are things we love here at Radio Freewrite. Like this weeks episode and wish you could read as well as listen? Subscribe to our Substack for a summary of our opening discussion, a story from the episode, and a writing prompt!  Be sure to follow us on Instagram (if that's your sort of thing). Please do send us an email with your story if you write along, which we hope you will do. Episodes of Radio FreeWrite are protected by a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-ND 4.0) license. All Stories remain the property of their respective authors.