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EPISODE · Apr 20, 2026 · 34 MIN

Part Two: No Outline. No Plan. Just Author Chaos

from The Podcast Has No Name · host Michael Chatfield

We finally did it. No name for the podcast yet, but we've got four authors, three countries, and somehow nobody could agree on anything except that writing is slowly destroying all of us.JM Clarke and Andy Peloquin joined me and Andrew this week and it went exactly as unhinged as you'd expect. We got into burning 800,000 words to the ground and starting over, dictating yourself off a cliff at 70,000 words, whether Harry Potter is secretly the mother of progression fantasy, Homer basically running a Patreon in ancient Greece, and the neurologist who told JM "yeah don't do that" after three years of four hours sleep and pure chaos energy.Andy also showed up halfway through like he just wandered in from another conversation. Which he kind of did. And it was perfect.Somehow we go from burnout and existential dread to Jim Butcher accidentally outlining an entire fantasy series in college to death in a heartbeat. Classic.Oh and Andrew forgot it was on his calendar. Had to run and get coffee mid-setup. We started without him. No regrets.No outline. No rails. Honestly the only way to do this.If you want updates on the podcast and the books, comment 'newsletter' and I'll get you added to the list.#AuthorPodcast #FantasyAuthors #LitRPG #ProgressionFantasy #WritingCommunity #BehindTheBook #MarkOfTheFool #Darkblade

We finally did it. No name for the podcast yet, but we've got four authors, three countries, and somehow nobody could agree on anything except that writing is slowly destroying all of us.JM Clarke and Andy Peloquin joined me and Andrew this week and it went exactly as unhinged as you'd expect. We got into burning 800,000 words to the ground and starting over, dictating yourself off a cliff at 70,000 words, whether Harry Potter is secretly the mother of progression fantasy, Homer basically running a Patreon in ancient Greece, and the neurologist who told JM "yeah don't do that" after three years of four hours sleep and pure chaos energy.Andy also showed up halfway through like he just wandered in from another conversation. Which he kind of did. And it was perfect.Somehow we go from burnout and existential dread to Jim Butcher accidentally outlining an entire fantasy series in college to death in a heartbeat. Classic.Oh and Andrew forgot it was on his calendar. Had to run and get coffee mid-setup. We started without him. No regrets.No outline. No rails. Honestly the only way to do this.If you want updates on the podcast and the books, comment 'newsletter' and I'll get you added to the list.#AuthorPodcast #FantasyAuthors #LitRPG #ProgressionFantasy #WritingCommunity #BehindTheBook #MarkOfTheFool #Darkblade

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