Welcome to Rite Gud. The podcast that helps you write good. I’m RS Benedict. We’ve been putting out this podcast for five years now, and it has been quite a ride. I’ve been genuinely surprised by the outsized response we’ve gotten. We’ve made a lot of friends and a lot of enemies. We’ve triggered multiple tempests in multiple teapots, without even …

The Ninth Episode of Infinite Danger, providing you with content that’ll make you go, “That’s Incredible!” Episode 9, Vet’s Holiday: not a sitcom but an incredible facsimile. Lion’s Gate Bridge. Beige. City Mouse and Country Mouse. The Green Goblin. Beige. The president of ACTRA BC, maybe. Saucy Boy. MS Paint Lightning Bolts. Definitely haunted chi…

There are many podcasts about writing, but how many are there about wellness? Approximately a million billion. And they all want you to know: you’re doing everything wrong, and you should buy my product. Tan your taint! Eat raw bull testicles! Wake up at 4am every day! In this episode, Kurt Schiller joins us to talk about the hellish wellness indus…

The Eighth Episode of Infinite Danger, providing you with further BIG GAMING NEWS. Episode 8, Fish n’ Chips, in which the geopolitical allegiances of the poachers are revealed: The Styrofoam Box Eels. Political Rubber Masks. The Mysterious H.G. Berns. A well-paid career of Lookin’ Like Gargamel. Gallium Arsenide. Thames Television’s “Database.” Cou…

In this podcast, we tend to focus on the craft of writing: handling character, setting, theme, and so on. But there’s another side to writing, the business side. We acknowledge it but don’t talk about it a lot on this podcast, mostly because, to be perfectly honest, I’m not very good at it. I make very little money doing this. I have a day job for …

The Seventh Episode of Infinite Danger, featuring Will repeatedly failing to make the distinction between “hawk” and “falcon.” Episode 7, Flight of the Falcon, in which we meet the SKY POACHERS: Winches. Lifting. Wheelchairs. A retreat to Gibraltar. Child Labour. Bubblegum Power Moves. 3D Models from Danger Bay 64. The Urban Falcon Project. Neon Ri…

Many writers dream of moving to one of the big cool culture cities to make it. New York. L.A. Portland. Seattle. Increasingly, Austin. But not all of us can live there, for whatever reason. Some of us live in itty bitty rural hamlets, and we’re happy there. Some of us live in cities with a terrific cultural scene, but the city gets overlooked for b…

The sixth episode of Infinite Danger, plus a quick vocal warmup. Episode 6, Katie and the Whale, the lifetime fish drama episode: Cosby Mysteries. Major Briggs. Elective Mutism. Iron Deficiencies. Why we don’t know much about whales. Marineland’s Scenic Empty Field. Bjossa. Everyone knows that the captain of a ship is in charge of the ship. But did…

What’s in a name? A lot, really. That’s why they’re so hard to come up with. Parents agonize over picking the right baby name for their children. We gave up on naming this podcast. And as authors, sometimes it’s hard to come up with a good name for your character or your imaginary monster, or your fake magical bullshit. So in this episode, a writer…

The fifth episode of Infinite Danger brings you HUGE GAMING NEWS! Episode 5, The Contender, in which Jonah could have saved the starving third world if it weren’t for The Woman: Legit tennis bonafides. The Burger Shack. Space Command. Tarzan, Tarzan, Tarzan. Darwin’s Nightmare. Dad’s new breeding techniques. Why Jonah must overcome slave morality. …