A.E. Wells on a Podcast
I was recently on the Bad Lit Friends Podcast!
1/25/20261 min read
I was recently on the Bad Lit Friends Podcast, which I’m a huge fan of. We talked about writing groups and critique partners—and then went much deeper.
We dug into what actually makes a writing group work, how to find one that won’t make you miserable, and why some writers seem weirdly drawn to tearing others apart. (Is it their kink? We’re not here to kink-shame… but also, yes, we are.) We also talked about where to find your people—Discord servers, Blue Sky, conferences, local guilds, boring weddings, maybe?—and shared tips for keeping a group healthy long-term, including the most important question you should ask yourself: Are you miserable?
In Hot Goss, we discussed a BookTuber’s garbage take that Romantasy readers are “not the brightest sparks” and tools of the patriarchy, and why attacking an entire genre and its readership is, frankly, not cool.
Bad Lit Friends was created and hosted by Meagan Thompson-Mann and Kirk Rafferty.
Thanks for having me—chaos, opinions, and all.
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