How We Grew Our Storytelling Podcasts to 1,000,000 Downloads

Seems to us that if you’re a podcaster, especially a fiction podcaster, the title above should be irresistible. It certainly was for us.

a Project Hatch Interview with Travis Vengroff and Kaitlin Statz

We had been working to create podcasts as a hobby and side hustle for about a year and a half before we came up with the idea to brand ourselves as a single company (or duo) creating multiple shows. As we create more shows, we established Fool & Scholar Productions as a way to organize our works and establish brand recognition. read article

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS AUDIO EDITION – 05/07/2020

by Bob Tinsley

Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.

The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent. 

So here’s the latest news to help you and your podcast get discovered:  read article

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS AUDIO EDITION – 04/30/2020

by Bob Tinsley

Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.

The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.  read article

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY NEWS AUDIO EDITION – 04/23/2020

by Bob Tinsley

Why should you as a visitor to TVWriter™ be interested in making audio fiction? Why should you be interested in making podcasts? Discoverability, that’s why.

The meaning of the word podcast is evolving to include any episodic, audio-only production whether nonfiction or fiction. Agents and major studios have started trawling through podcasts and their creators for new content and talent.  read article

The Basics of Writing Audio Scripts/Radio Drama

TVWriter™ is right this very minute preparing a TVWriter™ University class on writing podcast fiction/audio fiction/radio-type drama. It will be taught by the esteemed Bob Tinsley, our go-to podcast fiction/audio fiction/radio-type drama/yada yada guy, and there will be more news about it as soon as all the details are worked out.

Until that glorious day arrives, however, here’s a very solid intro to, you know, the basics.

A comedy sketch presenting the basic concepts of writing for audio theater/ radio drama. By the award-winning audio dramatist, Roger Gregg of Crazy Dog Audio Theatre. In a special edition profiling his work,BBC Radio 4’s A World In Your Ear hailed Gregg as ‘one of a handful of truly great radio dramatists.’ read article