The Nuts and Bolts of Writing

In this episode, I, Fortunus Games, interview Helevorn (Instagram: @helevorn_bor) about how Tolkien's writings influenced her novels, "Sons of Disobedience" and "Lucky Wolf"!   "Lucky Wolf" is now out in hard copy and you can buy it through Helevorn - check out her Instagram post to find out more:   https://www.instagram.com/p/CRez6x8l9lr/ You can also read "Lucky Wolf" on Tapas: https:/...

READ "SCALE, BLOOD & BONE" here: https://tapas.io/series/Scale-Blood--Bone/infoTete's  Instagram: @tete.depunk  Cover art of "Scale, Blood & Bone" is done by Tete. Depunk!  Today, Tete and I talk about her new Tapas novel, "Scale, Blood, and Bone," and how it was inspired by my Tapas graphic novel, "The Book of Joel."   We talk about how "The Book of Joel" influenced "S...

Wren's Instagram: @wrenby_m  Helevorn's Instagram: @helevorn_bor   In this episode, I interview Wren and Helevorn about how J.R.R. Tolkien's works influenced them and how they first came across his works.   We talk about the differences between the Lord of the Rings books vs. the movies, why The Hobbit is easier to get into than LOTR for many people, and lesser-known Tolkien wo...

READ "SCALE, BLOOD & BONE" here: https://tapas.io/series/Scale-Blood--Bone/info Tete's Instagram: @tete.depunk   Cover art of "Scale, Blood & Bone" is done by Tete. Depunk! Today, Tete and I talk about her new Tapas novel, "Scale, Blood, and Bone," and how it was inspired by my Tapas graphic novel, "The Book of Joel."   We also talk about why she chose to post it on Tapas instead...

WATCH ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/ro7SyNQQNvE READ "BEYOND THE GREY SKIES" ON TAPAS: https://tapas.io/series/beyond-the-grey-skies/info  ENDLESSMIDNIGHTMOON's WEBSITE: https://www.endlessperiodicals.com/  ENDLESSMIDNIGHTMOON on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endlessmidnightmoon In this episode, me and @endlessmidnightmoon will be talking about the writing style of her @tapas_app n...

On YouTube: https://youtu.be/eXsWwk7BO4I Wren's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wrenby_m In this episode, I interview @wrenby_m on Instagram about their upcoming graphic novel, "The House on Caple Hill," which can be described as a fantasy or magic realism work about a young woman finding herself and finding bits of her soul. In this episode, we talk about the 9 parts of the soul according to...

ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/R_2IbLwdxBo READ "BEYOND THE GREY SKIES" ON TAPAS: https://tapas.io/series/beyond-the-grey-skies/info  ENDLESSMIDNIGHTMOON's WEBSITE: https://www.endlessperiodicals.com/   ENDLESSMIDNIGHTMOON on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endlessmidnightmoon   This podcast episode on @nutsboltswriting.podcast, me and @endlessmidnightmoon (from Instagram) are go...

An audio roleplay featuring @tete.depunk's Tamara and my character, Malka. Malka and Tamara befriend each other and talk about their friendships and relationships with others on the Lower East Side, including Andrei, Sam, and Joel. Artwork of Joel is by Fortunus Games and artwork of Tamara is by Tete. Depunk (colouring by Fortunus Games). Read Joel's character profile: https://www.fortunusgames.co...

An audio roleplay featuring @tete.depunk's Tamara and my character, Joel.   This is an alternative retelling of Joel's first meeting with Tamara, EP. 69 of this podcast, which you can listen to here: https://youtu.be/Q3VagIo7Z1U Artwork of Joel is by Fortunus Games and artwork of Tamara is by Tete. Depunk (colouring by Fortunus Games).   Read Joel's character profile: https://www.fortunu...

In this episode, me and Tete interview @wrenby_m on Instagram about their upcoming graphic novel, "The House on Caple Hill," which can be described as a fantasy or magic realism work about a young woman finding herself and finding bits of her soul.   Art on the thumbnail is by @wrenby_m.   Wren's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wrenby_m   We ask the following and more:  Co...

READ "BEYOND THE GREY SKIES" ON TAPAS: https://tapas.io/series/beyond-the-grey-skies/info ENDLESSMIDNIGHTMOON's WEBSITE: https://www.endlessperiodicals.com/  ENDLESSMIDNIGHTMOON on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endlessmidnightmoon   This podcast episode on @nutsboltswriting.podcast, me and @endlessmidnightmoon (from Instagram) are going to be talking about her @tapas_app novel, “B...

ON YOUTUBE (video included, with visuals): https://youtu.be/AGlTb0aYJHU Me and @tete.depunk (from Instagram) talk about three of my art pieces of Joel being featured in The Holy Art's virtual exhibit, Reflections.     Read more about my art being in The Holy Art (with links to the gallery): https://www.fortunusgames.com/post/exhibition-reflections-room-iii-the-holy-art   ...

PODCAST TWITTER: https://twitter.com/nuts_writingPODCAST INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/nutsboltswriting.podcast/ Listen to our podcast on Anchor (links to Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.): https://anchor.fm/fortunus-games  Read Helevorn's "Tales From the North" on Tapas: https://tapas.io/series/Tales-from-the-North1/info  Follow Helevorn on Instagram: @helevorn_bor  Follow me o...

In this episode, Tete and Fortunus talk about "The Counterlife" by Philip Roth, one of Fortunus' favorite novels that Tete also read a few years ago.  We talk about how our views of this metafictional novel have changed since we first read it back in 2016 and how it explores the following themes: The nature of writing as a writer Using writing as a way of conducting thought experiments Siblin...

An audio roleplay featuring @tete.depunk's Tamara and my character, Joel.  This takes place after Tete's Andrei and Joel argue about why Joel is not approaching his potential love interest, Malka, and prefers sulking and hoping his feelings for her will pass, because he thinks there is no point in having a relationship. Andrei decides to introduce Joel to Tamara, a woman whom he hopes will ch...

Happy Mother's Day! This is an audio roleplay featuring @tete.depunk 's Tamara and my characters from my Tapas, Webtoon, and TheNinth.art graphic novel, "Sam in New York," Sam and his mother, Raisa. Get ready to learn more about Tamara in the upcoming weeks. Learn more about her in Episode 68 of this podcast, which is also on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ltwkpMagKCw Artwork of Sam and Raisa is by For...

Tete talks about Tamara, a new character who will have a large impact on Andrei in her story, "70 Fierce Years". She replaces Dasha as Andrei's wife.  We talk about how Tamara is somewhat inspired by an older character of hers, Natalia, and how Natalia has "grown up" since becoming Tamara. Artwork by Andrei is by Tete. Depunk. Follow Tete on deviantArt and Instagram for more stuff about...

Artwork here is by Fortunus Games and the audio was edited with Anchor.fm, where we also got the music transitions and sound effects from. This episode features Tete and Fortunus' live role play featuring Tete's character, Andrei Novokshonov, and my character Ardalion Mayakov! This is an alternative universe (AU) role play where Ardalion and Andrei are in 1930s Russia. Ardalion is a character from...

In this episode, Tete and I discuss her return to Andrei Novokshonov's story. We talk about the changes she's made to his story since 2020 and why she's made these changes. The most major change we discuss here is the addition of new characters such as Tamara and Elena, and the deletion of older characters like Dasha.    Artwork by Andrei is by me, Fortunus Games.  Follow Tete on de...

Artwork here is by Fortunus Games and the audio was edited with Anchor.fm, where we also got the music transitions and sound effects from. This episode features Tete and Fortunus' live role play featuring Tete's character, Andrei Novokshonov, and my character Ardalion Mayakov! This is an alternative universe (AU) role play where Ardalion and Andrei are in 1930s Russia. Ardalion is a character from...

Artwork featuring Joel is by Fortunus Games and this episode was edited on Anchor.fm, where we also got our transitions and sound effects from. This episode features Tete and Fortunus' live role play featuring Tete's character, Andrei Novokshonov, and Joel Farber! Joel is the main character of the upcoming graphic novel by Fortunus Games, "The Book of Joel," and is also a side character in the gra...

Artwork here is by Fortunus Games and the audio was edited with Anchor.fm, where we also got the music transitions and sound effects from. This episode features Tete and Fortunus' live role play featuring Tete's character, Lera (Valeriy) Zimin, and Katya Luneva! This is an alternative universe (AU) role play where Katya and Andrei are in 1930s Russia. Katya is a character from my graphic novel, "S...

READ THE PROLOGUE/TEASER OF "THE BOOK OF JOEL" HERE: https://tapas.io/series/The-Book-of-Joel/info  For more information on the series, check out my site: https://www.fortunusgames.com.  Check out Malka's character profile: https://www.fortunusgames.com/post/malka-spitzer  Check out Joel's character profile: https://www.fortunusgames.com/post/joel-farber  Follow Tete on Instagr...

Artwork here is by Fortunus Games and the audio was edited with Anchor.fm, where we also got the music transitions and sound effects from. This episode features Tete and Fortunus' live role play featuring Tete's character, Andrei Novokshonov, and Katya Luneva! This is an alternative universe (AU) role play where Katya and Andrei are in 1930s Russia. Katya is a character from my graphic novel, "Sam...

READ "BEYOND THE GREY SKIES" ON TAPAS: https://tapas.io/series/beyond-the-grey-skies/info  ENDLESSMIDNIGHTMOON on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/endlessmidnightmoon  This podcast episode on @nutsboltswriting.podcast, me and @endlessmidnightmoon (from Instagram) are going to be talking about her @tapas_app novel, “Beyond the Grey Skies,” which is an #alternativehistory novel that ta...