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The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Love's Corner Case"
Look, there’s nothing like a Tennyson poem to make you question everything about love, life, and immortality. And you know what? That’s the fun part. If you can look at Tithonus, reflect on that grim future, and still believe in love, you’re either a masochist or incredibly optimistic. But that’s the whole point, right? Life, love, and time - none of it makes sense.

The Snark
May 304 min read


Podcast | Love Unscripted | Love’s Corner Case
Tim and LeeAnna – and Alfred, Lord Tennyson – talk about what it means when love’s beauty fades, when immortality isn’t just a dream, but a “living hell”. We’ll also hit on how some relationships can evolve into a painfully unfixable mess. So grab a tissue (you’ll need it) and tune in to the podcast that proves eternal love can really suck.
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May 302 min read


Writer's Prompts | Love Unscripted | Fix It or Forget It
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Love Unscripted | Fix It or Forget It"
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May 222 min read


The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Love Unscripted | Fix It or Forget It"
Repair Attempts: Because Who Needs to Have a Healthy Argument When You Can Just Make It Worse for Your Characters?

The Snark
May 227 min read


Podcast | Love Unscripted | Fix It or Forget It
Whether you’re a writer looking to add some depth to your fictional couples or just a human who’s had one too many “whataboutism” blow-ups, this episode is for you!
Effigy Press Admin
May 222 min read


Writer's Prompts | Love Unscripted | Riding The Four Horsemen
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Love Unscripted | Riding The Four Horsemen"
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May 152 min read


Podcast | Love Unscripted | Riding The Four Horsemen
From jabs of criticism to emotional retreat, we’ve got your guide to the worst relationship habits - and how to write them without setting your characters on fire (well, not immediately). Get ready for some brutal truth and a one very angry (fictional) couple.
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May 151 min read


The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Love Unscripted | Riding The Four Horsemen"
Tim dives into the first Horseman of the Relationship Apocalypse: Criticism. Oh, joy. Apparently, criticizing your partner isn’t just about voicing your displeasure over them leaving their dirty socks everywhere. Nope, that’s just a complaint. Criticism is the attack on their very soul, because you’re now “questioning their entire character.” Get it right, folks - if you’re going to nitpick, you better do it in an existential way.

The Snark
May 154 min read


Podcast | Love Unscripted | Love in Full Color: The Emotional Landscape
This week on Alchemy, Tim and LeeAnna crack open the hood of modern romance to show us what love looks like when it’s firing on all cylinders… or stalling dramatically on the freeway of emotional dysfunction.
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May 81 min read


Writer's Prompts | Love in Full Color: The Emotional Landscape
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Love Unscripted | Love in Full Color: The Emotional Landscape"
Effigy Press Admin
May 82 min read


The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Love Unscripted | Love in Full Color: The Emotional Landscape"
Tim advises writers to build characters who are emotionally complex, full of contradictions, and hopefully not emotionally totaled by chapter three. He urges you to give your characters engines too - emotional ones, with inputs and outputs. Let them stall, restart, sputter, maybe explode.

The Snark
May 84 min read


Writer's Prompts | Love Unscripted | Love’s Quiet Desperation… Prufrock’s Struggle with Desire
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Love Unscripted | Love’s Quiet Desperation… Prufrock’s Struggle with Desire"
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May 11 min read


The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Love Unscripted | Love’s Quiet Desperation… Prufrock’s Struggle with Desire"
LeeAnna signs off with the most backhanded compliment of the day to Tim: "You’re so good with this disillusionment thing."

The Snark
May 14 min read


Podcast | Love Unscripted | Love’s Quiet Desperation… Prufrock’s Struggle with Desire
Welcome to the Alchemy’s podcast, where Tim and LeeAnna take on The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - the ultimate guide to how not to face your feelings (or do much of anything, really). Along the way: dead Popes, risqué Bible passages, a prophecy about the death of podcasting, and one balding, peach-fearing romantic in freefall. Come for the poetry, stay for the existential dread - and maybe bring a drink. You’ll need it.
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May 11 min read


The Snark | When Confidence is Really Just a Cheap Disguise
Look, let’s be honest. Life’s full of narcissists, co-dependents, and all their messy, twisted relationships.

The Snark
Apr 284 min read


The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Love Unscripted | The Love Archipelago"
At the end of this Love Archipelago tour, what are we left with? A whole lot of emotional wreckage, existential crises, and - yes - some very real truths about love.

The Snark
Apr 244 min read


Writer's Prompts | Love Unscripted... The Love Archipelago
Writer's Prompts for the podcast "Love Unscripted... The Love Archipelago"
Effigy Press Admin
Apr 241 min read


Podcast | Love Unscripted... The Love Archipelago
In this episode of Alchemy, Tim and LeeAnna set sail through the Love Archipelago, exploring the rocky islands of human emotion. If you’re ready to question everything about love, relationships, and whether we’re all just stumbling through life, this episode is for you. Spoiler: no one’s escaping the wreckage.
Effigy Press Admin
Apr 241 min read


The Snark on Alchemy Podcast "Join Club Confusion… Contradictions and the Human Condition"
So here’s the challenge: create characters who have no idea how to live with their paradoxes—because, spoiler alert, neither do we!

The Snark
Apr 174 min read


Podcast | Welcome to Club Confusion… Contradictions and the Human Condition
Get ready for a wild ride of snark, bad decisions, and surprisingly insightful moments (we promise, they’re in there somewhere).
Effigy Press Admin
Apr 171 min read
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