Episode 335 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
In this week’s episode, I talk to fiction writer Jane Ridgeway about our stories and characters choosing us instead of the other way around, the delicious problem of historical fiction, and what teenagers today like to read, among other topics.

Jane Ridgeway by Steve Erwin.
Episode 335 of The Drunken Odyssey, your favorite podcast about creative writing and literature is available on iTunes, or right click here to download.
Has anyone else noticed how much Jane Ridgeway sounds like Barbara Eden? It’s amazing! I don’t know how much this informs on her actual writing and kudos to her for defending the long short story that takes longer than a commute to finish, but it’s like I’m listening to Barbara Eden talk about some stuff she’s written.
Maybe the aural experience does inform on her writing? Don’t listen to it as if Jeannie is reading—it’s more ‘Harper Valley PTA’ I’m thinking of. If ‘thinking’ can be used in this context.