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The Wayfarer's Guide to Worldbuilding
The Wayfarer’s Guide to Worldbuilding is a tool to help writers, DMs, and creatives build better worlds. Each episode explores one facet of worldbuilding—such as drafting the perfect city map, making a monster, or building an ancient religion—and, with the help of an expert, gives practical advice on how to make these elements realistic.
Along the way, we also compare and contrast these ideas with the great sci-fi and fantasy worldbuilders who came before us: Tolkien, Whedon, Roddenberry, Lucas, Rowling, and so many more. If you love dreaming up other worlds, join us wayfarers as we explore how to make our settings unique, scientific, and magical.
4 Steps to Writing Song Lyrics for a Fictional World
Winnipeg musician, songwriter, and YouTuber Dan Bergman guests in this first episode of the Wayfarer’s Guide to Worldbuilding, giving us some practical steps to writing great songs for the worlds we create.
Emma Skrumeda
Podcast Host
Emma Skrumeda is a makeup artist, writer, and half-elf Tempest Cleric. She owes her allegiance to the Fire Nation and House Hufflepuff. Emma has been writing since elementary school, and likes to think that she has improved since then. She can usually be found staring at a laptop while muttering about sentence structure and character arcs. Fantasy is her jam, which makes worldbuilding her bread and butter. Delicious.
In the real world, Emma lives in the frozen wasteland known as Winnipeg with her husband (Quynn), their two cats (Arthur and Pippin), and the four plants she has been managing to keep alive (Len, Bertie, Zhu Li, and Treebeard).
Kyle Rudge
Podcast Host & Marketing Director
Kyle has over ten years of experience in marketing and has been the program director and morning show host for two successful radio stations. He loves giving authors the individual attention they deserve and is passionate about working with science fiction and fantasy projects.
A geek through-and-through, Kyle loves Ender’s Game, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly. He’s also a jungle main, a Ravenclaw, and The Wayfarer’s Guide to Worldbuilding podcast host! He’s a husband and father of 2 humans and retains guardianship over 2 furry companions. And he’s someone who loves seeing others reach their full creative potential.
Emma Skrumeda
Podcast Host
Emma Skrumeda is a makeup artist, writer, and half-elf Tempest Cleric. She owes her allegiance to the Fire Nation and House Hufflepuff. When catching Pokémon she’s Team Instinct, and when ranking Star Trek Captains it’s a close call between Janeway and Picard.
Emma has been writing since elementary school, and likes to think that she has improved since then. She is currently working on the second draft of a novel, and so can usually be found staring at a laptop while muttering about sentence structure and character arcs. Fantasy is her jam, which makes worldbuilding her bread and butter. Delicious.
In the real world, Emma lives in the frozen wasteland known as Winnipeg with her husband (Quynn), their two cats (Arthur and Pippin), and the four plants she has been managing to keep alive (Len, Bertie, Zhu Li, and Treebeard).
Kyle Rudge
Marketing Director
Kyle has over ten years of experience in marketing and has been the program director and morning show host for two successful radio stations. He loves giving authors the individual attention they deserve and is passionate about working with science fiction and fantasy projects.
A geek through-and-through, Kyle loves Ender’s Game, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly. He’s also a jungle main, a Ravenclaw, and The Wayfarer’s Guide to Worldbuilding podcast host! He’s a husband and father of 2 humans and retains guardianship over 2 furry companions. And he’s someone who loves seeing others reach their full creative potential.
Non-submission emails can go to him here: kyle@mythosink.com
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Emma Skrumeda
Podcast Host
Emma Skrumeda is a makeup artist, writer, and half-elf Tempest Cleric. She owes her allegiance to the Fire Nation and House Hufflepuff. When catching Pokémon she’s Team Instinct, and when ranking Star Trek Captains it’s a close call between Janeway and Picard.
Emma has been writing since elementary school, and likes to think that she has improved since then. She is currently working on the second draft of a novel, and so can usually be found staring at a laptop while muttering about sentence structure and character arcs. Fantasy is her jam, which makes worldbuilding her bread and butter. Delicious.
In the real world, Emma lives in the frozen wasteland known as Winnipeg with her husband (Quynn), their two cats (Arthur and Pippin), and the four plants she has been managing to keep alive (Len, Bertie, Zhu Li, and Treebeard).
Kyle Rudge
Marketing Director
Kyle has over ten years of experience in marketing and has been the program director and morning show host for two successful radio stations. He loves giving authors the individual attention they deserve and is passionate about working with science fiction and fantasy projects.
A geek through-and-through, Kyle loves Ender’s Game, Battlestar Galactica, and Firefly. He’s also a jungle main, a Ravenclaw, and The Wayfarer’s Guide to Worldbuilding podcast host! He’s a husband and father of 2 humans and retains guardianship over 2 furry companions. And he’s someone who loves seeing others reach their full creative potential.
Non-submission emails can go to him here: kyle@mythosink.com
Most-Loved Podcasts: Witch Please, Critical Role, RadioLab, Alice Isn’t Dead, Hunt the Truth, We’re Alive!