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Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

S05.41 Worldbuilding in Romance Novels

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9889 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

We’re talking about worldbuilding this week, and you’re getting a glimpse into Jen and Sarah’s everyday non-podcasting romance chatter. This one is for everyone — we talk about paranormal and historical romance, about what we think fantasy means when it comes to romance, and (most importantly) about how contemporary romance just might require the most worldbuilding of all of it? Separately, Eric points out the irony of us referring to “two people in a phone booth” in an episode where we talk about how kids today don’t know about cassette tapes.

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0:00.0

First day of Summer, Jen.

0:01.3

Oh my goodness.

0:02.7

I woke up at 330 everybody, so it's not great.

0:06.3

Ew.

0:06.7

A weird thing when you have insomnia is that even though you are exhausted,

0:10.6

sometimes you sleep worse, or like a big feeling. Sure. Like normal people are

0:16.1

like I'm exhausted I will sleep in tomorrow and I was like I'm exhausted I'll be up

0:21.1

all night. I don't like it I do like it though because you know what it doesn't matter summer and

0:26.7

eventually I will figure it out yeah you'll just collect sleep yeah it'll be amazing

0:31.6

I'm so jealous I I like summer. I like the idea of having... We should all listen.

0:37.0

Grown-up should get summer vacation too. Like, okay, so we don't get three months. that's fair, but like, in Europe, it's sort of a general rule that you can sort of wander off in August for as long as you like.

0:52.0

That seems very civilized. I mean, Europeans also have at

0:56.8

least a year's worth of maternity leave, so.

0:59.1

Every listen, America is kind of a garbage country, God everybody but but Donald Trump has been indicted again

1:04.8

He sure has an absolutely bonkers indictment did you see that indictment? Yeah. Did you see that that man was storing classified documents in his toilet?

1:14.0

Yes.

1:15.0

Not his toilet specifically, his water closet as the oldies say.

1:20.0

So that was a thing that happened.

1:22.0

I feel very strongly that I cannot process that at this time.

1:27.0

No. I mean that's fair. I just think it's bananas because if you had top secret documents in your house.

1:33.7

Yeah, no.

1:34.7

Would you keep them in the bathroom?

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