TW 7: Talking Wicked with Christa Carmen
The Wicked Library
9th Story Studios LLC
4.6 • 684 Ratings
🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We talk about how Christa came to writing short stories, why horror doesn't scare her, writing what you know, and of course her recent episode on The Wicked Library, in which we brought her story "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" to life.
Host / Producer / Showrunner: Daniel Foytik
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| 0:00.0 | 9th Story Studios, giving story a voice. |
| 0:12.2 | This podcast is part of the Dark Myths Collective. |
| 0:16.4 | Visit Dark Myths.org to discover more shows like this one. |
| 0:21.5 | The Darkness Awaits. |
| 0:28.3 | You're listening to The Wicked Library. |
| 0:34.0 | Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. |
| 0:38.3 | How many choices do you make in a day? |
| 0:51.3 | In a year? |
| 0:53.3 | In a lifetime. How many year, in a lifetime. |
| 0:55.0 | How many really matter in the end? |
| 0:59.0 | Do you agonize over the small ones and avoid the important ones? |
| 1:04.0 | Here on my lift, in this place where all things are possible, your choice matters. Your choices require sacrifice. |
| 1:14.9 | Will you make the right one? Choose to listen to the lift in iTunes, tune in Stitcher, |
| 1:21.8 | and now iHeart Radio. Today my guest is Krista Carmen, and we just recently did your story. |
| 1:57.0 | The one thing that I really enjoyed about this, we don't get to do a lot of epistolary tales. |
| 2:02.2 | And a lot of times when we've done them in the past, they're in the form of letters. So this one |
| 2:06.7 | was in the form of an email exchange. So tell me, for three cheers for sweet revenge, what gave |
| 2:13.0 | you the idea to kind of go the route of an email exchange of an email exchange rather than, you know, just a |
| 2:18.7 | regular narrative. |
| 2:19.8 | Yeah. |
| 2:20.3 | So it's actually kind of a, a goofy little like real life thing that sort of gave me. |
| 2:27.2 | I, I, I have a friend that we started at my day job company together working in a pharmaceutical |
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