{"id":8326,"date":"2014-11-11T14:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T18:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8326"},"modified":"2014-12-17T10:59:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T14:59:52","slug":"podcast-the-way-of-pen-and-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-way-of-pen-and-sword","title":{"rendered":"Podcast &#8211; The Way of Pen and Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Virtual Memories Show:<br \/>\nMaria Alexander &#8211;<br \/>\nThe Way of Pen and Sword<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The samurai believed that to be a complete person, you had to study the sword, but you also had to study the pen. They called it Bun Bu Ryo Do, the way of pen and sword. You were complete if you were a writer and a warrior, and I&#8217;ve really embraced that in my life.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2420\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8326-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8326-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariaalexander.net\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Alexander<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mariaalexander.net\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8329\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-way-of-pen-and-sword\/mrwickercoverweb-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MrWickerCoverWeb1.jpg?fit=408%2C666\" data-orig-size=\"408,666\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MrWickerCoverWeb\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MrWickerCoverWeb1.jpg?fit=379%2C620\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8329\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MrWickerCoverWeb1.jpg?resize=153%2C250\" alt=\"MrWickerCoverWeb\" width=\"153\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MrWickerCoverWeb1.jpg?resize=269%2C440 269w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MrWickerCoverWeb1.jpg?resize=379%2C620 379w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-content\/uploads\/MrWickerCoverWeb1.jpg?w=408 408w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 153px) 100vw, 153px\" \/><\/a> joins the Virtual Memories Show to talk about her debut novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1935738666\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1935738666&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=IGJTVQEN3RV3EXB6\">Mr. Wicker<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1935738666\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>, her intern\/protege relationships with Clive Barker and Neil Gaiman, and the art of shinkendo swordplay and what George R.R. Martin gets wrong about swords. Also, we learn what happens when Lovecraftian pastiche goes wrong, how Maria realized that even geniuses have to write drafts, how her parents took syncretism to new heights, how <em>Mr. Wicker <\/em>made its way from short story to screenplay to first novel, how she deals with severe carpal tunnel syndrome, and what her love of swords has taught her about editing her work! <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;My mother believed everything she saw on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/In_Search_of..._(TV_series)\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;In Search Of . . .&#8217;<\/a>, so our household was very imaginative.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Ms. Wicker! by Gil Roth, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chimeraobscura\/15058507953\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8662\/15058507953_a8da07557b_z.jpg?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ms. Wicker!\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2421\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8326-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\">http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?powerpress_pinw=8326-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4itPQhel9GzH3WK2iXr4Zw\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Interviews\/The-Virtual-Memories-Show-p1091071\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/feed\/podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/subscribe-to-podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/virtualmemories\/Season_4_Episode_43_-_The_Way_of_Pen_and_Sword.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-archive\" target=\"_blank\">the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! Related conversations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-readercon-2013-monsters-memories-and-mythmaking\" target=\"_blank\">Theodora Goss, Valya Lupescu, Nancy Hightower<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-readercon-2013-fairies-and-zombies\" target=\"_blank\">John Crowley, Scott Edelman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-the-correction-of-taste\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Dirda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-they-call-me-mister-hyde\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Levine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/podcast-you-cant-get-there-from-here\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Borders<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Follow <em>The Virtual Memories Show<\/em> on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-virtual-memories-show\/id531173075\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/vmspod\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VirtualMemoriesShow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemoriespodcast.tumblr.com\" target=\"_blank\">Tumblr<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/virtualmemories.libsyn.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>About our Guest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mariaalexander.net\" target=\"_blank\">Maria Alexander<\/a> writes pretty much every damned thing and gets paid to do it. She\u2019s a produced screenwriter and playwright, published games writer, virtual world designer, award-winning copywriter, interactive theatre designer, prolific fiction writer, snarkiologist and poet. Her stories have appeared in publications such as Chiaroscuro Magazine, Gothic.net and Paradox, as well as in acclaimed anthologies alongside legends such as David Morrell and Heather Graham. Her second poetry collection \u2013 At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned and the Absinthe-Minded \u2013 was nominated for the 2011 Bram Stoker Award. And she was a winner of the 2004 AOL Time-Warner \u201cTime to Rhyme\u201d poetry contest. When she\u2019s not wielding a katana at her local shinkendo dojo, she\u2019s being outrageously spooky or writing Doctor Who filk. She lives in Los Angeles with two ungrateful cats, a pervasive sense of doom, and a purse called Trog. Her new novel is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1935738666\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1935738666&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=IGJTVQEN3RV3EXB6\">Mr. Wicker<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1935738666\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>\u00a0(Raw Dog Screaming Press).<\/p>\n<p><em>Credits: This episode\u2019s music is <\/em>Ironside (Excerpt), Battle Without Honor or Humanity, The Chase, and Woo Hoo<em>\u00a0from the Kill Bill soundtrack. The conversation was recorded at Ms. Alexander&#8217;s home on a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002SQJLA4\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002SQJLA4&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=64RDM7RI2SABXGPL\">Blue enCORE 200 microphones<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002SQJLA4\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> feeding into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00KCXMBES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00KCXMBES&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing&amp;linkId=DRHR6463DEQ4TO3N\">Zoom H5<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B00KCXMBES\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> digital recorder. The intro and outro were recorded on a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B002VA464S\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B002VA464S&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=voyantpublishing\">Blue Yeti USB Microphone<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=voyantpublishing&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B002VA464S\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/>. Processing was done in Audacity and Garage Band. Photo of Ms. Alexander by me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virtual Memories Show: Maria Alexander &#8211; The Way of Pen and Sword &#8220;The samurai believed that to be a complete person, you had to study the sword, but you also had to study the pen. They called it Bun Bu Ryo Do, the way of pen and sword. 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