Steven James Scearce
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 16 Jun
Steven James Scearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think there were pure audio drama episodes originally, but then you would come to me and say, hey, could you write just one more for this area or this part of the show? And I would be like, yeah, I sure can. And then you had 13 narrator episodes, which are like short stories. Yeah. So you said earlier we were talking, you said you think this is probably 100,000 words in total.
Yeah, I bet. You know, I know a lot of the narrator episodes, some of them are short, 2,400, 2,500 words. A lot of them are in the 3,000 to 4,000 word range. Some of them go beyond 5,000 words. I know a lot of our audio drama episodes go beyond 5,000 words. You know, so, you know, not insignificant. So, you know, it's like writing a novel.
You and I have been writing individually for a decade or more. We were both thinking of being writers back in the early 90s. People will know how old we are now. We could have been in kindergarten.
We could have been in kindergarten. Um, but, uh, uh, I know you got back into writing back in, uh, 20, uh, 2009, something like that with unknown transmission. And then we started writing short stories for, um, uh, anthologies. And, uh, uh, I was in a magazine or two and, uh, um,
I wrote a novel that never got published. Same. Which is mentioned in one of the episodes. Cottonwood. Of Edge of the Forgotten Cottonwood. Yeah. Maybe there'll be an audio drama at some point. Who knows? And we'd always talked about writing on something together, but this is the first time that we'd really done it.
Right. Station 151, we are not the writers on that. You've written certainly some stuff on Station 151, but it's your brother's baby, really. It is. And so we wanted something that we could write ourselves. And I think we work well as a team and really try to make it be as collaborative as possible. And so, you know, the challenge was...
keeping all of these thoughts straight. Sure. Because I am very much a post-it note guy. Yeah. And you have seen me cover the walls of a spare room in the house with post-it notes trying to outline a season of something. And I tried to get you into Scrivener, but I know you're a word guy when it comes to writing.
And Scrivener wasn't so good for us for sharing collaboratively or writing collaboratively. But we did use Milanote for organizing our thoughts. And so the story is essentially built out in Milanote. It's an app that it's like Miro crossed with Evernote. If any of those things mean anything to any of you guys.
Um, in that, uh, you can put up all kinds of media and writing and words and sound files and all these other things, but we mostly use it as a big wall where we can put up post-it notes. Right. We can write up individual ideas. We can move them around. Each episode was its own post-it note. And sometimes we might have a second or third one that kind of went along with it to have some additional, uh...
thoughts with it um but it really helped us organize our thinking the plan uh the beats of the season because that's important how the season flows uh which episode comes in what order uh is this one a little bit more creepy maybe this one isn't um how do we pepper the
audio drama episodes into the narrator episodes. So you're never stuck listening to only one thing for, for too long. Um, how do we evolve the story? Uh, Milano did a, uh, served as a great tool for us to do that. Is this a paid plug? It should be. It should be. We should, uh, we should hit them up as a sponsorship. Um,
Uh, and speaking of sponsorships, here we go. Yep. We know, we know you all hate ads. We do run ads in the, uh, in the series at the beginning and the end. We don't run them in the, uh, uh, in the middle of shows. I know some shows do that. Um, but, uh, uh, you know, we don't want to break up the story. Um, uh, and you know, Hey, we all hate ads, right? We're people who hate ad blockers and, um,
But we have spent two plus years, a lot of time on these two plus years. And this is a side gig for us, right? We are not making any money at all during any of this stuff. We have invested a lot in our voice actors, as I mentioned before. I think it's always worth paying the talent what they're worth. I think we've been paying them quite well.
Worth every penny. But, you know, our bank accounts are lighter because of that. I'm looking at some equipment that we use for recording as part of this that we bought to produce this show. All this stuff is expensive.
Which means we sometimes have to run ads. And in fact, you know what? What if we do an ad break real quick as part of this Q&A? It's going to be short, guys, really. It's going to be one ad. That's it. One ad. One ad. Here we go. Listen, don't skip the ad. We're going to be right back. There'll be a quiz. Welcome to the realms of peril and glory. Explore the mechanically magical vistas of Vale.
What I really enjoyed, I thought it would be a bit of a chore checking in, but it was a real pleasure. We knew where everything was going because we had this large outline, and then I would write two, three, ten pages, whatever it is, check back in with you and say, this is where we're at. This is what's left. Do we want to change anything? And early on, I kept saying yes. Yeah.
This isn't working. Or we actually, there's probably very little that wasn't working. I think it was the stole episode that probably had the biggest changes in the end. Yeah. But you know. But the idea behind that episode changed because it was going to be the professor as another narrator telling a story. And by God, I did research into that. Yeah.
which we just, we canned most of it. We kept some of the tasty bits, but changed that episode entirely. You even had Oren Gray do a little bit of writing on that. Yeah. Did some research and writing and came up with some interesting, fun stuff that unfortunately, I think mostly fell onto the cutting room floor, but in the end for the best, right? It's, I think before it was going to be,
fun and interesting but a lot of word dump and i think by us introducing the selena character into it all i think it really helps to kind of break that up um agree you know so and it was it did get out of hand and our friend oran gray who is a fantastic writer who specializes in horror shows short stories yeah uh yeah look him up find his find his work find his work read up read him he's he's good
but I went to Orin and I said, can you help me shorten this and, and make more sense of it? And he did a fantastic job. So, uh, shout out to Orin Gray. It's funny about shortening. Cause I, I think one of the things I probably also had as a feedback was we actually want more out of it. I want these episodes to be a little longer, but, uh,
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