Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Fireside Fandomentals: Young Adult Story Pitches with Gretchen

Share This Post

In the this episode of Fireside Fandomentals, our special Fandomentals+ subscriber exclusive podcast, Gretchen starts off on a whole new segment: Young Adult Story Pitches, or YAS Pitches for short. With input from a random generator for genre, setting, protagonist role, and initial conflict, she crafts a young adult trilogy with pirates, non-binary sirens, culture clash, the lurking horror of an eldritch apocalypse, and a queer, deaf, female protagonist seeking to clear her name from the belief that she destroyed her family in a shipwreck!

Listen to the episode below, or click here to begin the mp3 download.

[spreaker type=player resource=”episode_id=16073488″ width=”100%” height=”200px” theme=”light” playlist=”false” playlist-continuous=”false” autoplay=”false” live-autoplay=”false” chapters-image=”true” episode-image-position=”right” hide-logo=”false” hide-likes=”false” hide-comments=”false” hide-sharing=”false” ]

Randomizers/Generators Used

Click here to check out The Fandomentalist, where Kylie, Julia, and Gretchen have other story improv sessions.

Author

  • Gretchen

    Bi/pan, they/them. Gretchen is a Managing Editor for the Fandomentals. An unabashed academic book nerd and aspiring sci/fi and fantasy author, they have about things like media, representation, and ethics in storytelling.

    View all posts

Latest Posts

Free League Continues The Story of Twilight: 2000 Amid The Ruins Of Warsaw In ‘Operation Reset’

Today, Free League Publishing announced that the next major campaign supplement...

Indie Author Summer: Fly To The Moon With Bram Stoker Award Winner Pedro Iniguez

Welcome back readers to the next episode of Indie...

Serving Up Disaster: How Mol Joule Is Cooking Up A Kitchen Nightmares TTRPG

You can play a TTRPG about...well..just about anything at...

Popular Japanese TTRPG ‘Sword World’ To Get First Ever English Language Release

Mugen Gaming has released the first official English-language materials...