Character Development: A Comedy Podcast Where Actors Perform My Cringiest Old Stories

At 16, I Wrote A Sci-Fi That Is Mostly About Giant Phallic Monsters

Character Development: A Comedy Podcast Where Actors Perform My Cringiest Old Stories

Show Notes

My teenage sci-fi horror story has three pages of lore, space elves who crouch-walk everywhere, and giants described in a deeply unfortunate way. Now I’m reading it out loud.

Voice actor Chris Harris-Beechy joins me from inside my TV to roast “Nocturne,” a handwritten story from 2007 that was never meant to be seen again.

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0:00 Welcome to Character Development

1:58 Meet Nocturn, written at 16

4:17 Three pages of lore

8:56 Space smurfs and the one woman

11:29 My handwriting looks like spiders

14:01 Chapter 1: Night watch

17:01 The double crouch

23:02 Don't put mystery metal in your ear

29:13 Chapter 2: Nobody talks

31:03 Ten feet of night vision

43:37 The mating grounds

46:38 What becoming a dad changed

52:30 Chapter 3: The giant

56:06 Edging the penis giant

1:01:58 Final verdict

1:05:36 What's coming next

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