![]() ![]() "And so, you just kind of start writing, even if it's not a week that you are really finding anything specific. You have to crank out something," Fink said. ![]() Because writer's block is just not possible when you don't have a choice. "There's nothing that puts the lie to the idea of writer's block quite like having regular deadlines. The schedule, Fink said, is a great motivating factor for him and Cranor. Like clockwork, new episodes of the series are released on the first and 15th day of each month. "I think that goes a long way to fostering this really lovely relationship we have with our fans, where they feel like they know me and we're friends, because they know every two weeks my voice will be on their computer, and I'll be talking just to them." "And I think that for a listener, for some kid sitting at home or wherever they're at listening to the show, it makes them feel like they're included in this community, because Cecil, I, am talking just to them. We do a lot of direct address, where Cecil will talk to the listeners and speak to them directly, breaking the news format genre. "It's this voice that is very present in your ear, and you can't help but imagine that that narrator is talking only to you. "Listening to a podcast, I think, is very intimate," Baldwin said of the series' appeal. Listeners are guided through Night Vale's world of secret police, an all-powerful glowing cloud, a mysterious man in a tan jacket, and a vague, yet menacing, government agency by the voice of Night Vale Community Radio, Cecil Gershwin Palmer, voiced by actor Cecil Baldwin. "And so, I think people relate to this idea of just persevering through the terrifying nature of life and just trying to find a way to live a day-to-day life in that." "And, I think that real life is a dangerous and scary place, and within it, we have to find community and get on with our daily lives. "Night Vale is a very dangerous and scary place, but within that, people have to find a community and have to get on with their daily lives," Fink said. ![]() But, upon closer inspection, "Night Vale" is revealed as a far more unique, strange and wonderful creation resembling, according to Fink, everyday life. Taking the form of a community radio newscast, "Welcome to Night Vale" feels, at first, like "A Prairie Home Companion" set in an arid version of the author Stephen King's community of Castle Rock. Monthly downloads, Fink said, are in the millions. Written by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, the series has plenty to celebrate: It's in the top 10 podcasts on iTunes, and as of press time, was the No. "Welcome to Night Vale," a production of New York City-based Commonplace Books, marked its second anniversary earlier this month with a pair of packed shows at Town Hall in Manhattan. For the last two years, millions of podcast listeners have traveled, twice a month, to a dry desert community where anything strange, creepy or scary is not only possible but commonplace. ![]()
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