New Feature: Poetry and Short Stories

Well, in my quest to customize and tweak the format of Struck Lightning, I've decided to host a poetry and short story segment. This is a great way to get some new ears on your work! Just go on ahead and submit those poems and shorts to strucklightning@gmx.com. I'll take a couple and read them on the next episode!

Hope to hear from you soon; enjoy the storm!

-Josh Boykin, Host of Struck Lightning

The Storm's Begun

Hi all, and welcome to the Struck Lightning blog. This site's dedicated to information about the Struck Lightning podcast and its developer/host, Josh Boykin (me)! Wow, what a debut...all this new technology I've been trying to get familiar with to promote this thing is complicated. But you know, it's worthwhile...and I'm learning a lot, so that's pretty awesome.

So, some of you might be wondering...what's Struck Lightning's purpose (other than to inflate the ego of its host)? Well, I created Struck Lightning for multiple purposes...for one, I've always wanted my own radio show. So I guess this is a great way for me to do that, work on my radio hosting voice... But I've also wanted an outlet to distribute advice through, and I've always wanted to create a method for writers to get more writing experience...hence, the subject matter for Struck Lightning!

For those who haven't listenened yet, there are a few segments: Bit O' News, Bit O' Crap (irrelevant news), iPod Shuffle Experience (where I play a random song from my iTunes), Daisy Chain Story Time (listener submitted serial story, like a daisy chain of authorship!), and Ask Josh (my chance to be Ann Landers (I'm not a doctor or "qualified", so don't sue me. I'm just trying to help!). I'm really hoping that this turns out to be an interesting show!

Anyway, I hope you take the time to listen to the pilot and let me know your thoughts/suggestions. The link for the first ep of the podcast is here. Twitter-ers out there, the Twitter page is linked here. And the email address is strucklightning@gmx.com; let me know what you think!

Thanks for your time, everyone! Enjoy the storm!

-Josh