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Episode 43 is out today, and in it we discuss the answers to four big questions about writers and money:
Listen to the episode to hear what we found from our initial research.
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This week’s episode is a short preview of some of the topics we’ll be exploring this season, all around a central theme — the intersection of money and art.
Want to join in the conversation? Get in touch with your comments and questions, as well as suggestions for future guests here.
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Today is a kind of back-to-school episode of the podcast, all about what we learned and what we did this summer. We talk good writing books, unexpected surprises, different journaling techniques – all the good stuff.
We also introduce our updated social media presence (including a new Facebook page!), so check us out.
We are also re-launching our TinyLetter newsletter, and we’ll be giving stuff away (not just content – actual stuff), so you should definitely sign up for that.
Full show notes (where you can listen) are here, or get Marginally on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever get your podcasts.
For the August episode, we interview KJ Dell’Antonia, the author of the very-soon-to-be-released book How To Be A Happier Parent. How To Be A Happier Parent will be released on August 21, 2018, so preorder at your local bookseller, or from Indiebound, Amazon or Barnes & Noble (or if you’re here after the pub date, you can get a copy at those links, too).
KJ is a parent, former New York Times reporter and editor of the NYT’s Motherlode blog and former contributing editor of the NYT’s Well Family section. Our listeners are probably most familiar with KJ as the co-host of the wonderful #AmWriting podcast.
Full show notes for this episode are here.
You can listen to the episode in iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever get your podcasts, or you can listen right here (and get the show notes, too).
This month, we talk to writer Jean Hannah Edelstein — it’s an inspiring chat for margin-writers for sure, covering the glories of being an underachiever at your day job, the fact that rigid schedules aren’t for everyone, and how the reality of writing is sometimes you need another job for the health insurance. We also talk about how she found the confidence to give herself permission to take herself seriously as a writer, and how 11 years later, is seeing a big payoff.
Listen wherever you get your podcasts, or on the show notes page.
We’re wrapping up our regular shows for a few months to take the summer off! We’ll still release a new interview each month, and we cannot wait to share those with you — they’re really delightful, and chock full of pep talks — but we won’t be doing any more weekly episodes until September.
We’re also ending the writing prompt series for now, but will keep thinking about other ways to share. Let us know if you have ideas!
Finally, we check in with how we are doing about our goals and what our summers are going to look like. We’d love to hear your plans for the summer, too.
You can see the complete show notes here, as well as listen to the episode. It’s also available wherever you get your podcasts (except Spotify. We’re not big enough for Spotify).
We interviewed Jessica Lahey, a teacher, writer and co-host from the wonderful #AmWriting podcast. Jess talked us through how keeping her day job keeps her writing and ideas fresh, the difficulties of writing when she’s on the road on speaking tours. She gives some good tips on how to balance speaking gigs and freelance work, should you be looking to go that direction. And she has great advice on being kind to yourself and living a writing life, and the importance of writing friendships.
You can find Jess at jessicalahey.com, on her publisher Harper Collins’s site for The Gift of Failure here, on Twitter, on Instagram and on Facebook.
You can find her and KJ Dell’Antonia at their podcast #AmWriting’s on iTunes or on AudioBoom.
Get the show notes and listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
This week, we are delighted to share our conversation with Caroline Donahue, a book coach and host of the wonderful Secret Library podcast and co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, I Wrote it Anyway. Caroline has so much great advice that we’ve decided she’s our new spiritual adviser. In the episode, she talks about her planning process, giving creative projects time to root and grow (and not worrying about being too faithful to them), outsmarting negative self-talk, and her incredible publishing project, I Wrote it Anyway. Produced with Dal Kular, the short story anthology features writers who felt blocks to writing, either internal or due to the outside world, schedule, lack of support, etc, and will be out this fall.
You can find Caroline at carolinedonahue.com, and on Twitter and Instagram @carodonahue.
Full show notes and the episode are available here.
In Episode 34, we share our responses to the April writing prompt — not an easy one for us! We also share some writing therapy our segment Everything is Terrible/What’s Working Now, and Olivia has a fun revision breakthrough. The episode concludes with the May writing prompt, so respondez sil vous plait. We’d love to read what you come up with. Get the show notes and listen here, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Meghan and I have both had a lot of work travel, and we have also been recording pep talks that we wanted to share with you. So, instead of a full-length episode, we have not just one but three pep talks to share:
Pep Talk #4 from our Episode 33 interview with poet and book publicist Abigail Welhouse, where she reminds us that people probably don’t care, but if they do, it’s such an amazing gift. And that writing is all about connection:
Pep Talk #5 from Meghan that should calm your nerves if you’re in one of those times where you’re not writing. Are you still “a writer”? Listen to this:
And Pep Talk #6 is a real-life conversation that Olivia and Meghan had, when Olivia wasn’t sure if she should continue with this novel, her first. Meghan had some great words of advice:
All our Pep Talks can be found here on our new Pep Talk page.
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