Episodes
Monday Oct 28, 2019
Tips for Your Best NaNoWriMo
Monday Oct 28, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019
November is right around the corner and, for writers, November is synonymous with NaNoWriMo! We decided to share a little about this exciting month of goal-setting and habit-building and to give our best tips to anyone participating. Welcome to Episode 26 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast! Check out the links we mentioned during the show and a couple of posts by Joy with more tips and thoughts on the NaNo process:
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/healthy-writer/
http://www.joyerancatore.com/2018/07/05/what-is-camp-nano/
http://www.joyerancatore.com/2018/08/02/what-happens-when-you-dont-win-camp-nano/
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we’ve got a call to action for NaNo participants and for non-participants.
Please share our podcast with your friends! We’d love for them to be our new friends, too! Questions? Comments? You know what to do! Continue this week’s chat with us via email at editorial [at] logosandmythospress [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Can’t get enough of Mea? Head over to her online home at www.measmith.com. Want to know more about Joy? Check out her site, www.joyerancatore.com.
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Tackling Creative Cons
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Living a creative life can be amazing, but it’s not without its cons. In Episode 25 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast, Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith share how those negatives look in their own lives and chat about ways to handle them. They also reveal some HUGE NEWS!! They are honored to be part of the 2020 Women in Publishing Summit where they will speak with Alexa Bigwarfe on the topic “How to Find and Keep a Critique Partner: Dream BIG Together.” Here’s the link for more info about this incredible online Summit: https://womeninpublishingsummit.com.
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we’re giving you active steps to tackle the creative cons in your life. Let us know how it goes! Drop us a line at editorial [at] logosandmythospress [dot] com
Please share our podcast with your friends! We’d love for them to be our new friends, too! Questions? Comments? You know what to do! Continue this week’s chat with us via email. For more information about us, the show and our author resource book series, head over to www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Can’t get enough of Mea? Head over to her online home at www.measmith.com. Want to know more about Joy? Check out her site, www.joyerancatore.com.
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Healing from Creative Downfalls
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Welcome to Episode 24 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast with Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith! We’re getting real in this episode with some downfalls creatives might face and thoughts on how to heal the damage they can do.
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we’re sending you virtual hugs and asking you to think through your own creative downfalls and identify how to heal the wounds in your own lives even as you prepare to defend yourself against future ones.
Please share our podcast with your new friends! We’d love for them to be our new friends, too! Questions? Comments? You know what to do! Continue this week’s chat with us via email at editorial [at] logosandmythospress [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Can’t get enough of Mea? Head over to her online home at www.measmith.com. Want to know more about Joy? Check out her site, www.joyerancatore.com.
Monday Oct 07, 2019
QWERTY Craft Tips
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Monday Oct 07, 2019
Welcome to Episode 23 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast with Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith! Thanks for joining us for another extra special episode recorded at our alma mater, William Carey University. If you missed Episode 22, that’s okay! These two don’t build on each other. We’re answering different questions for the students we had the honor of speaking to. This week we’re sharing our very best writing craft tips and sharing some favorite resources. Here are links to the ones we mention!
Rachael Stephen: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXjda70KpggxCpmrLpxdHuw
Holly Lisle’s Writing Classes: https://hollyswritingclasses.com
Rachael Herron’s “How Do You Write?” Podcast: https://rachaelherron.com/category/podcast/
Ann Patchett: http://www.annpatchett.com
Nanowrimo: https://www.nanowrimo.org
Recommended Podcasts:
- QWERTY Writing Life: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life
- The Creative Penn: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/podcasts/
- ALLi: https://allianceindependentauthors.org/?affid=7767 (Joy’s affiliate link, which just means she gets a small percentage of your membership fee … thank you!)
- IBPA: https://www.ibpa-online.org
- Alone in a Room with Invisible People: https://www.alonewithinvisiblepeople.com
- Write-Minded: https://podcast.shewrites.com
- How Do You Write? https://rachaelherron.com/category/podcast/
- The Career Author: https://thecareerauthor.com/podcast/
- Mom Writes: https://www.authoraccelerator.com/momwrites
- Writer Mom Life: http://writermomlife.com
- Magic Lessons: https://www.elizabethgilbert.com/magic-lessons/
- The Creative Shift: https://wegrowmedia.com/the-creative-shift-podcast/
- Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day: https://player.fm/series/1319408
- Quick and Dirty Tips with Grammar Girl: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy Marketing Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkgP6WIFsg3vWga2XVs619w
- TED Talks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUUnT6oDeKwE6v1NGQxug
- Somewhat Creative (for the music-minded; another fellow WC alumnus!): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/somewhat-creative-podcast/id1204050274
Please share our podcast with your new friends! We’d love for them to be our new friends, too! Questions? Comments? You know what to do! Continue this week’s chat with us via email at editorial [at] logosandmythospress [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Can’t get enough of Mea? Head over to her online home at www.measmith.com. Want to know more about Joy? Check out her site, www.joyerancatore.com.
Monday Sep 30, 2019
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: Things We Wish We'd Learned Earlier
Monday Sep 30, 2019
Monday Sep 30, 2019
Welcome to Episode 22 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast with Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith! Thanks for joining us for an extra-special episode. We recorded this one side-by-side at our alma mater, William Carey University, where we had the honor of speaking as guest lecturers to a creative nonfiction class. We managed to get two podcast episodes out of it, so click on through to hear the first part all about the things we wish we’d learned or done earlier—our Coulda, Woulda, Shouldas.
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we’re urging the students and YOU to spend some time visualizing your life and thinking through how you can achieve what you really want to in your lifetime.
Please share our podcast with your new friends! We’d love for them to be our new friends, too! Questions? Comments? You know what to do! Continue this week’s chat with us via email at editorial [at] logosandmythospress [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Can’t get enough of Mea? Head over to her online home at www.measmith.com. Want to know more about Joy? Check out her site, www.joyerancatore.com.