Episodes
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Goal Planning with 2020 Vision, Part I: Template for Goal-Setting
Monday Dec 30, 2019
Monday Dec 30, 2019
This isn't your grandma’s annual resolution show! In Episode 35 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast, we’re talking goals with a fantastical twist. This week we’re giving you a template of sorts for goal-setting. Next week, you’ll get to see what this looks like for our own 2020 goals and how we plan to achieve them.
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we’re sending you off with three steps toward a productive new year!
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 Dec 23, 2019
Combating Creative Kryptonite: When Overwhelm Strikes
Monday Dec 23, 2019
Monday Dec 23, 2019
We’ve all experienced it. It’s the battle against the hourglass; the grasping at more time in a day; the neverending list of unchecked boxes. It’s not burnout. We could certainly use the word exhaustion. We’ve decided to call it, “Creative Kryptonite.” Find out what we’re talking about and learn how we defend against ours in Episode 34 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast.
Get to know another creative mentioned in Mea’s creative week! Visit Rachael Floyd’s website here: http://sowritesrachael.com/.
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we’d love to hear how you handle your own Creative Kryptonite. If you don’t have coping methods yet, try ours and then let us know what works for you!
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 Dec 16, 2019
Creativity During the Holidays
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Monday Dec 16, 2019
Are you planning some special creativity time this holiday season? Are you making a list and checking it twice of all the parties and family obligations that sometimes feel less than nice? With a little creative planning, you may just be able to incorporate creativity into your holiday schedule—without adding unnecessary stress or flinging fruitcakes at your family’s face. We’ll share our tips with you in Episode 33 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast.
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we’ll guide you to apply a little bit of planning in order to achieve more positive creativity.
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 Dec 09, 2019
FINDING FINDERS KEEPERS
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Monday Dec 09, 2019
Today, we celebrate! As our co-written book baby flies out into the world, we’re taking a sentimental glance back before we turn our full attention to the future of Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find & Keep Your Writing Critique Partner and QWERTY Writing Life. Listen in to Episode 32 as we share why and how the book came to be and where we see it taking all of us—including YOU!—in the future.
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we encourage you to take a page from our playbook and find multiple ways to utilize your work. Check out Rachael Ritchey’s book design page and the site for the 2020 Women in Publishing Summit, plus say hi to our three beta readers and see what they write in the links below:
https://rachaelritchey.com/book-design-by-rachael/
https://womeninpublishingsummit.com
https://candicemarleyconner.com
http://findingthelightseries.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 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 Dec 02, 2019
Creative Workshop: Perfecting Our Book Description
Monday Dec 02, 2019
Monday Dec 02, 2019
We’ve struggled through writing two book blurbs so far, but we’ve learned a great deal about them, about ourselves and about our books. Find out all the details and perhaps get some tips to help you in Episode 31 of the QWERTY Writing Life Podcast. Check out these links for more info on what we shared during the workshop:
Blurb’s base template for writing a nonfiction book description:
https://www.blurb.com/blog/how-to-write-a-blurb-for-your-non-fiction-book/
My 4-step Process for Writing a Nonfiction Book Blurb That Sells, from Rainmaker Press:
ALLi Podcast: Book Blurbs, Book Hooks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw2-rZj4YXc
How to Write a Good Book Description, IngramSpark
https://www.ingramspark.com/blog/how-to-write-a-good-book-description
Back Book Cover Blurb, Kindlepreneur
https://kindlepreneur.com/back-book-cover-blurb/
Rachael Ritchey’s website, cover designer extraordinaire
https://rachaelritchey.com/book-design-by-rachael/
Kim Howes Zabbia, Just Paint, It Ain’t
https://www.kimhoweszabbia.com/books-for-sale
In this week’s QWERTY Challenge, we will send you off with the task of condensing your current body of work, writing or otherwise, into a few lines. We would love for you to share them with us!
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.