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Monday Jun 08, 2020
Monday Jun 08, 2020
In Episode 2 of QWERTY Writing Life, authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith challenge you to help a friend who might have lost that creative feeling. Now that you’ve kickstarted your personal creativity after our first episode, it’s time to pay it forward and kickstart others’ creativity.
For more about Maggie Stiefvater check out her website: http://maggiestiefvater.com.
Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at editorial@logosandmythospress.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal or ring the bell on the QWERTY YouTube channel. For more information about the show and the QWERTY Writing Life author resource book series, head over to https://www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life. Meet the authors at https://www.logosandmythospress.com/authors.
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Tuesday Jun 02, 2020
Welcome to Season 2 of QWERTY Writing Life! Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith get the chats rolling with the first in a three-part series on Kickstarting Creativity. Episode 1 focuses on Kickstarting Personal Creativity. Joy and Mea offer some practical examples from their own lives of how to light a fire on the creative torch.
Check out links to the music and movies mentioned during the episode:
Jason Isbell: https://www.jasonisbell.com
Drive-By Truckers: https://www.drivebytruckers.com
Mandy Moore: https://mandymoore.com
Lori McKenna: http://www.lorimckenna.com
Princess Bride Movie: http://princessbrideforever.com
Music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at editorial@logosandmythospress.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal or ring the bell on the QWERTY YouTube channel. For more information about the show and the QWERTY Writing Life author resource book series, head over to https://www.logosandmythospress.com/qwerty-writing-life. Meet the authors at https://www.logosandmythospress.com/authors.
Monday May 25, 2020
Monday May 25, 2020
In Episode 56 of QWERTY Writing Life, Mea and Joy bring you your top ten episodes of Season One. They share some of their most memorable ones and what made them stand out. Listen along and see if your favorite made the show.
Here are the episode links we mentioned:
- Episode 14: Interview with a Creative, Kim Howes Zabbia, artist
- Episode 29: Interview with a Creative, Brandon Odom, vocal performer
- Episode 37: Interview with a Creative, Joanna Penn, authorpreneur
- Episode 49: Interview with a Creative, Rachael Ritchey, author and graphic designer
- Episode 5: Blockades to Creating, Part 5: Theory of Fear
- Episode 20: Created to Create
- Episode 21: Allowing Faith in Your Art
- Episode 50: 5 Poetry Types You Might Not Know Exist
- Episode 48: Creative Women: Past, Present & Future
- Episode 22: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: Things we Wish We’d learned Earlier
- Episode 23: QWERTY Craft Tips
- Episode 41: Everyday Creativity
- Episode 51: Creative Workshop: Poetry
- Episode 13: Finding the Creative in Your Community
- Episode 38: Our Affirmations for the 2020s
- Episode 40: Creative Trophies
- Episode 10: Benefits of Short Fiction, Part 1
- Episode 11: Benefits of Short Fiction, Part 2
- Episode 12: Benefits of Short Fiction, Part 3
- Episode 44: Finding Your Creative Medium
- Episode 45: Finding a Love for Practice
- Episode 31: Creative Workshop: Perfecting Our Book Description
- Episode 35: Goal Planning with 2020 Vision, Part I: Template for Goal-Setting
- Episode 43: The Three Es of Art
- Episode 42: Cross Your Finish Line!
- Episode 39: One Engaging Story Leads to Another
- Email us your favorites and ideas! editorial@logosandmythospress.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 May 18, 2020
Monday May 18, 2020
In Episode 55 of QWERTY Writing Life, we’re taking a stroll down memory lane and sharing our biggest lessons from one year of podcasting. We had no idea how much this endeavor would teach us … or grow us.
Here are links to the episodes and other specifics we mentioned, plus our email address so you can follow through on our QWERTY Challenge and let us know what you’ve learned along with us.
Interview with Joanna Penn: https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-5qw9m-cf517d
Everyday Creativity: https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-yanuw-d33cc8
Nothing New Under the Sun … or Is There?: https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-nzn98-dbe443
Finders Keepers: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers
Email us your feedback and ideas! editorial@logosandmythospress.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 May 11, 2020
Monday May 11, 2020
We’ve lived under the notion that there’s nothing new under the sun. While that might be true in life, Joy and Mea turn that statement on its head as it relates to creativity. In Episode 54 of QWERTY Writing Life, they talk about how you are what takes a story or picture or painting and makes it unique … as only you can do.
Here are the links we mentioned, including two fabulous writing classes:
https://www.instagram.com/measmithwrites/
Holly Lisle’s How to Think Sideways Course
https://hollyswritingclasses.com/shop/how-to-think-sideways
Lindsay Eager’s 80/20 Course
https://www.lindsayeagarbooks.com/8020
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 May 04, 2020
Monday May 04, 2020
In Episode 53 of QWERTY Writing Life, Joy and Mea go back to the beginning and share their weekly QWERTY Report—the emails and chats that started it all and led to this podcast! They get personal and share the challenges of being creative in the face of COVID-19. Listen in and then email them with your own QWERTY Report!
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 Apr 27, 2020
Monday Apr 27, 2020
Join us for extra-special Episode 52 of QWERTY Writing Life where Joy gets to ask Mea all sorts of questions about her experiences as a poet. Mea’s answers will get your creative juices flowing, whether you’re a poet or not! She might even convince you to try your hand at the medium. As she says, poetry is “a concentrated dose of emotion.” Join us for all the inspiration you can handle as we round out our four weeks of poetry-related episodes in honor of National Poetry Month!
Check out the links we mentioned in the episode:
QWL, Episode 49: Interview with a Creative: Rachael Ritchey https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-4xs7j-d86ab3
QWL, Episode 50: 5 Poetry Types You Might Not Know Exist https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-ieqvb-d91a1a
QWL, Episode 51: Creative Workshop: Poetry https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-5afb4-d9d620
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46796/a-drunk-man-looks-at-the-thistle
http://www.msphilassoc.org/home.html
https://poets.org/poet/mary-oliver
Allison Chestnut: https://www.facebook.com/Hemingbear/
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/natasha-trethewey
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ron-rash
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/billy-collins
https://www.instagram.com/measmithwrites/
https://www.facebook.com/meathewriter/
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 Apr 20, 2020
Monday Apr 20, 2020
Mea’s got a challenge for Joy—and YOU!—in Episode 51 of QWERTY Writing Life. It’s all about poetry. This exercise will get you to think past the clichés and your known world. It will make you dig deeper into your thoughts, beliefs and feelings. Will you join in and see how incredible your results can be?
Check out the links we mentioned in this episode:
https://blogbattlers.wordpress.com
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month
https://www.instagram.com/rupikaur_/
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 Apr 13, 2020
Monday Apr 13, 2020
It’s already Episode 50 of QWERTY Writing Life! We’re celebrating this milestone with one of our favorite things—poetry! Mea is sharing five poetry types you might not know exist. Drop us a line and let us know what you think. Did you already know about all five or were some a surprise? Have you found a new favorite?
Check out links for all the people, places, things and events we mentioned in this episode:
https://poets.org/national-poetry-month
https://www.amazon.com/Coram-Deo-K-Gartman/dp/0997203374
https://www.amazon.com/Classic-Blackout-Games-Totally-Blacked/dp/1440532591
https://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/books/9781609380540/a-broken-thing
https://briefpoems.wordpress.com/tag/monostich/
https://briefpoems.wordpress.com/tag/american-haiku/
https://poets.org/text/brief-guide-slam-poetry
https://youtu.be/54ST8bwOVyc A Bird Made of Birds, Sarah Kay
https://youtu.be/0snNB1yS3IE If I Should Have a Daughter, Sarah Kay
https://youtu.be/0xuFnP5N2uA What Teachers Make, Taylor Mali
https://youtu.be/OonDPGwAyfQ The Impotence of Proofreading, Taylor Mali
https://www.bethannfennelly.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 Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
You get to meet one of our favorite people … and she brought a guest! We’re introducing you to Rachael Ritchey, author, designer and creative jack-of-all-trades in Episode 49 of QWERTY Writing Life. She’s chatting with us about Creative Balance, which we think fits perfectly with several of our recent topics. It also leads into a fantastic QWERTY Challenge! You’re sure to be just as inspired by Rachael as we are. Plus, Rachael brought her oldest daughter, Kassi, to join in the fun. Kassi helped us kick off our celebration of National Poetry Month by answering some behind-the-scenes questions about her poetry book, Coram Deo. Check out the links below for where you can get your copy!
Here are the links we mentioned in this episode:
Find Rachael on her website: https://rachaelritchey.com
Want to book her design services? We call dibs! https://rachaelritchey.com/book-design-by-rachael/
And, catch up on all her social media pages:
https://www.facebook.com/RachaelRitcheyAuthor
http://www.twitter.com/RachaelRitchey
https://www.pinterest.com/RachaelRitchey/
https://www.instagram.com/rachaelritchey/
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13513799.Rachael_Ritchey
https://www.deviantart.com/rachaelritchey
The amazing group of creative writers, Rachael mentioned can be found “blog-battling” here: https://blogbattlers.wordpress.com
The QWERTY “Created to Create” episode: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/created-to-create-1568658626/
Get your copy of Kassi’s book, Coram Deo: https://www.amazon.com/Coram-Deo-K-Gartman/dp/0997203374
Want to read the poem Kassi recommended? Here’s “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman: https://poets.org/poem/o-captain-my-captain?page=5
For more on Kassi’s other favorite poet, read more about Edgar Allan Poe: https://poets.org/poet/edgar-allan-poe
Learn more about National Poetry Month: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month
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.