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Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith asked themselves a tough question for this episode, “Are we willing to drop this project, even after years of blood, sweat and tears.” Their candid answer inspired reflection and epiphanies they had to share with fellow creatives.
For more about NaNoWriMo and the hosts’ book, head to these links:
National Novel Writing Month, AKA NaNoWriMo: https://nanowrimo.org/
Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about the QWERTYs, the show and their writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see their grinning faces, ring the bell on their YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Monday Oct 31, 2022
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith decide to break it down and hug their elephant project … one small part at a time!
What projects are overwhelming you with their size today? Perhaps you can take the practical tips in this episode to hug your own gentle giant!
For more about the books mentioned in the show, here are the links:
Mea’s book, Grief Like a River: https://storyswell.net/books
Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Monday Oct 17, 2022
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith continue work on their joint project, despite upheaval in their personal lives. Tune in to find out the next steps they’ve taken and decisions they’ve made; plus, you’ll hear a few tips for continuing a project when the wheels fall off!
If you’d like more information on previous episodes and other fun shareables mentioned in the show, here are the links:
Mea’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/measmithwrites/
Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers
The Relevancy of Creative Potential, Season 4, Episode 3: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/season-four-episode-three-creative-potential/
Creativity and Motherhood, QWERTY Writing Life, Season 2, Episode 49: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creativity-and-motherhood/
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Monday Oct 03, 2022
Author Mea Smith takes a solo journey in episode three as she dives into whether defining creative potential is helpful or harmful. The answer might surprise you!
Links mentioned in this episode:
Go & Tell Gals, How Do I Live Up To My Potential?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/40yjvz0Gj5pFnZtlUFo6TW?si=L5NG8HZNSiaiJw7yAkcIOw
QWERTY Writing Life, Created to Create
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/created-to-create-1568658626/
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Join authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith as they share a candid conversation on the next step in their chosen project, their creative journeys, and their personal lives.
The following episodes pair well with this one:
Choosing Your Next Project: Season 4, episode 1: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/choosing-your-next-project/
Blockades to Creating, Part 1: Season 1, Episode 1:
Blockades to Creating, Part 2: Season 1, Episode 2:
Blockades to Creating, Part 3: Season 1, Episode 3:
Blockades to Creating, Part 4: Season 1, Episode 4:
Blockades to Creating, Part 5: Season 1, Episode 5:
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Monday Sep 05, 2022
Season 4 of QWERTY Writing Life kicks off with a productive bang, as authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith share their approach to choosing the next QWERTY project.
Listen in as they recap their challenges, epiphanies, lessons learned and best tips for working together on choosing their next collaborative project.
If you’d like more information on episodes or products mentioned in the show, here are the links:
Fundamental Standards for Creatives, Season 3, Episode 17: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/fundamental-standards-for-creatives/
Alphasmart Neo 2—you have to buy this used, but here is a review we thought would be helpful: https://www.inputmag.com/reviews/the-alphasmart-neo-2-is-the-best-distraction-free-writing-tool-you-can-buy-right-now
FreeWrite: https://getfreewrite.com/
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith reflect on their third season of QWERTY Writing Life and share your favorite episodes and theirs. They also share what the winds of change are blowing in for QWERTY Writing Life. Tune in for a peek at what’s coming!
If you’d like to listen to the episodes we mentioned in the show for the first … or fifteenth! … time, here are the links:
QWERTY Workshop: Starting a Story Together: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/qwerty-workshop-starting-a-story-together/
Realistic Creatives: Who They Are: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/realistic-creatives-who-they-are/
Productivity and Efficiency for Creatives: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/productivity-and-efficiency-for-creatives/
Realistic Creatives: How to be One: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/realistic-creatives-how-to-be-one/
Creative Hacks: Efficiency for Craft: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-hacks-efficiency-for-craft/
Creative Hacks: Efficiency for Outlying Factors: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-hacks-efficiency-for-outlying-factors/
Creative Hacks: Efficiency for Time: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-hacks-efficiency-for-time/
Creative Trust: Trusting Yourself in Creative Endeavors
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-trust-trusting-yourself-in-creative-endeavors/
A Creative Approach to Beginnings: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/a-creative-approach-to-beginnings/
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith answer the question, What’s Saving Our Creative Lives? Their answers come coated in candor and practicality.
Send them a message with your answers as well, and they might just read them on a future episode!
To learn more about the episode’s inspiration and the tools mentioned, visit the following links:
The Next Right Thing Podcast: Emily P. Freeman: https://emilypfreeman.com/podcast/222/
Aqua Notes: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A3VJ7UK
Gold Bond Crepe Corrector Lotion: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08YQX3SKH
Creative Trinity: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/caring-for-your-creative-trinity/
Remarkable: https://remarkable.com/
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Creatives tend to spend much of their valuable time “Waiting on the Muse.” Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith debunk some misconceptions and encourage fellow Creatives to journey with the Muse in mind.
Listen to Season 3, Episode 20, Creative Trust: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-trust-trusting-yourself-in-creative-endeavors/
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
Creatives often discuss fear, but Fear of Success isn’t always up for discussion. The Fear of Success can cripple a Creative. It can render us incapable of producing creative works. It can trick us into not even trying. It can stifle our voice and convince us of every misbelief in the book that keeps us from reaching our full potential as creative entrepreneurs.
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith take a stand against this monster and share their experiences, along with a few tips that have helped them create beyond the fear.
If this topic resonates with you, these previous episodes offer more weapons for your arsenal against fear of all kinds:
Creative Trust: Trusting Yourself in Creative Endeavors, Season 3, Episode 20: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-trust-trusting-yourself-in-creative-endeavors/
Fundamental Standards for Creatives, Season 3, Episode 17: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/fundamental-standards-for-creatives/
Mea’s Theory of Fear: Season 1, Episode 5: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/blockades-to-creating-part-5/
Here is the link for another mention in the show:
Emily Freeman and The Next Right Thing Podcast: https://emilypfreeman.com/podcast/
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about us, the show and our writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see our grinning faces, ring the bell on our YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com.