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Monday Oct 18, 2021
Monday Oct 18, 2021
To close out this three-part series on Realistic Creatives, authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith recap what they’ve learned and shared so far in order to answer one final practical question: “How can we alter our mindset to be a Realistic Creative … without wrecking our Dreamer status?”
Listen in to a previous episode mentioned in this show:
Season 1, Episode 35, Goal Planning with 2020 Vision, Part 1
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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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 04, 2021
Monday Oct 04, 2021
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith continue a three-part series on Realistic Creatives. In this second episode, they identify a few characteristics of who Realistic Creatives are not.
Check out the links we mentioned in the show:
Writing with Maggie Stiefvater Course
Season 2, Episode 4: Getting the Most from Creative Instruction, Part 1
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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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 20, 2021
Monday Sep 20, 2021
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith begin a three-part series on Realistic Creatives. In this episode, they set a foundation for the topic and identify a few characteristics of who Realistic Creatives are.
Check out these previous episodes that inspired the Realistic Creatives series:
Season 2, Episode 38: Creative Entrepreneurship: Little Steps Every Day
Season 3, Episode 2: Productivity & Efficiency for Creatives
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
Continue this week’s chat via email to 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.
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Tuesday Sep 07, 2021
Creatives talk a lot about platform and branding. We create things, but we do that for others. If we don’t have a public presence, how will those “others” find our work?
Platform and branding takes time, though, so—you guessed it—authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith are hacking this too! Listen in on a few Creative Hacks to improve efficiency for platform and branding in this final in a five-part series.
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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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 Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Creative business owners have a unique challenge to use both right and left sides of the brain to create and then to get the product out into the world. Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith share a few Creative Hacks to improve efficiency for business.
When you find ways to streamline tasks or utilize templates, you might find yourself with a little more time and/or mental capacity for the creative side we all prefer.
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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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 Aug 02, 2021
Monday Aug 02, 2021
When it comes to their craft, authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith love to learn. They may not be able to be students in the traditional sense, but they can wrangle a few creative hacks in order to keep learning while improving their efficiency for craft.
In this episode of QWERTY Writing Life, Joy and Mea share some hacks to deepen craft knowledge in an efficient manner. While their examples are specific to their own writing craft lives, these tips can be easily applied to other artistic mediums.
Want to check out our podcast series on Creative Critique Partners? This episode will get you started: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-critique-partners-defining-critique-partnerships/
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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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 Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith take a bite out of time with another installment in their Creative Hacks series. Hear a few tips on finding Efficiency for Time. Joy and Mea share hacks that have worked for them and tips they’ve seen work for others.
Check out the links mentioned in the episode:
Tutorials that helped Mea cut her hair:
Learn-Do-Become: https://learndobecome.com
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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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 Jul 05, 2021
Monday Jul 05, 2021
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith took a deep look at what productivity and efficiency really are in the last episode. That led them to discuss Outlying Factors—those ever-changing, often evolving or unpredictable forces that somehow affect efficiency and therefore productivity.
In this first in a series on Creative Hacks, Joy and Mea tackle ways to improve efficiency where Outlying Factors are concerned. Listen in for a few overall tips, as well as some specific examples from the co-hosts’ creative lives.
Check out the links mentioned in the episode:
https://88cupsoftea.com/maggie-stiefvater/
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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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 Jun 14, 2021
Monday Jun 14, 2021
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith set out on a mission to understand productivity and efficiency and how to better harness each for their creative endeavors. What they discovered was that they disagreed with the common use of productivity vs. efficiency and found the conjunction “and” to be a much nicer—and more accurate—joiner.
In true QWERTY style, Joy and Mea set up some QWERTY definitions for each of these words and took it a step further to identify a third category that greatly affects efficiency—and therefore, productivity. They call these “outlying factors” and examine what they are and how they can alter output for creatives.
This episode sets up the foundation for a following series on Efficiency Hacks for Creatives, which will begin with an episode full of hacks specific to these outlying factors.
Check out the links that either influenced or were mentioned in the episode:
Ben Mulholland, “Productivity vs. Efficiency”: https://www.process.st/productivity-vs-efficiency/
James Clear, “The Productivity Guide”: https://jamesclear.com/productivity
Tony Robbins’ Team, “What Is Productivity?”: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/productivity-performance/what-is-productivity-really/
Jeff Goins, “5 Productivity Hacks for Creative Writers”: https://thewritepractice.com/productivity-hacks/
Joanna Penn, “Productivity for Writers”: https://www.thecreativepenn.com/productivewriter/
QWERTY Writing Life Podcast, Season 3, Episode 1, “Maximizing Creative Time”: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/maximizing-creative-time/
QWERTY Writing Life Podcast, Season 2, Episode 18, “Caring for Your Creative Trinity”: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/caring-for-your-creative-trinity/
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
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 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
Welcome to Season Three of QWERTY Writing Life!
Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith are pumped to be back for a new season, and they’ve made several changes and additions to the QWERTY name. Listen in for the scoop, plus they’ve got some tips for you to Maximize Your Creative Time!
They have found a way to do more in the same amount of time by simply reallocating and maximizing the time they already had. Hear their tips and share your own via any of the new QWERTY links below!
Our new email address: qwertywritinglife@gmail.com
Our new Instagram account: https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/
Our new website: https://qwertywritinglife.com
If you want to stay in the know and help influence future episodes, subscribe to the monthly QWERTY Writing Life newsletter:
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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.