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Monday May 24, 2021
Monday May 24, 2021
Join authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith for the final episode of Season Two of QWERTY Writing Life. They revisit your Top Ten favorite episodes and share their favorites as well. They let you know the highlights of their year—personally and QWERTY-ly—and close out with a tease for Season Three—yes, it’s coming!
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
Did you hear about an episode you missed or want to revisit? Find the links to listen below:
Episode 1: Kickstarting Personal Creativity https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/kickstarting-personal-creativity/
Episodes 4-6: Getting the Most from Creative Instruction, Parts 1-3 https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/getting-the-most-from-creative-instruction-part-1/
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/getting-the-most-from-creative-instruction-part-2/
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/getting-the-most-from-creative-instruction-part-iii/
Episode 7: Interview with Two Creatives’ Spouses: Tony Rancatore and Brent Smith
Episode 8: Take a Creative Page from Kids https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/take-a-creative-page-from-kids/
Episode 9: Learning from Creative Ideals https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/learning-from-creative-ideals/
Episode 13: Just Because: Lessons from Serenity
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/just-because-lessons-from-serenity/
Episode 14: If We Owned a Bookshop …
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/if-we-owned-a-bookshop-%e2%80%a6/
Episode 15: PREP for Success, Part 1 https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/prep-for-success-part-1/
Episode 18: Caring for Your Creative Trinity
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/caring-for-your-creative-trinity/
Episode 20: Interview with a Creative: Alexa Bigwarfe on Creating When Bad Things Happen https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/interview-with-a-creative-alexa-bigwarfe-on-creating-when-bad-things-happen/
Episodes 21-23: Creative Critique Partners
Defining Critique Partnerships: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-critique-partners-defining-critique-partnerships/
Evaluating Yourself: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-critique-partners-evaluating-yourself/
Choosing a Critique Partner: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-critique-partners-choosing-a-critique-partner/
Episode 27: Gratitude Amplifies Creativity
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/gratitude-amplifies-creativity/
Episode 34: Facing Creative Insecurity
https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/facing-creative-insecurity/
Episode 36: Interview with a Creative: Chloe Rouse on Finding the Story in Creative Projects https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/interview-with-a-creative-chloe-rouse-on-finding-the-story-in-creative-projects/
Episode 46: Interview with a Creative: Camille Myrick on Capturing NOW Through Poetry and Process
Enjoy these other writer resources mentioned in this episode:
Women in Publishing Summit: https://womeninpublishingsummit.com
Alexa Bigwarfe’s Writing Through Grief Challenge: http://sunshineafterstorm.us/free-challenge-writing-grief/
Maggie Stiefvater’s Writing Course: https://www.etsy.com/listing/806360184/writing-with-maggie-stiefvater-2020
Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
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 17, 2021
Monday May 17, 2021
Culinary Manager Tony Rancatore joins his wife, author Joy E. Rancatore, to discuss Culinary Creativity and how anyone can find ways to bring creativity to the kitchen. Listen in as he shares how the kitchen allows him a creative outlet and get some tips for how it could do the same for you.
Watch two of our favorite cooking shows:
Beat Bobby Flay, https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/beat-bobby-flay
Cajun Aces, https://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/cajun-aces
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
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 10, 2021
Monday May 10, 2021
Author Joy E. Rancatore reflects on some ways others’ creative legacies have impacted her life and expounds on how she actively seeks to promote creative legacy in her own life. She shares some ways legacy has played a role in her fiction and closes out the episode with a two-part challenge for reflection and action in regards to creative legacy.
Check out these important links mentioned in the episode:
Mea’s website where you can subscribe to her newsletter and be the first to know when her poetry book will be available: https://storyswell.net and her Instagram where you can watch her amazing progress on her book’s illustrations: https://www.instagram.com/storyswelljelly/
Subscribe to Joy’s semimonthly newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/s3k1w3
Read more about Joy’s Press and her grandparents whose creative legacy was a driving force in her entrepreneurship: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/about
For more information on Carolina’s Legacy Collection: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/carolinas-legacy-collection
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
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 03, 2021
Monday May 03, 2021
Authors Kelsey Atkins and Rachael Ritchey join Joy E. Rancatore to discuss a special topic: Creativity and Motherhood. With Mother’s Day approaching in the U.S., they examine how creativity and motherhood complement one another and how children can inspire creativity in adults while adults do the same for children. Stick around for three QWERTY Challenges to send you off on a mission.
Get to know Rachael better:
https://www.rachaelritchey.com
https://www.instagram.com/RachaelRitchey
https://www.twitter.com/RachaelRitchey
https://www.facebook.com/RachaelRitcheyAuthor
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13513799.Rachael_Ritchey
Get to know Kelsey better:
https://twitter.com/AtkinsAuthor
Check out Rachael’s book design business: https://rrbookdesign.com
Check out Kelsey’s new editing job on Critique Match: https://critiquematch.com
Looking for inspiration? Visit the Blog Battle site: https://bbprompt.com
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
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 26, 2021
Monday Apr 26, 2021
As National Poetry Month rolls to a close, author Joy E. Rancatore considers Poetry’s Creative Effects on her life and the lives of others. She dives into some of her earliest memories that made her fall in love with the medium and analyzes some ways poetry has influenced her author life. To round out the month’s poetic emphasis, Joy reads a few of her poems.
If you haven’t watched a QWERTY episode on YouTube, this would be a great one for a switch. Joy will be sharing graphics with her poetry. While you’re there, subscribe to the QWERTY Writing Life channel and never miss an episode!
Check out these important links mentioned in the episode:
National Poetry Month: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month
Mea’s website where you can subscribe to her newsletter and be the first to know when her poetry book, Grief Like a River, will be available: https://storyswell.net
Last episode about Mea’s poetry book: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/a-poetic-arc-the-birth-of-a-poetry-book/
Poetry 101: Masterclass article about 15 types of poetry: https://www.masterclass.com/articles/poetry-101-learn-about-poetry-different-types-of-poems-and-poetic-devices-with-examples
Poem in Your Pocket Day: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month/poem-your-pocket-day
Find information about Joy’s speaking and teaching topics for kids, teens and adults or to book her for your co-op, school, library or other group or event: https://joyerancatore.com/speaking/
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
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 19, 2021
Monday Apr 19, 2021
You may have heard of character arcs, but have you ever considered how poetry books can have arcs? Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith discuss this poetic arc through the birth of Mea’s forthcoming debut poetry book, Grief Like a River. They examine how the shift—or arc—in Mea’s personal life and her understanding of the grieving process lead to this overall theme and arc for that theme and how each choice she’s made along the way (the poems chosen, edits made, publication path followed and title accepted) has brought us this deep book that’s currently in final production.
Check out these important links mentioned in the episode:
Mea’s website where you can subscribe to her newsletter and be the first to know when her poetry book will be available: https://storyswell.net
“Finding Your Creative Medium” QWERTY episode: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/finding-your-creative-medium-1617049715/
“Creative Women: Past, Present and Future” QWERTY episode: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/creative-women-past-present-future/
National Poetry Month: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
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 12, 2021
Monday Apr 12, 2021
Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith welcome author, poet and YouTuber extraordinaire Camille Myrick on their spring Interview with a Creative episode. They discuss the themes in Camille’s poetry and how she juggles her creative projects, all while capturing the now through poetry and process. Camille closes out with a simple but powerful QWERTY Challenge for us all.
Get to know more about Camille:
https://www.instagram.com/camillemyrick/
http://youtube.com/camillemyrick
https://twitter.com/camille_myrick
https://www.facebook.com/camillemyrick/
Check out these fine resources, tools and books mentioned in the episode:
Remarkable Tablet: https://remarkable.com
Alphasmart Neo 2 Word Processor: https://www.amazon.com/Neo2-Alphasmart-Processor-Keyboard-Calculator/dp/B00T0ZG06O
A Flash of Words Anthology: http://www.scoutmediabooksmusic.com/a-flash-of-words-2
Ellen Hopkins: https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Ellen-Hopkins/20799681
Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi: https://www.goodreads.com/series/65730-shatter-me
National Poetry Month: https://poets.org/national-poetry-month
Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell, folk horror: https://www.littlebrown.com/contributor/daniel-woodrell/
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn: https://www.gillian-flynn.com/books/sharp-objects-movie-tie-in-tr/sharp-objects-mm
The Devil All the Time by Daniel Ray Pollock: http://donaldraypollock.net
The Familiar Dark by Amy Engel: https://amyengel.net
Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27161156-hillbilly-elegy
Hell in the Heartland by Jax Miller: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52218496-hell-in-the-heartland
The Current by Tim Johnston: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36387759-the-current
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith.
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 05, 2021
Monday Apr 05, 2021
How do you find your creative medium? In this special throwback episode of QWERTY Writing Life, we’re discussing how it took us a while to land on the one creative outlet that makes our hearts sing. We’ll send you away with a special challenge to help you find yours as well.
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
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 Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
In this throwback episode of QWERTY Writing Life, we highlight the inspiration many women have filled us with as we pay a tribute to the Creative Women of Our Past, Present and Future. They have each found creative ways to make our world a better place now and for the women of the future.
Here are all the amazing links we mentioned in this episode. Talk about INSPIRATION!
Article about books relating to the women behind the moon mission: https://milspousefest.com/7-books-tell-real-story-women-behind-moonshot/
Article about who really invented the cotton gin: http://historyexplorer.si.edu/sites/default/files/Content/Who%20Invented%20the%20Cotton%20Gin.pdf
Article about Margaret Knight: https://www.asme.org/topics-resources/content/margaret-knight
Lisa See’s Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: https://www.lisasee.com/books-new/snow-flower-and-the-secret-fan/
Lisa See’s The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane: https://www.lisasee.com/books-new/
Writer Moms Inc.: https://www.writermomsinc.com
Article about Sojourner Truth: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/sojourner-truth
Another article about Sojourner Truth: https://www.nps.gov/articles/sojourner-truth.htm
Kerri Washington interpreting the “Ain’t I a Woman” speech: https://youtu.be/Ry_i8w2rdQY
Article about Hedy Lamarr: https://www.thewonderwomenproject.org/pages/biography-of-hedy-lamarr
Gaman Video: https://youtu.be/qch1YY5oMWE
Amy Tan’s website: http://www.amytan.net
Michelle Keener’s website: https://www.michellekeener.com
Rachael Ritchey’s website: https://rachaelritchey.com
Kelsey Atkins’ website: http://findingthelightseries.com/author/kelseyatkins37/
Write Publish Sell website: http://writepublishsell.co
Maggie Stiefvater’s website: http://maggiestiefvater.com
Mo Willems Lunch Doodles: https://youtu.be/RmzjCPQv3y8
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
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 Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
Are you a lifelong learner? Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith proudly claim to be, and they’re giving you four benefits to learning for life in Episode 43 of QWERTY Writing Life. Find inspiration in some quotes they found and consider how you can learn more this week. As with every QWERTY episode, you will leave this podcast with a Challenge to kickstart or continue your own learning journey.
Stay in the know about episodes, our speaking engagements and what goes on behind the microphones with our monthly QWERTY Writing Life Newsletter. You’ll also get the chance to influence our show’s content and be the first to know about big events! Here’s the link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5
Check out a few friends we mentioned in the show:
Stacie Eirich, author and singer: http://writerstacieeirich.blogspot.com
The Book & the Bean: https://www.thebooknookstore.com
Rachael Ritchey, book designer and formatter extraordinaire: https://rachaelritchey.com/book-design-by-rachael/
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.