NEW EPISODE! S4E1: Bettering Yourself as a Writer

Welcome to Season Four! It’s going to be a good one. Today we talk about Maile’s obsession with Netflix’s fake fireplace (Birchwood edition), the books we’re reading, and what we’re going to do to better ourselves as writers in 2021. Also, Shawn shares the one thing that ALWAYS silences the voices of self-doubt.

Find Maile’s upcoming class at The Black Barn Online

The book Shawn threw in the lazy river: How Fiction Works by James Wood

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As always, there are a few ways to listen: click the play button in the image above, go to our webpage to hear this and all of our other episodes, or head on over to Apple podcasts or Spotify!

If you enjoy the podcast and would like to see it continue, and if you’d like exclusive access to Maile’s writing and other bonus material (including the one where we talk about our very favorite book of 2020), please join our Patreon community at the $5 / month level HERE.

And keep writing!

NEW EPISODE! S3E21: Creative Mindsets for the New Year

What creative mindsets are you taking with you into the New Year? Are they ways of thinking about creativity that serve you well or do they keep you mired in negative self-talk? Today, Shawn and Maile each share one mindset they’re taking with them into the New Year, and one mindset they’re planning on leaving in 2020. Continue reading “NEW EPISODE! S3E21: Creative Mindsets for the New Year”

S3E20 A Conversation with the Artist Freiman Stoltzfus

Today we get to speak with painter and artist Freiman Stoltzfus about growing up as an artist within the Amish community, the role is mother played in his life work, and the relationship between creativity and grief. Maile is especially fascinated by a term he uses, creative recovery, in describing how we can rediscover our creativity, even later in life.

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As always, there are a few ways to listen: click the play button in the image above, go to our webpage to hear this and all of our other episodes, or head on over to Apple podcasts or Spotify!

If you enjoy the podcast and would like to see it continue, and if you’d like exclusive access to Maile’s writing and other bonus material (including the one where we talk about our very favorite book of 2020), please join our Patreon community at the $5 / month level HERE.

And keep writing!

NEW EPISODE! S3E19 It’s Time to Make a Change

Shawn and Maile talk about the dynamic and life-giving force that change can be in your creative life. So, change it up! They also talk about the various ways their creative lives are changing in 2021–Maile is teaching a writing class! Shawn is writing a screen play! Join them as they talk about the good and tough of making changes to your creative life.

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As always, there are a few ways to listen: click the play button in the image above, go to our webpage to hear this and all of our other episodes, or head on over to Apple podcasts or Spotify!

If you enjoy the podcast and would like to see it continue, and if you’d like exclusive access to Maile’s writing and other bonus material (including the one where we talk about our very favorite book of 2020), please join our Patreon community at the $5 / month level HERE.

And keep writing!

NEW EPISODE! S3E18: Melanie Dale Tells Us to “Calm the H*ck Down”

Melanie Dale talks about writing horror, parenting books, becoming a zombie on The Walking Dead (no, really), and her journey into special needs parenting. We reflect on the first time we met (in a careening minivan) and how the creative life is always taking us in the directions we least expect.

Check out her new book here: Calm the H*ck Down.

As always, there are a few ways to listen: click the play button in the image above, go to our webpage to hear this and all of our other episodes, or head on over to Apple podcasts or Spotify!

If you enjoy the podcast and would like to see it continue, and if you’d like exclusive access to Maile’s writing and other bonus material (including the one where we talk about our very favorite book of 2020), please join our Patreon community at the $5 / month level HERE.

And keep writing!

NEW EPISODE! S3E17: Who is Your Future Creative Self?

Maile and Shawn talk about their own self-limiting beliefs and how those things have kept them from trying and creating new things. Do you have beliefs about yourself that are limiting? Are you measuring who you can become by your past?

And they talk about a new way forward, a creative path that allows for creativity, innovation, and, most importantly, hope.

As always, there are a few ways to listen: click the play button in the image above, go to our webpage to hear this and all of our other episodes, or head on over to Apple podcasts or Spotify!

If you enjoy the podcast and would like to see it continue, and if you’d like exclusive access to Maile’s writing and other bonus material (including the one where we talk about our very favorite book of 2020), please consider joining our Patreon community at the $5 / month level HERE.

And keep writing!