006 - Writing When Writing is your Day Job
In this loose, long-awaited, and longer-than-usual episode, Stephanie and Trevor commiserate about a season of sickness, debrief on Steph’s NaNoWriMo win and the final chapter of The Pantser who Planned, discuss Steph’s newest release, and then dig in on what it’s like to write creatively when writing is also your day job. In between discussions of developing a sense of audience and voice, they indulge in asides about author socials, how wardrobe helps you find your audience at events, new Doctor Who, and bizarrely, Tony Curran’s oeuvre. They do the slowest-ever lightning round of pros and cons of writing when writing is your day job, touching on planning, ego death, and busted hands, among other things. Also, Stephanie administers a test on Bishop.
"Spacial Harvest" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Stephanie’s Reccomendation
“I have discovered since 2020… that I love seeing how the pandemic changed making art. Haunthology is a graphic novel in which you can clearly see the pandemic influence. Some of the stories are a few pages long, some just panels long… I particularly enjoyed this graphic novel.”
Trevor’s Recommendation
Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake
“I’ve been a fan of Murakami’s work for a long time. He has a short story collection called After the Quake… about how people reorder their lives after experiencing a collective trauma. With politics and geopolitics being the way they are right now, I feel like in a lot of ways we’re feeling acute aftereffects of COVID-19… exploring the ways in which people can, in imperfect and often beautiful ways, respond to a collective trauma, was healing. Maybe we still have the capacity to connect with people and grow beyond.”