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In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I announce plans to revive a show from the earliest days of podcast, Five Minute Memoir.
Join me as I walk the dog in the neighborhood and reveal the history of the original Five Minute Memoir, a podcast in which listeners share brief true stories, anecdotes, and formative moments.
“It’s our lives, five minutes at a time.”
I also explain how and why I’m bringing Five Minute Memoir back, and how you can be part of it.
Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
00:00 – Introduction
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In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I share my thoughts after re-evaluating my position on generative artificial intelligence as it pertains to the creative life.
Mild spoiler alert: no, I’m still not going to use AI in my own creative endeavors.
Listen (or watch!) to learn how my opinions have changed in the three years since I last tackled the topic. It might give you something to think about. Or maybe it’ll just piss you off.
This episode was recorded on April 17, 2026.
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Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
00:00 – Introduction
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Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!
Never miss an episode! Become a member of my Multiversalists community of friends, fans, and creators:
The form can be filled in the actual website url.
Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.
In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I observe what would have been the 90th birthday of my mother, who was a real champion of my creativity.
In thinking of her, I think about creative legacy, and why it’s important, and what I — and so, perhaps, you — can do to make sure we’re doing something every day to ensure it.
The biggest thing, the most important strategy, is right there in the title.
This episode was recorded on December 09, 2025.
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Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
0:00:00 – Introduction
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In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I’m pleased to officially release the countdown app with a point of view I brought into the world and have been using myself for many months: What Matters.
What Matters does one thing: displays how many days are left until a deadline you set, and presents a single question: “Are you doing what matters?”
Listen to the episode to learn why I wanted such a thing to exist, and how to get your copy for Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. Don’t want to wait? Buy it now and tinker with What Matters while you listen to the episode!
Also: all about my now fully-functional battlesta— I mean, online shop. It’s not quite as pretty as I’d like, and there are things I’d like it to do differently, but you can once again purchase e-books, audiobooks, chapbooks, and yes, software directly from me. Learn all about it, especially the WordPress plugins that make it possible, FluentCart and FluentCRM.
This episode was recorded on November 11, 2025.
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Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
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Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!
Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.
Coming to you this time from the actual lush and lavish studios of MWS Media, I observe the twenty-first anniversary of my first podcast, which is also more or less also the 21st anniversary of podcasting itself. In and around that milestone, two podcasting legends have retired, and another ill-conceived podcast award is announced. I have thoughts.
Also, an update on my own creative life, including my new website, a hopefully fresh approach to selling stuff on it, and anxiety around creating fiction.
This episode was recorded on October 14, 2025.
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Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
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Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!
Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.
Coming to you this time from the actual lush and lavish studios of MWS Media, I muse on the “new” trend toward authenticity and unpolished transparency in online media, why it’s always been a good idea, and why it’s good news for writers, authors, and other creators that it’s apparently back in vogue.
Also, an update on my own creative life, including some time alone, some computer woes, and things I’ve been developing and working on.
This episode was recorded on September 23, 2025.
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Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
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Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!
Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.
Sit with me for a bit in the patio of the lush and lavish studios of MWS Media as I discuss my definition of free-range creativity, the concept of multiple origin stories as it pertains to your creative journey, and the latest on a tool I’m developing to help writers and authors keep all their storyworld elements organized and quantified in one place. Among other stuff, of course.
This episode was recorded on August 26, 2025.
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Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
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Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!
Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.
Hang out with me in a park in the gloaming (and the wind, it turns out, and the helicopters and airplanes) for the fourth episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, a podcast in which tales of one particular ongoing creative life might just have something useful for your own.
In this episode, I elaborate on the burnout I mentioned in the previous episode, and go into depth on the mindset, tactics, and strategy I’m employing on a daily basis to climb out of that charred and sooty trench.
This episode was recorded on August 1, 2025.
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Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
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Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!
Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.
Time for another episode of my occasional podcast, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates! This episode, another car-cast, was recorded directly into my Pixel 9A phone, and… I’m on-camera! Don’t worry; I wasn’t driving and filming.
These episodes, just like episodes of my previous podcast, Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, have been uploaded to YouTube all along, but all audio-only. Why get on camera now? Doesn’t that run counter to my goal of turning on a mic, talking, and taking the path of least resistance toward getting it out to you?
It doesn’t have to.
I talk about it in the episode.
I also touch on my professional and creative burn-out, and hint that I’ve begun to take steps to gradually and — this is important — intentionally pull myself out of it. The details of those steps will be in future episodes. My hope is that what I’m figuring out will help you, too.
I’ve had second thoughts about how to name each episode. When you’ve only released three episodes in five months, there’s room to play around.
As you’ve heard (or maybe saw) this episode, I’m maybe-probably making the YouTube edition of this podcast on-camera. Which means treating it in a way that’s YouTube-friendly. Which means assigning a more meaningful title than simply the date.
So! The new naming convention will be the date, a dash, and something pithy to describe the episode. The file name will be mwsc_###_###.mp3, with the first three digits being the episode number and the second three digits being the in-total number representing all of the podcasts I’ve recorded and released. And the URL slug will be similar, but with dashes instead of underscores.
I’m putting this down here for the real sticklers, and so I have a place to check in case I don’t remember when next episode rolls around.
This episode was recorded on July 25, 2025.
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Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.
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Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!
Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.
Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is my audio journal as an independent author, creator, and creative services provider. In this episode, the subject is changing mailing list service providers, and how the process revealed two personality / psychological traits of mine that might benefit from a closer look…
This episode was recorded on April 13, 2025, in the mobile studio of MWS Media in and around Huntington Beach, California.
Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin, who joined in the days between recording this episode and typing these words.
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Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!
Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.
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