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- 078: Sponges
In episode 078 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the focus is on the balance between taking things in and acting on what you’ve absorbed.
When is it okay to not be writing / creating?
Why is that alleged downtime actually essential to the entire creative process?
This episode was recorded on April 3rd, 2023. It took three hours and thirty-five minutes to record, edit, produce and mix down the audio, create and upload the MP3 files, create, render, and upload the YouTube edition, write the show notes, and schedule the episode for release.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- Did you miss the conversation with author Rhiannon Held?
- The sponge meme mentioned is from this Scribtotum article.
- My exploration of Obsidian, a knowledge management application, continues. It just might fit the bill as coming close as possible to my idea of the perfect software for fiction writers.
- No, not this kind of sponge.
- Listener feedback this episode comes from Multiversalist Member Patron Amy Bowen.
- She mentions NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month.
- Scrivener, a popular software application for writers, is mentioned.
- Also mentioned is the excellent mind-mapping application Mindomo.
- Shadow of the Outsider is my current work-in-progress, the follow-up to my latest novel Light of the Outsider and my latest novelette, “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
- Hey! Did you know you can also listen and subscribe to Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick on YouTube?
- Next episode will feature a conversation with the speculative playwright Monica Cross. Be sure you’ve subscribed for free wherever you get your podcasts so you don’t miss it!
- Maybe you would like to be a future guest on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick? Learn more!
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins! This episode took almost nine hours to record, edit, produce, and publish, so I’m incredibly grateful for the support of my patrons. If Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick brings you joy, become a patron!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, patrons get an additional ten minures (give or take) of content. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and have the desire and means to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks.
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This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.24 min - 077: Rhiannon Held
Episode 077 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick features an interview with author Rhiannon (R. Z.) Held.
Rhiannon Held is the author of the Silver series of urban fantasy novels published by Tor. As R. Z. Held, she writes the Amsterdam Institute series of space opera novellas. Her short fiction, also under R. Z. Held, appears in Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Hybrid Fiction, and a number of other publications and anthologies.
Rhiannon lives near Seattle, where she works as an archaeologist for an environmental compliance firm. At work, she mostly uses her degree for copy-editing technical reports; in writing, she uses it for cultural world-building; in public, she’ll probably use it to check the mold seams on the wine bottle at dinner.
Our conversation goes deep on…
- cultural worldbuilding
- deep time in fiction
- touching people through our stories
- balancing writing from the heart and following genre tropes
- reaching new readers
- the benefits of walking and “buffer zones” between our working and writing life…
…and a whole lot more. This one is chock full of good stuff. Listen!
This episode was recorded on March 27th, 2023. The conversation with Rhiannon Held was recorded on January 22nd, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- Rhiannon mentions LARPing. That stands for Live Action Role Playing. Here’s a little more about LARPs.
- Rhiannon also mentioned play-by-email role playing games… a modern(ish) version of play-by-mail games that started in the 1970s.
- Personal creative franchises (storyworlds) come up a lot on this show. In this episode, I mentioned Michael Moorcock‘s Eternal Champion, Stephen King’s loosely interconnected Prime Earth, and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pellucidar.
- Rhiannon mentions Chaco Culture and Mesa Verde.
- I bring up Kevin J. Anderson’s walking / dictation routine.
- What is walking meditation?
- Rhiannon mentions NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month.
- Here is the episode where I reveal my proposal for fixing the Amazon bookstore.
- Rhiannon mentions the DARE program, which, surprisingly, is still a thing.
- Maybe you would like to be a future guest on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick? Learn more!
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins! This episode took almost nine hours to record, edit, produce, and publish, so I’m incredibly grateful for the support of my patrons. If Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick brings you joy, become a patron!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, patrons get an additional half hour of content, including an entire side conversation on Rhiannon Held’s particular day to day life as an archaeologist, plus lots of other stuff. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
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This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.1 hr 10 min - 076: The Means to Create
A car-cast edition of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, episode 076 presents another possibly audacious proposal as a… means… to acquire the financial means to have the time and energy to engage in major creative projects in an all-out approach, rather than in bits and pieces as opportunity allows.
Also: listener feedback!
This episode was recorded on March 20th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- Did you miss last episode’s in-depth conversation with author Joyce Reynolds-Ward? Check it out!
- Obsidian.md is a knowledge management application that works almost any way you want it. I’m investigating it as a possible platform to serve as my perfect / ideal software for creative writing — a subject I went deep on in this episode of Sonitotum.
- Creator and developer Chrispian H. Burks offered excellent feedback and perspective on the feasibility of developing my dream writing software from whole cloth. He’s also been a friend and fan for pretty much ever, so cheers, pal!
- Reader community member Brian reached out about Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started,” and really inspired this episode. Thanks, Brian!
- Brian — like not a few members of my reader community over the years — is keenly interested in an official audiobook for the canonical edition of my first novel, Brave Men Run — A Novel of the Sovereign Era. The only Sovereign Era audiobook available so far is for my short story “The World Revolves Around You.”
- One of the ongoing works in progress that might get a real speed boost from my proposal is Shadow of the Outsider, the next volume of my Shaper’s World cycle, which so far includes the novel Light of the Outsider and the novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
- I mentioned the Scribtotum article in which I discuss the difference between systems and goals — and the benefits of the former over the latter.
- The last time I did anything like a crowdfunding campaign, I kept it simple, I kept it small, and I rolled my own. You can read all about it in this Scribtotum article.
- This episode features some listener feedback from Multiversalist member patron Amelia Bowen. Thanks, Amy!
- Next episode features an interview with urban fantasy author Rhiannon Held. Be sure you’re subscribed to Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick anywhere you get your podcasts so you don’t miss it!
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and have the desire and means to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks.
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This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.36 min - 075: In Conversation: Joyce Reynolds-Ward
Episode 075 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick features an interview with author Joyce Reynolds-Ward.
Joyce Reynolds-Ward (also find her on Twitter!) creates science fiction and fantasy works featuring themes of high-stakes family and political conflict, digital sentience, personal agency and control, realistic strong women, and (whenever possible) horses, frequently in Pacific Northwest settings.
Joyce is a Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off semifinalist, a Writers of the Future semifinalist, and an Anthology Builder finalist. She is the Secretary of the Northwest Independent Writers Association, a fellow member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association, and a member of Soroptimists International.
Joyce writes in a variety of storyworlds, including The Netwalk Sequence, Goddess’s Honor, and The Martiniere books. She also has several stand-alone novels and other works out there in the world.
Our conversation covers why and what she writes, her definition of success and how close she is to accomplishing it, worldbuilding, character-driven storytelling, working around genre restrictions and expectations, the slow build of organic community building, managing ADHD with systems and structure, and a whole lot more.
This episode was recorded on March 15th, 2023. The conversation with Joyce Reynolds-Ward was recorded on January 18th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- Here is that episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick in which I discuss the perfect software application for fiction writers.
- Then again, maybe I’ve found it… but it’s going to take some tinkering. Learn about Obsidian.
- You’ll have to listen to the episode to discover why I mention the song “Thunder Island” by Jay Ferguson.
- Ursula K. Le Guin comes up a lot on this podcast. This time around, Joyce and I talk about Always Coming Home and The Lathe of Heaven, two undeniable classics.
- Joyce mentions Hovenweep National Monument.
- Want one of those easels Joyce mentions? Check it out.
- Joyce mentions Scrivener, a writing software application you’ve probably heard of.
- Some of the authors Joyce mentions as reference points for her own work include Ivan Doig, Willa Cather, and John Steinbeck.
- Joyce, like myself, chafes at genre expectations and restrictions. Here is the Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode wherein I really get going about genres and tropes.
- Joyce mentions The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather as having a beautiful descriptive passage.
- Joyce calls author Phyllis Irene Radford a mentor.
- What is a tickler file?
- TinyLetter is one of many choices for your e-mail marketing services provider. I prefer ConvertKit.
- Looking for a way to do direct sales of your books and other creative products? I talk about Gumroad.
- Turns out Joyce uses the same web hosting company I’ve used for the better part of twenty years, Dreamhost.
- What is Amazon Vella?
- Like Joyce and myself, you might consider Draft2Digital for self-publishing distribution.
- Maybe you would like to be a future guest on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick? Learn more!
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and have the desire and means to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks.
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This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.57 min - 074: The Thing About Social Media Is…
In episode 074 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I spell out the most important thing authors must consider when conceiving your social media marketing plan… or even if, indeed, you should have one. My advice might be a relief to you, or it might piss you off… because it’s not necessarily what most folks are suggesting.
This episode was recorded on March 6th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- You can now name your own price (at least a buck; upper limit determined by your generosity and means) on all of my e-books when you purchase them directly from me. Check out what’s available.
- Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick can now be found on YouTube, if that’s your thing when it comes to audio podcasts. You can find the playlist here, and if you’d like notified whenever there’s a new episode cross-posted to YouTube, be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel for free.
- Props to my client Walter Herbst, who found the sweet spot for his social media marketing over there at Reddit.
- Name your own price for my book Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure. It’s all about… well, what it’s all about is right there in the title!
- Through March 11, 2023, you’ll find discounts on my books and many others during the Smashwords Read an E-Book Week promotion. Go shopping!
- Next episode features an interview with Joyce Reynolds-Ward. Be sure you’re subscribed to Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick anywhere you get your podcasts so you don’t miss it!
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and have the desire and means to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks.
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This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.30 min - 073: In Conversation: P. A. Cornell
Episode 073 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick features an interview with author P. A. Cornell — the first interview since episode 10 in 2018!
P.A. Cornell is a Chilean-Canadian writer who penned her first speculative-fiction story as a third-grade assignment (a science-fiction piece about shape-shifting aliens). While her early publications were in non-fiction, she has been steadily selling her short fiction since 2016.
An active member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association and 2002 graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, her stories have appeared in several professional anthologies and genre magazines, including Galaxy’s Edge, Cossmass Infinities, and Compelling Science Fiction, an anthology from Flame Tree Press.
Her debut science fiction novella Lost Cargo was published in 2022 by Mocha Memoirs Press.
You can learn more at pacornell.com or find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Our conversation covers P. A.’s early and current influences, why and what she writes, her definition of success, developing the intuition to know when a story’s going to work, creating around depression and anxiety, and a whole lot more.
This episode was recorded on February 27th, 2023. The conversation with P. A. Cornell was recorded on January 18th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- You can now name your own price (at least a buck; upper limit determined by your generosity and means) on all of my e-books when you purchase them directly from me. Check out what’s available.
- Why’d I move to a “name your own price” model? Listen to Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 070 for the details, or you can read this Scribtotum article.
- Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is a free fiction serial provided free and exclusively to the members of my mailing list community. Get a new installment of eighties-flavored fiction delivered to your inbox every week when you subscribe for free!
- Shadow of the Outsider is my current major work in progress. While we all wait, you can catch up with its predecessors, the novel Light of the Outsider and the novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.” And don’t forget — you can name your own price for the e-books!
- The last time I published an interview in an episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick was this conversation with musician Emma Wallace.
- What is felt art?
- P. A.’s great-uncle was a personal friend of Pablo Neruda. You should get to know him, too!
- What’s a Drabble?
- Among P. A.’s contemporary influences are the authors Sarah Pinsker and Derrick Boden.
- Who was Lester Dent?
- Author Jeff VanderMeer’s funny tweet (okay, one of…)
- If you’re a writer and you haven’t yet seen Barton Fink… fix that.
- I mentioned the web and smartphone app Focus@Will for background music to help you… well, focus!
- Both P. A. Cornell and I swear by the use of natural light light bulbs.
- Maybe you would like to be a future guest on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick? Learn more!
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and have the desire and means to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks.
This episode has extra content only available for patron members of the Multiversalists community! If you're a patron member at the Bronze level or above, please log in! Click here to learn more about the benefits of membership.
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.58 min - 072: Let’s Make the Perfect Software for Fiction Writers
What make the perfect software for fiction writers? What features are missing from all the usual suspects?
In this park cast episode 072 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I wander around in the sunshine and suggest the specifications for what just might be the perfect software application of writers of all kinds. Listen to see if you agree, and by all means, add your wish list and suggestions in the comments!
This episode was recorded on February 20th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- This episode recorded at Central Park in Huntington Beach, California.
- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- You can now name your own price (at least a buck; upper limit determined by your generosity and means) on all of my e-books when you purchase them directly from me. Check out what’s available.
- Why’d I move to a “name your own price” model? Listen to Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 070 for the details, or you can read this Scribtotum article.
- No more need to visit that big online retailer to “Look Inside the Book” when it comes to my fiction and nonfiction! Visit any of the dedicated pages for my books and click the “Read a Sample” link for a taste… and then pay what you want for the e-book!
- Since this is a park cast, I used my lavalier mic, which I recommend.
- Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is a free fiction serial provided free and exclusively to the members of my mailing list community. Get a new installment of eighties-flavored fiction delivered to your inbox every week when you subscribe for free!
- Shadow of the Outsider is my current major work in progress. While we all wait, you can catch up with its predecessors, the novel Light of the Outsider and the novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.” And don’t forget — you can name your own price for the e-books!
- Some of the writing software applications that come close, but aren’t quite right, include:
- Scrivener
- Plottr
- yWriter
- An outliner I use every days for a variety of tasks and highly recommend — but it’s still lacking as a software application for writers — is Dynalist.
- Are personal knowledge management software applications as close as we get (for now) to the perfect software applications for writers? Examples include:
- Obsidian
- Notion
- Logseq
- OneNote
- Tana
- Why Josephine? It’s my little tribute to the memory of my grandmother on my stepfather’s side, Josephine Bridickas. Cheers, Gram Jos!
- The SFWA author who recommended a little AI “daemon” on your shoulder as you write — like real time fact checking of your own work — is R. Jean Mathieu.
- I mention Seafile, the open source, self-hosted replacement for Dropbox and / or Google Drive. It’s pretty neat.
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and have the desire and means to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks.
This episode has extra content only available for patron members of the Multiversalists community! If you're a patron member at the Bronze level or above, please log in! Click here to learn more about the benefits of membership.
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.43 min - 071: Get Out of Your Head and Stop Judging Yourself
The 71st episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick turns the focus to staying healthy and sane as we build our creative writing life. Listen as I describe my own struggles with comparison, validation, and executing on what I know works. You’ll hear plenty you can apply to your own creative practice.
This episode was recorded on February 14th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- You can now name your own price (at least a buck, and an upper limit determined by your generosity and means) on all of my e-books when you purchase them directly from me. Check out what’s available.
- Why’d I move to a “name your own price” model? Listen to Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 070 for the details.
- No more need to visit that big online retailer to “Look Inside the Book” when it comes to my fiction and nonfiction! Visit any of the dedicated pages for my books and click the “Read a Sample” link for a taste… and then pay what you want for the e-book!
- Since this is a car cast, I used my lavalier mic, which I recommend.
- My mother comes up in this episode. To understand her influence on my creative life — and maybe yours, too — you’ll want to read this tribute.
- Are you familiar with the principles of stoicism?
- How about grit?
- That scene from You’ve Got Mail I mention…
- I’ll be at the 2023 SFWA Nebula Conference this year. How about you?
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and have the desire and means to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks.
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This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.31 min - 070: Name Your Price
Episode 070 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick includes a pretty big announcement: You can now name your own price (minimum $1.00 USD) for all of my e-books when you purchase directly from me. Listen to learn how I did it, what pieces remain to be put in place to make the change as effective as possible, and most importantly, why I’ve decided to adopt a pay-what-you-want pricing model for my commercially available creative endeavor.
This episode was recorded on February 7th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- As mentioned above, you can name your own price (at least a buck, and an upper limit determined by your generosity and means) on all of my e-books when you purchase them from me through this website. Check out what’s available.
- I’ve been talking about my focus on building a community of readers and writers for some time, now.
- Did you know audiobooks are available for many of my works of fiction? Did you know you can save money when you buy direct from me and bundle your purchase with an e-book? My audiobooks include:
- Light of the Outsider
- “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay”
- “The World Revolves Around You”
- Four Stories
- “Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf”
- “Cloak”
- I offer a free weekly fiction serial, Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” via e-mail to anyone who become a member of my free mailing list community.
- My direct e-book and audiobook sales are handled by Gumroad, a secure digital product delivery service.
- My mailing list service provider is ConvertKit, a company founded by a writer to specifically help other writers and creators build communities.
- I use Mindomo for mind-mapping and brainstorming.
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins!
- The Multiversalists patron member community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. Want in on that? Become a patron for at least $5.00 per month (cancel any time) and get a bunch of other perks and special access, too.
- Every month the member community has at least twenty members, I will donate 10% of net patron revenue to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and have the desire and means to make a one-time donation in support of the show? Donate via PayPal or leave a tip via Ko-Fi, with my grateful thanks.
This episode has extra content only available for patron members of the Multiversalists community! If you're a patron member at the Bronze level or above, please log in! Click here to learn more about the benefits of membership.
This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.30 min - 069: Best Practices for Character Creation
In episode 069 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick: A big announcement about a new feature coming to the podcast, plus a detailed overview of how I go about creating realistic and meaningful fictional characters. Authors and writers will find something of value there (or at least get some validation!) and consumers of fiction will enjoy a behind-the-scenes peek at the creative writing process.
This episode was recorded on January 30th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode- My day job? I’m a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators. How can I help you?
- Since the last episode, Rhiannon Held, Anthony Eichenlaub, Krista Walsh, Jeffery E. Doherty, Celia Lake, and Debra Parmley have joined P. A. Cornell, Joyce Reynolds-Ward and Monica Cross in recording interviews for future episodes of Sonitotum. These were great conversations I can’t wait to share with you… meanwhile, check out their works via the links on their names!
- Are you a writer or author interested in being a guest? Inquire!
- I love, love, love Godzilla movies, but I’ll be the very first to admit they are mostly not character-driven works of narrative fiction. And that’s okay for them… but I believe as authors we should strive for more.
- One of the best examples in my own work of a character’s internal conflict mirroring the conflict of the plot is my short story “Reggie vs. Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf.”
- In discussing character development, I talk about the main character of Shadow of the Outsider, the follow up to my novel Light of the Outsider and the follow-up novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
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