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January 25, 2023068: Fractional Serenity / Listener Feedback
Episode 068 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is a big one, kids! Listen to hear about interviews with authors I’ve recorded for future episodes, my (unresolved when recorded; resolved by the time you read this) issues with my podcast media files host, and take in my advice (based on recent experiences) on how to maintain perspective when it comes to all the things that might trouble you in your creative writing life.
Also! Tons of listener feedback!
This episode was recorded on January 21st, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
As my cold maintains less and less of a hold over me in the past week, I’ve had to prioritize my day job as a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators.
While I didn’t get anything new done on my free fiction serial Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started,” you can still get in on what’s already done and read over a year and a half’s worth of fiction for free!
Similarly, sick-brain kept me from work on my next novel, Shadow of the Outsider, but you can still read the first two works in the Shaper’s World storyworld, the novel Light of the Outsider and the follow-up novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.” Get ’em!
As of this recording, I had the pleasure of interviewing authors P. A. Cornell, Joyce Reynolds-Ward, and Monica Cross 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!
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!
When we hit thirty members, I’ll start releasing the interviews with authors and other creators I’m recording right now! C’mon!
The one and only official RSS feed for subscribing to Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick wherever you get your podcasts is https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum/.
I’ve migrated my podcast media files to Amazon Lightsail and I’m using the venerable and reliable Podtrac for podcast analytics, starting with this episode.
Have you heard of Spoons Theory by Christine Miserandino?
The Sonitotum episode on gratitude I mention.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”
Multiversalist member patron Amy Bowen was kind enough to offer a bunch of listener feedback for several past episodes. Be sure to check out Amy’s site and her podcasts!
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47 min
January 17, 2023067: Does Obsessing Over Numbers Add Up?
In episode 067 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the focus is on finding success. Listen as I fight valiantly through a head cold (and around a slightly illness-addled brain) to share what I’ve learned about the value (or not) of paying close and constant attention to the sales figures, analytics, and other statistics associated with a creative writing life.
How important is obsessing over numbers when it comes to finding success? Listen to find out!
This episode was recorded on January 14th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
I’m going to chalk it up to cold medicine’s undeniable effect: I neglected to thank my member community in the episode. I’m a doofus. With a runny nose. SO: Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins! Join them for five dollars a month for lots of exclusive content and access!
One of the reasons I got sick is because I was working waaaaay too hard in the previous week in my capacity as a creative services provider helping authors, podcasters and other creators.
I’ve plotted out the next several installments of my free fiction serial, Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” for my mailing list and for my Multiversalists. Learn more about how you can read over a year and a half’s worth of fiction!
As soon as the Multiversalists member community is thirty patrons strong, every other episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick will feature an interview with a writer or other creator. These “evergreen” conversations will emphasize the what the creator makes, how they find success and how they define it, and their methods for staying healthy and sane in the process. I’ve begun booking conversations, and by the time the next Sonitotum is released, I’ll have recorded four! Are you a writer or author interested in being a guest? Inquire!
The booking service I use is the excellent BookLikeABoss. Endorsed and recommended!
I mentioned a book sales tracking service I used to use, but is not quite ready for prime time. It’s ScribeCount.
The podcast file hosting service I’ve been using, and am in the process of moving away from, is Zencast.fm. Formerly endorsed and recommended, but for the reasons I discuss in the episode, I no longer recommend this service.
I’ll be migrating the podcast media files to Amazon Lightsail and using the venerable and reliable Podtrac for podcast analytics, probably by the next episode.
I mention a snippet of dialogue I thought was from Raymond Chandler, but I can’t find it anywhere. It’s something like, “You carry a flask. Do you drink a lot?” “I don’t drink, but I like knowing it’s there.” Can anyone identify that??
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!
When we hit thirty members, I’ll start releasing the interviews with authors and other creators I’m recording right now! C’mon!
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23 min
January 10, 2023066: Should Writers Fear Artificial Intelligence?
Welcome up, listeners! In this 66th episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I discuss the potential impact of artificial intelligence on creative endeavors. In particular, we look at ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion, especially as the former applies to and affects creative writers.
Should writers fear artificial intelligence? Listen to find out!
This episode was recorded on January 7th, 2023.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
Words were added to my patron-exclusive wiki and to my work in progress novel, Shadow of the Outsider, the follow-up to Light of the Outsider and “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
In talking about the “big picture” article I wrote for the wiki, I mention early influences Michael Moorcock, Stephen King, Marvel Comics, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Robert Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. LeGuin, and Julian May.
Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins! Join them for five dollars a month for lots of exclusive content and access!
As soon as the Multiversalists member community is thirty patrons strong, every other episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick will feature an interview with a writer or other creator. These “evergreen” conversations will emphasize the what the creator makes, how they find success and how they define it, and their methods for staying healthy and sane in the process. In the days between recording this episode and releasing it to the world, I’ve already received a dozen inquiries from authors! Be like them, creators!
Stable Diffusion is text-to-image artificial intelligence you can install on your own computer.
ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot that some see as a threat to the careers and creative expression of authors and writers.
I use “the benefits of warm milk before bed” as an example of an article topic one might ask ChatGPT to expand upon. Here’s a screen shot of what it actually came up with. Note that every one of the citations are entirely fictional.
Here is the Lester Dent pulp fiction short story formula.
I mentioned the Sonitotum episode in which I reveal how to fix Amazon.com.
Ben Moran’s art was banned from a Reddit channel after being misidentified as “AI art.”
Seth Godin has his take on AI art. Not so sure we’re sympatico this time.
Apple now accepts AI voices for audiobook narration. BOOOOOOOOOO.
I created these images using Stable Diffusion on my computer.
The “uncanny valley.”
What’s a player piano?
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!
When we hit thirty members, I’ll start releasing the interviews with authors and other creators I’m recording right now! C’mon!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like 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.
44 min
January 03, 2023065: What to Expect in 2023
Happy new year, Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick listener community! In this 65th episode, I have a few announcements regarding what you can expect in 2023 from this podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process.
This episode was recorded on December 30th, 2022.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
The end of 2022 was (happily) crowded with wrapping up various projects for writer and podcasting clients of my creative services business. Perhaps I can help you in 2023!
I offer a free ongoing fiction serial set in my Sovereign Era storyworld (Brave Men Run, Pilgrimage, The World Revolves Around You and other works). I added one more installment before 2022 came to a close. You can subscribe for free to Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” and receive new installments every week, delivered directly to your inbox! Get in on a year and a half (and counting) of free fiction, starting from the beginning, when you susbcribe.
As soon as the Multiversalists member community is thirty patrons strong, every other episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick will feature an interview with a writer or other creator. These “evergreen” conversations will emphasize the what the creator makes, how they find success and how they define it, and their methods for staying healthy and sane in the process. If you’re a creator interested recording an interview, please reach out to me (email link)!
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!
Oh, and speaking of patronage: This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins! Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron with a $5 monthly pledge!
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This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
16 min
December 20, 2022064: Year End Thoughts and Thanks
A quick episode to close out 2022 with some thoughts and thanks. The next episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick will be on January 3, 2023!
Also:
Announcing a sale on my e-book through the end of the year: All of my short stories are FREE and all my other novels, novelettes, collections, and non-fiction works are 50% off! Only at Smashwords.com, and ONLY until the end of 2022. Go get some stuff to read!
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
Thanks to my podcast listeners in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and Russia! You folks are awesome. I’ll see you next year.
The patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they’re privy to almost twenty four minutes of more 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.
Around thirty people listen to each new episode of this show during the first week it’s released. 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!
Oh, and speaking of patronage: This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including Amelia Bowen, Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins! Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron with a $5 monthly pledge!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like 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.
10 min
December 13, 2022063: To Be a Hack or Not to Be a Hack
It’s time for episode 063 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, in which I explore the fact that great artistic expression is not necessary for commercial / financial success in self publishing. What does that mean for those of us who want our fiction to add meaningfully to the culture? Would it be better to write fast, simplistic, books to have a better chance at subsidizing high art? What the heck is high art, anyway, and who am I to decide..?
Also, an update on my creative endeavors, including new manuscript words and a new market for all of my published works.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
Scenes are being written and a schedule is shaping up for my work in progress Shadow of the Outsider, the follow-up to my novel Light of the Outsider and the novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
Hey, would you like a whole episode on the subject of story architecture, with an emphasis on the structure, terms, strategies, and tactics I employ writing fiction? Leave a comment!
All of my books are now available in the Smashwords e-book store! Go get ’em.
This episode was inspired, in part, by a quote from the documentary filmmaker Brett Morgan, as heard in his interview on WTF with Marc Maron episode 1365: “If you’ve seen it before, why in the world are you doing that?”
This episode was inspired, in another part, by a sub-thread in the Wide for the Win Facebook group in which I participated.
The patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they’re privy to almost 30% more 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.
Around thirty people listen to each new episode of this show during the first week it’s released. 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!
Oh, and speaking of patronage: This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including Ted Leonhardt, Chuck Anderson, and J. C. Hutchins! Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron with a $5 monthly pledge!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like 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.
34 min
December 06, 2022062: How to Fix the Amazon Bookstore
Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 062 revisits my infrequent rant against genres and nested categories, especially on Amazon.com — but this time, I present a way to fix it — a way that improves discovery of authors and brings readers more of what they’ll love.
Also, an update on my creative endeavors, observing eleven years since I had a regular full-time job for someone else, and new patron-only additions to my website!
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is my fiction serial set in the 1980s and delivered weekly, for free, to subscribers. Get in on it and start at the beginning! Or, read every installment to date when you join the member community!
My wiki is the storehouse of all my notes and “behind the curtain” information regarding my fiction, non-fiction, worldbuilding, songs, poetry… all of it, and I’m adding to it all the time. Access is another perk of community membership!
Speaking of: the patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they’re privy to almost nine minutes (another 20%!) of extra 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.
Around thirty people listen to each new episode of this show during the first week it’s released. 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!
Oh, and speaking of patronage: This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including Ted Leonhardt and Chuck Anderson! Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron with a $5 monthly pledge!
I’m renewing my interest in computer graphics, environment design, and related stuff. The best free tools are Blender and Unreal Engine.
The course I’m taking for Blender is Complete Blender Creator 3.2: Learn 3D Modelling for Beginners.
The Unreal Engine course I’ll be dipping into later this month is Unreal Masterclass. The instructor, Unreal Sensei, has a ton of free YouTube resources and tutorials, too.
My Shaper’s World storyworld, which I dream of creating in an immersive 3D environment, so far includes the novel Light of the Outsider and the novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.”
Not just science fiction: Ray Bradbury‘s period mysteries, Death is a Lonely Business, A Graveyard for Lunatics, and Let’s All Kill Constance, are simply delightful. How many readers of The Martian Chronicles even know they exist?
The works of Ursula K. Le Guin.
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This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
35 min
November 29, 2022061: An Audacious Aspiration
In this episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I break down all the details of the newly revised, revamped, simplified, and improved member community supporting authors and other creators who are fans of the podcast and my creative endeavors. Listen to learn all about it, and how you can become a Multiversalist, too!
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
Nearly everything I talk about in this episode is spelled out on the Member Community page. Click to get the whole story!
I also mention the day job, which is helping authors, podcasters, and other creators bring their creative endeavors to fruition, to market, and to an audience. Can I help you?
Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is my fiction serial set in the 1980s and delivered weekly, for free, to subscribers. Get in on it and start at the beginning! Or, read every installment to date when you join the member community!
Speaking of: the patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they’re privy to almost thirteen minutes of extra 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.
Around thirty people listen to each new episode of this show during the first week it’s released. 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!
Oh, and speaking of patronage: This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including J. C. Hutchins, Ted Leonhardt, and Chuck Anderson! Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron with a $5 monthly pledge!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like 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.
48 min
November 22, 2022060: One Writer’s Toolkit
This episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick is chock full of recommendations straight from my writer’s toolkit: the software and services I use day in / day out in my creative endeavors and in my work helping other creative writers.
Also in the episode: more hints at what’s to come for my patron member community, and a bit more on the situational depression that still lingers since the previous episode.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
Dynalist is my offboard brain, as well as my to-do list keeper and an excellent outliner. Simplicity makes it as complex as you want it to be. First on the list because it’s my most valued tool.
Notepad++ is a plain text editor on steroids… it’s really “double plus good.”
Scrivener is accepted as the standard writer’s outliner, word processor, asset organizer, and formatter… but its “everything and the kitchen sink” nature is exactly why I use it — and recommend it — only grudgingly. A free, much lighter, and more focused program is yWriter, which I find almost just right for the way I like to write. Here’s an article I wrote about yWriter, especially as it compares to Scrivener. Try them both. Use them both! You may find one or both are just right for you.
The free Q10 is my favorite full-screen, distraction-free plain text editor and the one writing tool with which I can most often slip into the coveted flow state. Highly recommended!
There are many mind-mapping software options, some free, some not. None of them offer the simplicity and flexibility I find with Mindomo.
Do you use a whiteboard? Do you wish you had a whiteboard with functionally infinite space and deep zoom? How about one on any of your devices? How about for free? Check out Excalidraw.
Microsoft Word (and its attendant Microsoft Office suite, which apparently is now called Microsoft 365 or some such), is synonymous with word processing (and spreadsheets and so on). Did you know there’s a completely free alternative that’s also compatible with the offering from Redmond? Check out LibreOffice. You might not ever pay Microsoft a subscription fee again.
Speaking of icky software-by-subscription attempted monopolies: When it comes to image creation and manipulation and desktop publishing, the Adobe suite of Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign are the assumed defaults. They can also be expensive..! While there are free alternatives for bitmap image editing and creation, vector image creation, and desktop publishing (GIMP, Inkscape, and Scribus, respectively), in my experience they’re not quite ready for prime time. I use a for-pay suite of products that give the Adobe programs a run for their money… and cost far less of your money, too! Check out the Affinity applications Photo, Designer, and Publisher, and cancel your Adobe subscription!
I use Affinity Publisher to design the interiors of paperback and hardcover books for myself and for clients. For e-books? While there are a number of “meatgrinder” solutions out there, I prefer the free, open source Sigil to create industry-standard EPUB e-books (suitable for any e-book reader / device / marketplace except Amazon, and capable of perfect conversion to the format(s) Amazon does use).
We’re in an era when being a writer also means being… a content creator. And that usually means recording, and editing, video. You can get away with the basics using the programs that came with your computer, or even simply using your phone. But when you want to take it up a notch and create professional grade, high definition videos… did you know there’s a free tool that will let you do just that? Once again: there’s no need to turn to an Adobe subscription or pay hundreds of dollars for a software license. The free version of DaVinci Resolve gives you everything you need… and lots of features and capabilities you might not realize you need to make really good looking videos.
My latest non-fiction book is Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure, a distillation of some of what I teach when I coach new writers considering self-publishing.
I mention the day job, which is helping authors, podcasters, and other creators bring their creative endeavors to fruition, to market, and to an audience. Can I help you?
Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is my fiction serial set in the 1980s and delivered weekly, for free, to subscribers. Get in on it and start at the beginning!
My patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they’re privy to almost fifteen minutes of extra 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.
Around thirty people listen to each new episode of this show during the first week it’s released. If most of the listeners became Exceptional patrons ($5.00 per month), patron revenue would surpass $100 per month, and I could begin donating 10% every month to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Oh, and speaking of patronage: This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including J. C. Hutchins, Ted Leonhardt, and Chuck Anderson! Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron with a $5 monthly pledge!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like 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.
57 min
November 14, 2022059: Up from the Valley
Your host comes from a week with the case of the Blahs in episode 059 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick. Sometimes, it goes down like that. Not every week is a good one; not every week is productive. We roll with it; we look ahead.
Also in the episode: musing about ways to craft a patron member community that emphasizes value for everyone.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon, provides his definition of depression.
I mention the day job, which is helping authors, podcasters, and other creators bring their creative endeavors to fruition, to market, and to an audience. Can I help you?
Work continues, piecemeal, on Shadow of the Outsider, the follow up to my previous novel Light of the Outsider and the novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.” Huzzah!
My latest non-fiction book is Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure, a distillation of some of what I teach when I coach new writers considering self-publishing.
The story of bottom line ads in Marvel comicbooks from the seventies… and Scott Edelman, the host of the Eating the Fantastic podcast, who just so happened to write most of the bottom line copy I saw as a kid!
The WordPress plugin I’m using to insert random “top line” copy on my site is Random Content.
The episode of Sonitotum about storyworlds and creative franchises is number 058.
Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is my fiction serial set in the 1980s and delivered weekly, for free, to subscribers. Get in on it and start at the beginning!
My patron community receives the uncut, unedited version of every episode. For this episode, they’re privy to about ten minutes of extra 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.
Around thirty people listen to each new episode of this show during the first week it’s released. If most of the listeners became Exceptional patrons ($5.00 per month), patron revenue would surpass $100 per month, and I could begin donating 10% every month to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!
Oh, and speaking of patronage: This episode was made possible in part by the patronage of listeners like you, including J. C. Hutchins and Ted Leonhardt. Want to support the show and be listed in the credits, plus get lots of other goodies, perks, and exclusive access? Become a patron with a $3, $5, $10, or $20 monthly pledge!
Love Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick and would like 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.
23 min

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