Writing the Wrong Way with Jonathan Ball, PhD

Answering the important questions, like what are the best potato chips? www.writingthewrongway.com

Ryan Fitzpatrick and I discuss our #95books reading, and spend a lot of time with Nikki Reimer’s MY HEART IS A ROSE MANHATTAN. We also talk about the following books:

• Kayla Czaga’s DUNK TANK

• Saidiya Hartman’s WAYWARD LIVES, BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENTS: INTIMATE HISTORIES OF SOCIAL UPHEAVAL

• Jean Baudrillard, FATAL STRATEGIES

• Sigmund Freud, BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

• Jeannette Armstrong, SLASH

• Ian Williams’s PERSONALS

• Emily Carroll’s THROUGH THE WOODS

• Emily Carroll’s WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE CASTLE

• Grégoire Courtois’s THE LAWS OF THE SKIES

• Natalee Caple's LOVE IN THE CHTHULUCENE (CTHULHUCENE)

• Nikki Reimer's DOWNVERSE

• Nikki Reimer’s MY HEART IS A ROSE MANHATTAN

Next time, Ryan and I will read discuss the Ian Williams novel REPRODUCTION. Get the book and read along with us!

Show notes available at www.writingthewrongway.com

What can writers learn from Leatherface, killer (hero?) of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE? A talk on writing, horror, and the ethics (and evils) of art. Full text and free sonnets about Leatherface at www.jonathanball.com/leatherface

I have been a fan of S. M. Beiko’s webcomic Krampus Is My Boyfriend since page one, and generally impressed with Beiko since I started paying attention to her work. As she finished work on the first 48-page print collection of the online story, I interviewed Beiko about how to get your start in webcomics, and comics overall, and how to plan out a lengthy story that unfolds serially in instalments. Show notes at www.jonathanball.com/33

Having a hard time keeping focused while pursuing your creative work? Try the Focus Form, a simple tool for writers or artists or entrepreneurs designed using principles of cognitive-behaviour therapies and mindfulness meditation. Show notes are available at www.jonathanball.com/focusform

Part 2 of my interview with Tony Burgess, author of the zombie horror film PONTYPOOL and the novel it is based on, PONTYPOOL CHANGES EVERYTHING, and many other books and movies. We talk about writing, horror and many other topics. Show notes available at www.jonathanball.com/31 and www.writingthewrongway.com

Part 1 of my interview with Tony Burgess, author of the zombie horror film PONTYPOOL and the novel it is based on, PONTYPOOL CHANGES EVERYTHING, and many other books and movies. We talk about writing, horror and many other topics. Show notes available at www.jonathanball.com/30 and www.writingthewrongway.com

Mitchell Levy (www.mitchelllevy360.com) joins host Jonathan Ball (www.jonathanball.com) to discuss how books can serve as a foundation for business, ghostwriting, and more. Show notes at www.jonathanball.com/29 and www.writingthewrongway.com — for information on Jonathan's newest book go to www.jonathanball.com/newbook

Ryan Fitzpatrick, co-creator of the #95books challenge, joins me to talk about our 2019 reading so far, our favourite books and the essay collection REFUSE: CANLIT IN RUINS. Show notes available at www.jonathanball.com/28 and more on the #95books reading challenge at www.95books.com

How do you choose which projects to work on, discover which ideas will help you grow as an author, and otherwise manage having too many ideas? Visit www.jonathanball.com/27 for the article version of this podcast and other show notes.