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A podcast for and about writers—the business side and the creative perspective—and how our life experiences intersect with our writing work. How we do it, why we do it and what keeps us going as we navigate the creative environment. Because, published or not, wildly popular or still unknown, we are all writers. ”Living the Writing Life” is a copyrighted podcast solely owned by author Nancy Christie. For more information, visit her website at www.nancychristie.com.
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Dr. Kushin is the author of the coming-of-age novel Beware the Smart Kids. An award-winning professor, author, and scholar at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, he’s also the author of Teach Social Media: A Plan for Creating a Course Your Students Will Love, and writes Social Media Syllabus, a popular blog and resource tool for social media educators.
He is a senior fellow in the Stubblefield Institute for Civil Political Communications, where he also serves on the board of advisors, and is passionate about creating a more civil and kinder world.
For more about Dr. Kushin, visit his website and follow him on Instagram.
In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about the link between happiness and creativity.
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Sunday Nov 03, 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we need to take time just to breathe for creativity’s sake.
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Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Wednesday Oct 09, 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we need to feed our creative confidence with positive memories.
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Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Wednesday Sep 18, 2024
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta is an award-winning author, teacher, and speaker who teaches writing for Harvard and Oxford.
She is the author of thirteen books, including the novels Ark and She Never Told Me About the Ocean, the memoir-in-essays Awake with Asashoryu, and the guidebook Edit Your Life—which was inspired by her 2019 TEDxBoise talk.
She co-edited the anthology What Doesn’t Kill Her: Women’s Stories of Resilience, which Gloria Steinem described as stories that “will help each of us to trust and tell our own.”
Elisabeth’s work with myth and memoir, the focus of her doctorate, has been spotlighted in Harvard Magazine.
For more about Elisabeth, visit her website and follow her on Instagram.
In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about how to adapt myths and fairy tales to reclaim your own life story.
Sunday Sep 08, 2024
Sunday Sep 08, 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we need to find our writing tribe.
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Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Wednesday Aug 21, 2024
Jeanne Blasberg is an award-winning and bestselling author and essayist. Her first two novels, The Nine (released in 2019) and Eden (released in 2017), were both award winners, and the third in that trilogy, Daughter of a Promise, was just released this past April.
A Smith College graduate, Jeanne was named a Southampton Writer’s Conference BookEnds Fellow in April 2021. She is both a teacher of writing and a lifetime learner and co-chairs the board of the Boston Book Festival and serves on the Executive Committee of GrubStreet, one of the country’s preeminent creative writing centers.
Jeanne also reviews contemporary fiction for the New York Journal of Books. When not in New England, she splits her time between Park City, UT, and growing organic vegetables in Verona, WI.
For more about Jeanne, visit her website and follow her on Facebook, Substack and Instagram.
In today’s conversation, we’ll be talking about the intersection of her life stage and her occupation as a farmer with her life as a writer.
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Just a few thoughts on how midlife can be our most creative stage—if we are open to it.
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Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Just a few thoughts on how I realized that I needed to "unpack" my brain from one book project before I started another.
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Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Wednesday Jun 12, 2024
Delia Ephron is a bestselling author, screenwriter, essayist, and playwright. Her novels include the New York Times bestseller Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life that came out in 2022, Siracusa, and The Lion Is In, several essay collections, and books for children and young adults.
Her movie credits include You've Got Mail, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, This is My Life, Michael, and Hanging Up. Her play, "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," written with her sister Nora Ephron (based on the book by Ilene Beckerman), ran for two years off Broadway and has been performed internationally.
For more about Delia, visit her website and follow her on X and Instagram.
In this conversation, we’ll discuss the intersection of life and the creative process: how one can affect, influence and impact the other.
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Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Just a few thoughts on why we shouldn’t confuse “I’ve never done it” with “I can’t do it.”
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