The Writing Record

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Here's a few things on my mind and some links to get the creative brain jumpstarted:

• Norm Macdonald passed this week, and it's a bummer.
• …

Hi there,

Here's a few things that jumpstarted my creativity this week:

• The Matrix Resurrection trailer is here! A few thoughts about it as well as …

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Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Mervyn McManus' death. I found out about it on the anniversary of his passing. He was a musician I found on myspace long ago. I wanted to share a few words and …

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Here we go!

Let's talk about the following 3 links, because they inspired me plenty.

• Teslabot announced.
• Celebrating portraitist Hung …

Hi there, here's a rant for creatives!

I talk about my love and hesitation to collaborate with technology.

I wonder if the Storybot Writing Prompt App

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Welcome to the new and improved Writing Record! I feel there is purpose in the air. Check it out!

I'd like to share a lesson about not deleting your super important files. Unless you're looking to have an …

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I am pleased to announce Arts Calling is now available! A new podcast to celebrate creatives across disciplines and cultural backgrounds, …

Okay, here’s a long overdue Writing Record about where I’ve been the last month. My sincere apologies for the delays on the current projects. I hope …

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• Today I'm talking to myself about my first #pitmad event on Twitter.
• This leads me to wonder whether what publication means to me now.
• …

Happy Memorial Day Weekend!

So here we are friends, I am relieved to be done with the week:

• Schedule change threw me for a loop and it seems the …

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I'm trying something new. Episode 1 of what may become a limited series in the next week or so. Today I have the pleasure of chatting with my pal Trevor Lutz about life, the cosmos, and how he approaches his …

Lunchbreak episode where I decided to experiment with Bandlab during a podcast session, to test out a feature on my Zoom L8. And so today you get a …

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I'd like to talk to you about a few things:

-How this audio play is helping me discover my writing stasis. -Every day poetry is helping me get through busy days once again. -Maybe it's time to start planning …

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I am working on an interactive audio drama, so I was thinking of spectacle this week. Specifically, I was thinking of how its tools can …

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This week I've been haunted by Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness. It is a masterful documentary on the aftermath of the oil fields in …

Hi there, let's talk and reminisce from the heart:

• Today I finished the draft of Erin's audio monologue!
• Is it me, or do you have to eat a big bowl …

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I'm testing the Zoom L8 to look into podcasting in our living room. I ran the file through noise reduction through Audacity a few times for minimal post and this is what we got. We'll see what the living room …

Whoa I'm back at it again!

Thanks for your patience as I come out of this allergy fog to start recording again!

I want to talk to you about my close call during our recent snowstorm, our toilet deciding to ruin …

Back at it again. Moving forward with audio only versions of these ramblings. I meditate on my hesitation to keep growing the Write/Rec Lab. I am relieved to vent about this, because I don't want to let any of my …

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I recorded an episode last week but I hated doing it on my phone (now posted on youtube), so here's a better recap of 2020, what I've learned three months into the Write/Rec Lab, as well as some words of …

Hello friends, here's what I was reminded of this week:

• This week I challenged my workflow. It is hard to impose or question the way you do things, …

Hello all!

Welcome to The Writing Record, a creative journal in podcast form where I share lessons I am learning along the way as a working class creative. I am here to write, record, and remind you that I believe in …

Came down with something early last week and it derailed my podcasting plans. Feeling a bit better, so here's this week's show a few days late!

On this one I'm talking to myself about being accommodating to my awesome …

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If you hate listening, it's cool, here's the what I've learned this week:

• Projects may be postponed, things may take longer than you …

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I recorded this on Friday 10.16.20 because the schedule was a little wonky, but alas. I've had a week of deep thought and realignment. Have …

Happy Monday folks!

Here's a fresh rambling on the most recent barriers to creativity. Also, I don't want to do a video version of The Writing Record …

Trying out video once again for this episode of the Writing Record, if you want to subscribe to our podcast, https://idlewy.blog/the-writing-record/

Thanks!

j

Experiment time! I recorded a video episode! You should probably watch it instead as I am not sure if the audio only version makes sense on its own, …

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Please forgive the allergy voice, I am working on getting that taken care of. I just had such a great week and weekend that I couldn't …

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Here's what's coming. I'm excited.

https://idlewy.blog/2020/09/11/music-and-bootstraps/

Hello all!

Hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend! If you don't want to listen, here's what I am affirming for myself today:

• Bite-size projects …

I love it when this podcast becomes a confessional. It has helped me sort a few things over the last couple of months, and hopefully, it will help …

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Some off the cuff thoughts about my week off and how it helps to just calibrate what's important in life and art.

• Creative Community is …

• I cut down the children's book to 1000 words!

• I am humbled and grateful by this project.

• I'm tired, but I won Monday.

Much love,

j

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Happy Monday All!

Come along as I discuss a few attempts at self care this past week, as well as the tangle of projects in need of problem solving. …

The hardest part about opening up about writing and how I problem solve, is finding the humility to vocalize my errors out loud. That's why I'm …

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• I wanted to breakdown a massive breakthrough I had while writing the third draft of my children's book from scratch once again. I talk …

• I talk about this old script I brought back from the dead and submitted to a competition. You learn a lot about how far you've come when you …

Hello,

I had something come up and I am working on it:

• Reformatting my play "Videotape or Lupe at the End of the World" for a play contest.

• Etc.

I had a fun filled weekend:

• Massive road block with Charlie Bird, should have googled it sooner.

• Poetry breakthrough

• Rode Podcasting …

Can you tell I'm home? I get to record at lunch with ease, so many episodes!

• Typing up Charlie Bird from the handwritten draft.

• Publishing …

I forgot a few things about this weekend:

• Poetry Rejections, keeping me humble and putting me in the right path to learn what poetry actually is …

• Poetry Chapbook Progress. I took this week to gather my poems to put together a chapbook to self-publish. It was time.

• Billy Collins Masterclass. …

• While the children's book draft is in the rearview mirror, I take to assembling my first chapbook to self-publish!

• Starting to keep an eye out …

I finished the draft of the children's book the day I recorded the previous episode. Now what?

• Drafts to make the text amazing.

• Must find an …

• Charlie Bird is coming along! Theme is a naturally occurring thing.

• A memory of when I didn't recognize my Dad when I was six.

• The things I do …

• Testing my "cost-effective" lavalier mic for my ipod, so I can record on the go!

• First project on the list: Charlie Bird: A Children's Book for …

5.18.2020