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In Defense of Unsatisfying Endings, featuring Zahid Rafiq 38:04

11d ago38:04

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This week’s show focuses on endings, and beginnings. Guest Zahid Rafiq, who’s written a short story collection whose endings serve the stories and his characters, speaks to how he thinks about endings, including those that others might find less than satisfying. We’re defending a particular type of ending, those in which writers may feel less than …

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Hybrid Writing for Hybrid Lives, featuring Faith Adiele 45:23

18d ago45:23

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This week’s show features guest Faith Adiele, who’s just released two chapbooks that are in conversation with one another. These books are a springboard for a conversation about hybrid writing, hybrid memoirs, the popularity of chapbooks, and hybrid forms. If you’re a writer who’s been told “you can’t do that,” this episode will be validating, if n…

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Bringing Attention, Playfulness, and Surprise to Your Writing, featuring Jeannine Ouellette 44:22

25d ago44:22

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This week guest Jeannine Ouellette returns to Write-minded to share some specific teachings and practical tips for writers who want to better curb their own impulses to tell and/or to overwrite. This episode is a little more craft-focused than we normally do, and there’s no better person than Jeannine to showcase actionable ideas and student case s…

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Drug Stories, featuring Emily Witt 43:19

1M ago43:19

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This week’s Write-minded delves into our cultural and literary relationship with drugs, examining the role drugs play in creativity and among creatives. We also look at novels and memoirs that center drugs and alcohol, and talk to author Emily Witt about her own foray into this territory with her latest memoir, Health and Safety. Join us for this i…

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Embracing Contradiction, featuring Carvell Wallace 42:02

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This week’s episode is a deep conversation that covers love, embracing contradiction, and guest Carvell Wallace’s journey to and through memoir. This is an enlightening interview for anyone who’s ever contemplated paradox, or how to tackle big, tangly ideas in your writing. Writing a memoir is an ambitious act of the heart, and we honor that journe…

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The Art of Listening, featuring Elizabeth Rosner 50:06

2M ago50:06

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This week Write-minded is exploring listening—as a practice, as an experience, as something that interacts with our writing. Guest Elizabeth Rosner’s new book is Third Ear, a book that she describes as a hybrid memoir. Listen in to find out why, to consider your own relationship with listening, and to consider all the ways that listening drives and…

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Centering Marginalized Characters in Your Fiction, featuring Barbara Ridley 41:30

2M ago41:30

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This week’s episode is inspired by guest Barbara Ridley’s new novel, Unswerving, whose central protagonist is gay and disabled. We explore the dearth of disabled characters in fiction, and hear from Barbara how choosing to write about a character who was doubly “othered” drew critiques that she was perhaps going a bridge too far. This episode exami…

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How Being Fascinated and Daunted Can Drive Your Writing, featuring Edwidge Danticat 38:14

2M ago38:14

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It could be said of this week’s guest that she, like the title of this week’s show, is fascinating and daunting. And that this is a pull toward the things we’re interested in, that we want to dive more deeply into, is the subject of this week’s show. Edwidge Danticat is a powerhouse in the literary world who’s written about immigration and poverty,…

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Episode 70: Majestic Talks (Love) & TSLE WLI Podcast Update 2:20

2M ago2:20

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What's up great family! I had the amazing opportunity to speak on Majestic Talks with Latasha Morgan, where we talked about love and forgiveness. Please, check out her website at www.majestictalks.com. You may watch the #replay here: https://fb.watch/vqBeCHNzI1/. If you need the freebies again, here you go: https://teonsingletaryuniversity.teachabl…

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Optimism and Pessimism in Book Publishing—Because It’s Always Both, featuring Michael Castleman 47:40

2M ago47:40

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As Write-minded is wont to do, we bring you another tell-it-like-it-is reality bites episode about book publishing. And while the news isn’t all good, it’s also not all bad—and guest Michael Castleman is living, breathing proof that it’s worth it, as long as you’re ready to do the work and understand what you’re getting yourself into. Join us on th…

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Season 5.17: Nurturing the Next Generation - Developing Future Leaders 6:07

2M ago6:07

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Principle 7 of the Seven Leadership Principles To Learn From an Eagle. Nurturing the Next Generation - Developing Future Leaders. This principle highlights the importance of developing and giving back to the next generation, recognizing that our youth are our future leaders. Share this episode with those who could benefit from its insights.Follow m…

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Season 5.16: Embrace Renewal - Shedding Old Habits for New Growth 5:36

2M ago5:36

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Principle 6 of the Seven Leadership Principles To Learn From an Eagle. Embrace Renewal - Shedding Old Habits for New Growth. This principle teaches us the importance of letting go of old habits and burdens that no longer serve us. Please share this episode with those who could benefit from its insights.Follow me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter …

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Writing as a Way to Champion People and Causes, featuring Maggie Tokuda-Hall 51:21

2M ago51:21

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This week’s Write-minded is a thoughtful conversation about where writers’ values meet public persona and the writing life. Guest Maggie Tokuda-Hall treats us to her thinking about career, ambition, and why she writes what subjects and characters she writes, and why she doesn’t write for adults. We get into the important topic of what’s at stake wh…

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Don’t Let Your Comfort Zone Become Your Doom Zone, featuring Joshua Mohr 43:31

3M ago43:31

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A rocking ride through punk influence on prose and story, this interview with guest Joshua Mohr is, more than anything, about pushing your limits and getting out of your comfort zone. In his new book, Saint the Terrifying, Josh does a few things he’s never tried—and he walks us through why that’s been so invigorating, and how it’s pushed his limits…

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How to Be Compulsively Readable, featuring Anne Lamott 46:24

3M ago46:24

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Anne Lamott joins Write-minded this week to talk about so many things—what she writes about; how she kills her darlings; her process with her early readers and editors; and more. On the question of being compulsively readable, she shares with us some of the ideas from Bird by Bird that have stood the test of time, why to cut your darlings, and how …

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The Era of Banning Librarians, featuring Amanda Jones 37:14

3M ago37:14

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This week, to draw attention to Banned Books Week and to stand in solidarity with publishers, authors, and all industry professionals who fight to keep diverse voices on library shelves, Write-minded features guest Amanda Jones, an educator and librarian whose book, That Librarian, is necessary reading. Amanda shares her more than two-year journey …

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The Rejection Episode, featuring Grant Faulkner and Brooke Warner 31:05

3M ago31:05

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This week’s episode is inspired by Grant’s recent rejection journey. Yes, listeners, Grant’s book about rejection has been roundly rejected—so we’re taking an excursion into the world of rejection, how we deal with it, and what some options might be for a book that doesn’t get picked up by a publisher. Grant and Brooke explore their relationship wi…

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Season 5.15: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone - The Path to Growth 6:15

4M ago6:15

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Principle 5 of the Seven Leadership Principles To Learn From an Eagle. Step Out of Your Comfort Zone - The Path to Growth. This principle teaches us that growth happens outside our comfort zones. Please share this episode with those who could benefit from its insights.Follow me on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @TeonSingletary. Visit the website …

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Unclassifiable and Uncontainable: In Celebration of Art That Can’t Be Pinned Down, featuring Brontez Purnell 45:27

4M ago45:27

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This week’s guest, Brontez Purnell, is the kind of writer who’s either hard to pin down, or just won’t be. As such, he’s inspired an episode about who gets to draw outside the lines and why in the realm of book publishing. Whether you love your lane, feel confined by your lane, or insist on busting out of your lane, we invite you to consider what i…

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Structure and Form, featuring Jane Alison 43:06

4M ago43:06

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We kick off a new season with the brilliant Jane Alison and a wide-ranging conversation about form and structure in fiction and memoir. Brooke and Grant were so inspired by Meander, Spiral, Explode, Jane’s her book about craft and the theory of writing, that this episode is dedicated to the ideas around structure and form that are at the heart of t…

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New Ways of Thinking About Memoir, featuring Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa 56:28

4M ago56:28

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For our final summer round up of our favorite shows, Write-minded chose Maggie Smith and Shze-Hui Tjoa, highlighting two bright lights in the Memoirsphere who are elevating the genre and showcasing new ways of thinking about memoir. It’s an exciting time to be a memoirist and a memoir reader, and if you missed these two interviews the first time ar…

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Fiction Outliers, featuring Rainbow Rowell and Isabel Cañas 51:11

4M ago51:11

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In celebration of the kind of fiction readers love but the industry doesn’t always know what to do with comes two past episodes honoring fan fiction and gothic fiction, respectively. Revisiting these episodes is a reminder of the vast world of fiction outside the narrow confines of upmarket or commercial or historical fiction. Our two past guests, …

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Self-Exposure and Writing the Story You Have to Write, featuring Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito 48:03

5M ago48:03

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In this second week of Write-minded’s August mashups, we bring back the heartfelt interviews with Javier Zamora and Susan Kiyo Ito, both of whom spoke so honestly and supportively about writing and sharing stories they’ve carried with them their entire lives. Javier’s harrowing journey from El Salvador to the US border when he was just nine years o…

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Wisdom from the Publishing Trenches, featuring Lisa Leshne and Kathleen Schmidt 48:16

5M ago48:16

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Every August Grant and Brooke share their summer plans and writing aspirations and hopes and fails, along with some mashups of their favorite interviews of the year. Write-minded kicks off this best-of series with two beloved industry experts—agent Lisa Leshne and publicist Kathleen Schmidt. There’s real wisdom and straight-talk in these conversati…

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Getting Reinspired after Failed or Abandoned Book Projects, featuring Paolo Bacigalupi 48:20

5M ago48:20

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Most writers either have or will have a failed or abandoned book project—or two, or three, or four—over the course of their lifetimes. The more you write, the more crisis moments you’ll face. It can be hard to come back from those moments, which is why this week’s episode with Paolo Bacigalupi is so encouraging. He shares with us his journey back f…

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Season 5.14: Embrace the Storm - Turning Challenges into Opportunities 3:55

5M ago3:55

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Principle 4 of the Seven Leadership Principles To Learn From an Eagle. Embrace the Storm - Turning Challenges into Opportunities. This principle teaches us to face challenges head-on and use them as opportunities for growth and elevation. Please share this episode with those who could benefit from its insights. Follow me on Facebook, Instagram, and…

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Being a Voice for Causes That Matter, featuring Naomi Klein 1:01:59

5M ago1:01:59

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This week’s episode airs Brooke in conversation with Naomi Klein at this year’s Bay Area Book Festival. While this interview does not hew to Write-minded’s effort to offer weekly doses of inspiration for writers, Brooke and Grant decided to make this available both because our listeners requested it and because we admire the work Naomi Klein is doi…

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How Secrets Fuel Memoir Writing, featuring Margaret Juhae Lee 40:03

6M ago40:03

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Secrets come in all forms, big and small. We inherit secrets, carry the secrets of others, and struggle with the burden of all they hold and how they sometimes fester within us. This week’s episode with guest Margaret Juhae Lee explores the difference between people who want to keep the past buried and those who want to set it free. We explore inte…

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