QWERTY Writing Life Podcast

Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith wrap up Season 5 with a grateful and reflective look back and a huge announcement for the future of QWERTY Writing Life Podcast. You will want to catch the news and find out what’s next for the QWERTYs and their friends. Check out the links referenced in the show: Joy’s LAM Summer Reading Challenge: https://joyerancatore.com/summer-reading/ [https://joyerancatore.com/summer-reading/] Learn more about their book on writing critique partners, Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers [https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers] Berries, Bridges and Books Conference: https://cmwriters.wixsite.com/creativemindswriters/conference [https://cmwriters.wixsite.com/creativemindswriters/conference] QWERTY Writing Life Season 1, Episode 21, “Allowing Faith in Your Art”: https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-jmr7a-c0a873 [https://www.podbean.com/eu/pb-jmr7a-c0a873] Subscribe to the QWERTY’s monthly newsletter (be sure to click the box next to “opt in to receive news and updates” and check your spam for the confirmation email): https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5 [https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5] Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife [https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife] Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/ [https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/] Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith. Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about the QWERTYs, the show and their writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com [https://qwertywritinglife.com]. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see their grinning faces, ring the bell on their YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net [https://storyswell.net]. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com [http://www.joyerancatore.com].

Author Joy E. Rancatore muses on the might of mindset in this special QWERTY interview with a creative. Mea Smith asks Joy clarifying and deepening questions to dive well below the surface of the topic and prompts her to share a special QWERTY challenge with listeners. Tune in to be challenged, enlightened and motivated.    Check out the links referenced in the show: Learn more about their book on writing critique partners, Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers [https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers] Orna Ross’ three-hat mindset: https://ornaross.com/from-orna/indie-authors-three-hats/ [https://ornaross.com/from-orna/indie-authors-three-hats/] Interview with a Creative: Mea Smith: Creativity and Our Worth Episode Link: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/interview-with-a-creative-mea-smith-creativity-and-our-worth/ [https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/interview-with-a-creative-mea-smith-creativity-and-our-worth/]YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/rkqe5Cqo_1w [https://youtu.be/rkqe5Cqo_1w] Subscribe to the QWERTY’s monthly newsletter (be sure to click the box next to “opt in to receive news and updates” and check your spam for the confirmation email): https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5 [https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5] Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife [https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife] Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/ [https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/] Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith. Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about the QWERTYs, the show and their writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com [https://qwertywritinglife.com]. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see their grinning faces, ring the bell on their YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net [https://storyswell.net]. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com [http://www.joyerancatore.com].

Author Mea Smith discusses her journey through determining her worth and shares epiphanies about how it connects to creativity in this special QWERTY interview with a creative. Joy E. Rancatore asks Mea foundational and process questions and prompts her to share a special QWERTY challenge with listeners. Tune in to be inspired, enlightened and uplifted.  Check out the episode about Mea’s poetry book referenced in the show: QWERTY Writing Life, Season 2, Episode 47: “A Poetic Arc: The Birth of a Poetry Book”: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/a-poetic-arc-the-birth-of-a-poetry-book/ [https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/a-poetic-arc-the-birth-of-a-poetry-book/] Subscribe to the QWERTY’s monthly newsletter (be sure to click the box next to “opt in to receive news and updates” and check your spam for the confirmation email): https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5 [https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5] Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife [https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife] Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/ [https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/] Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith. Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about the QWERTYs, the show and their writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com [https://qwertywritinglife.com]. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see their grinning faces, ring the bell on their YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net [https://storyswell.net]. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com [http://www.joyerancatore.com].

Authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith dispel negative emotions toward motivation in the creative life for Episode 15 in Season 5 of QWERTY Writing Life. They present a QWERTY theory about the aspects of motivation and two QWERTY-identified types of motivation. Personal examples from their recent creative lives show how they arrived at this candid chat. And, they end with ten observations about motivation and a practical implementation that flows into the QWERTY Challenge.    Check out the links referenced in the show: Mea’s poetry book, Grief Like a River: https://storyswell.net/books [https://storyswell.net/books] Learn more about their book on writing critique partners, Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers [https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers] Subscribe to the QWERTY’s monthly newsletter (be sure to click the box next to “opt in to receive news and updates” and check your spam for the confirmation email): https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5 [https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5] Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife [https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife] Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/ [https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/] Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith. Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about the QWERTYs, the show and their writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com [https://qwertywritinglife.com]. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see their grinning faces, ring the bell on their YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net [https://storyswell.net]. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com [http://www.joyerancatore.com].

Recently, authors Joy E. Rancatore and Mea Smith met with a group of writers on a college campus. One of the students asked a question that has spurred ongoing conversation between Mea and Joy … and this episode! “What is your motivation to publish? What keeps your butt in the chair to finish a project and get it out there?” Listen in as Joy and Mea share specific answers to how they achieved publication of some of their books as well as more general reasons behind why they choose to share in the first place. They close out with a short but deep QWERTY Challenge that can help you answer these questions in your creative life. Check out the links referenced in the show: Mea’s poetry book, Grief Like a River: https://storyswell.net/books [https://storyswell.net/books] Learn more about their book on writing critique partners, Finders Keepers: A Practical Approach to Find and Keep Your Writing Critique Partner: https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers [https://www.logosandmythospress.com/finders-keepers] Joy’s book Any Good Thing: https://joyerancatore.com/any-good-thing/ [https://joyerancatore.com/any-good-thing/] QWERTY Writing Life Podcast, Season 5, Episode 12, “Balancing Vulnerability and Memories in Art”: https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/balancing-vulnerability-and-memories-in-art/ [https://qwertywritinglife.podbean.com/e/balancing-vulnerability-and-memories-in-art/] Subscribe to the QWERTY’s monthly newsletter (be sure to click the box next to “opt in to receive news and updates” and check your spam for the confirmation email): https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5 [https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/z9f1z5] Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife [https://www.facebook.com/qwertywritinglife] Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/ [https://www.instagram.com/qwertywritinglife/] Intro music created and performed by Brent Smith. Continue this week’s chat via email at qwertywritinglife [at] gmail [dot] com. For more information about the QWERTYs, the show and their writing craft book series, head over to https://qwertywritinglife.com [https://qwertywritinglife.com]. Subscribe in your favorite podcast portal. Or, if you’d rather see their grinning faces, ring the bell on their YouTube channel. Please share our podcast with your friends, too! For more about Mea and her writing, visit storyswell.net [https://storyswell.net]. Joy and her details can be found at joyerancatore.com [http://www.joyerancatore.com].