Six years and one day to the day after the very first episode, it’s time for episode 100 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, the podcast about making stuff (mostly writing), finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process.
This is a solo episode (and a car cast) in which I take stock of my own state when it comes to making stuff, finding success, and staying healthy and sane… especially compared to how that was all going when the first episode of this podcast was released one hundred episodes and six years ago.
Long-time listeners will recognize this as a return to the highly transparent, vulnerable solo episodes that were once the mainstay of this show. If these kinds of episodes appeal to you, be sure to let me know by leaving a comment!
This episode was recorded on April 29, 2024. This episode took about seven hours to record, produce, and deliver to you.
Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
- I was inspired to record this episode after going back and listening to the first and second episodes of Sonitotum.
- Guess who’s recorded 100 episodes of Sonitotum and has hypertension? This guy!
- I talk about my day job and the recent changes there. Perhaps there’s something I can help you with?
- I’ve offset the impact of those aforementioned changes by driving deliveries for the time being.
- My personal creative accomplishments since episode one of Sonitotum include:
- The novel Light of the Outsider
- The novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay”
- The non-fiction book Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure
- The novelette “Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Dragon Squidbat”
- 46 installments (60,000 words) of my free fiction serial Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started”
- …and, of course, one hundred episodes of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick
- What have I accomplished for my creator clients in the last six years?
- Produced or managed nearly a thousand podcast episodes for three clients.
- Edited, produced, and / or helped distribute two audiobooks.
- Helped bring sixteen books from eleven different authors into the world and / or to new readers.
- Created, developed, customized, or managed websites for eighteen clients.
- Provided comprehensive developmental editing services to three clients.
- I mentioned the Eisenhower Matrix, which is a visual prioritization and planning tool, and potentially throwing all things I want to do into it, and sharing that with you. I think that’s its own Scribtotum article, and perhaps a podcast episode… it’s not a small endeavor..!
- Now and then The Big Plan comes up as an object lesson in what doesn’t work for me.
- Next episode: author AJ Super.
- Big thanks to my Multiversalists patron community, including J. C. Hutchins, Zoë Kohen Ley, Jim Lewinson, Amelia Bowen, and Ted Leonhardt! I’m incredibly grateful for the support of my patrons. If Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick brings you joy, become a patron!
- Every month net earnings from my Multiversalist patron memberships is at least $100, I will donate 10% to 826 National in support of literacy and creative writing advocacy for children. Let’s go!