Last week on Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, we talked about how to fail. Let’s give equal time to how to succeed this time around.
Sonitotum is all about making things, finding success as we each define it, and staying healthy and sane in the process. To find success as we each define it, we have to understand what it’s going to take for us to succeed.
While the specific details are going to be unique to each of us, the secret of success is both simple… and diabolically difficult.
In this episode, by relating my own quest to understand what success means to me and what it’s going to take for me to have a chance achieving success, I offer suggestions for what might work for you, too.
Some of the links and topics mentioned in this episode include…
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The Music!
The opening theme song of Sonitotum is “Anastasia” written, performed, and recorded by yours truly, Matthew Wayne Selznick. You can hear or buy the full song on YouTube, Spotify, Amazon.com, iTunes, or just about anywhere you can buy or stream music online.
The closing and interstitial music is a little ditty I call “Gwinton,” also by yours truly, Matthew Wayne Selznick. It’s super-short and really just a looping thing, so it’s not available outside of the show.
On both songs, I play a 1972 Gibson Ripper bass guitar and a Fender “Bullet” Squire electric guitar. On “Anastasia,” the drums are performed on an Akai Professional MPD218 MIDI drum pad controller. For “Gwinton,” the drums are royalty-free loops found in the excellent Mixcraft Pro Studio software, which was also used to record, mix, and master both “Anastasia” and “Gwinton.”
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Creative writers and other creators: who cares about your work? What happens when the answer takes everyone by surprise? That's in Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick episode 032.
