In episode 056 of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, I’m inspired to remind myself (and you!) that creativity neither benefits from suffering, nor need wait for suffering to pass.

Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode

• There are new words written on Shadow of the Outsider, the follow up to my previous novel Light of the Outsider and the novelette “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay.” Huzzah!
• Hazy Days and Cloudy Nights: “How It All Got Started” is my fiction serial set in the 1980s and delivered weekly, for free, to subscribers. Get in on it and start at the beginning!
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• My latest non-fiction book is Indie Author Marketing Infrastructure, a distillation of some of what I teach when I coach new writers considering self-publishing.
• There are a ton of articles on the benefits of eliminating processed sugar from your diet. Here’s one.
• Does the brain really clean itself while we sleep? Check this out.
• I once made a Big Plan, which I link here as an example of why we, perhaps, should not do so… or at the very least, not judge ourselves when… something something asunder. Coincidentally,  the release of this episode of Sonitotum is exactly two years to the day after I posted The Big Plan! Yikes!
  • To be fair to myself, that Scribtotum article is about a lot more than dates and deadlines, and it’s worth revisiting. Which I will, in the next episode of this podcast, and in a new article.
• Does creativity benefit from suffering? Alice Walker and the Dalai Lama might beg to differ.  So might Elizabeth Gilbert, and she would know.
• This episode’s main topic was inspired by something C.S. Lewis once told an audience, which I discovered in the always wonderful blog Marginalia.
• I continue to read Natalie Goldberg’s memoir Long Quiet Highway, and it continues to feed my soul and help me create. Give it a shot.
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