Simmering Down with Sarah Smith – Writescast 098

Six years after The Writescast Network came to an end, Ryan R. Campbell returns to share the first episode of his new podcast, R: On Everything. We're frequently told that new technologies, business models, and ways of working are inevitable, that the future has already been decided and our only choice is to adapt. But what happens when inevitable stops being a description and becomes an argument? In The Gospel of Inevitability, Ryan examines how narratives of inevitability discourage us from questioning who shapes the future, who benefits from it, and what alternatives remain possible. More importantly, he considers what we lose when we surrender our sense of agency before change has even arrived. R: On Everything features thoughtful explorations at the intersection of technology, work, creativity, and culture. Subscribe to R: On Everything wherever you listen to podcasts, or learn more at r-on-everything.com. Onward, upward, and keep curious.

Ten years after the first episode of the R.R. Campbell Writescast—and six years after The Writescast Network came to an end—Ryan R. Campbell returns to the microphone. R: On Everything is a new podcast featuring thoughtful explorations at the intersection of technology, work, creativity, and culture. It follows the threads connecting the forces reshaping our lives and asks what they mean for our agency, our communities, and the world we are building together. The first episodes of R: On Everything arrive beginning Thursday, September 17. Writescast listeners will also be able to hear the show’s first episode, The Gospel of Inevitability, right here in this feed. Subscribe to R: On Everything wherever you listen to podcasts, or learn more at r-on-everything.com. Onward, upward, and keep curious.

Okay, so this isn't the final conversation I'll ever have with Dan Schiro, but it is the final conversation to be broadcast by the Writescast Network.

For the penultimate episode of Writescast Network programming, I'm joined by an avid reader who just so happens to be my wife. Over the course of our discussion, we chat about what gets her to pick a book off a shelf, what keeps her engrossed while reading, and what will have her shelving a book just as fast as she picked it up.

Sarah Smith joins the show to discuss her most recent release, SIMMER DOWN, along with what got her into writing romance in the first place, among other topics.

Author M.A. Hinkle discusses the importance of separating one's personal identity from one's writerly self, as well as how writers can go about surviving the, well, gestures broadly, we confront on a daily basis.

Dr. Lindsay Weisner discusses her ten steps for finding happiness while pursuing one's creative endeavors.

After an important update on the future of the Writescast Network from host r.r. campbell, Writers' Institute Director Laurie Scheer returns to the show to discuss the dissolution of the University of Wisconsin's Continued Studies in Writing program.

How can we keep readers on their toes? What writing exercises can you do to keep those readers tiptoeing about your pages? In this episode, Ekta Garg explores just that with help from Nick Spalding's LOGGING OFF.

Go ahead: judge a book by its cover. With author and marketer Carol VanDenHende's five principles for book cover design, you'll better understand what makes for a quality cover and how you can be a more constructive participant in the cover design process.