writinglife – Page 2 – Musings of a Generic Asian

$30 gift card #giveaway by #ArtsyRaven #podcast guest #MayaSvevak, #writing, #writinglife, #publishing

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The second episode of The Artsy Raven podcast features Maya Svevak, a scientist, lawyer, activist and author of Svevi Avatar: Persecution of Constantina. She shares with us what inspired her to create a fantasy world in her series of books which take place in an alternate timeline where European colonization didn’t happen. Her world explores the 7 core ecosocial (ecological + social) issues of our time which include issues related to: indigenous peoples, environment, identity, gender violence, capitalism, health, and culture. She also shares writing tips, how she published her books and the collaborative relationship she has with her team of artists.

Link to listen to the podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Kgj96vRR9B6kczMhgjtkQ

Link to listen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcntlRlmdW2nzFZnzq2dA_Q

Her book is launching March 20, 2021 and to celebrate, she is offering The Artsy Raven listeners a chance to win a $30USD Amazon gift card to use to buy her book.

Click here to enter the free giveaway between March 20-25, 2021: https://kingsumo.com/g/nsnpof/maya-svevak-amazon-gift-card-giveaway

March 19 – #WriteRice session with #VincentTernida coming up: What is the difference between #shortstories, #novels and #poetry? #writinglife #ricepapermagazine #acww #canlit

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Write-Rice is an Asian Writers support group which gathers once a month. It’s an informal session in which a host leads a conversation aimed to improve the craft of writing. It’s also a place for people to share things they have experienced in their writing careers and to help each other do better as writers. While it’s aimed at Asian writers, it is an inclusive group and everyone is welcomed to join in!

On March 19, Vincent Ternida will be leading the discussion on what is the difference between short stories, novels and poetry. Some writers can create all of these forms of writing and it’s truly a gift to be able to do so! Vincent made the short list for the CBC Fiction prize before and he is an excellent writer. He will be sharing a lot of knowledge and it’s also a chance to ~~interrogate,~~ er, ask him questions!

This session is free and will require Zoom registration, visit the main website for details: https://ricepapermagazine.ca/writerice/

Live on #Spotify, Ep 1 of the #ArtsyRaven! #ChrisGorman, #fantasy #writer, shares his #writing tips and reads from Dawn of Magic!

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The first episode of The Artsy Raven podcast is live! It’s available on Spotify and YouTube at the moment. Anchor will be sending out the podcast to other channels as well, but it’s still early so the computers are all talking to each other and negotiating, I presume. Bonus content about the secrets of success from the guests for each episode is available exclusively on Patreon.

We had a tiny party with myself, my husband and my little one because of COVID and we didn’t feel comfortable asking people over to our tiny apartment. The cake was baked by Ginny who is fighting on Food Network’s Great Chocolate Showdown and it is a chocolate cake. She said all sorts of fancy words like “caramel something” and “ganache something,” I will have to ask her for exact terms before I post about the specifics of the cake! But it was yummy, that’s the important part!

Chris Gorman, the first guest on The Artsy Raven, has been recording the Words with Writers podcast for a while now and he was the most prepared guest. I had sent him questions and he actually wrote out almost every word he was going to say and even practiced reading the entire transcript to note his speaking time! Of course when we actually did the recording, we interjected impromptu things and I had to cut him off from answering three questions or else we would go overtime.

It’s a bit frightening how fast the podcast went up after the files were ready for uploading. With the click of a button, it was live on Spotify/YouTube and I could see it in the search engines when I look for it. Editing the podcast took a few hours in comparison and I hope in the future I can produce these episodes faster as I become more experienced. At the moment I’ve booked a lot of “local” guests and the challenge in the future is asking “strangers” to come onto the show. I feel I need to have a few more episodes up before approaching big potatoes to come onto the show.

Forward and onwards!

Scheming and planning for The Artsy Raven Podcast where writers are the superstars!

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Everyday I turn down the chance to promote authors 99% of the time because the magazines I work with have limited capacity for interview pieces. As an author I know that writing is hard work and marketing is even harder. For a long time I pondered how to help these people and finally I decided I should launch a podcast with the writers as superstars!

Whenever I finish listening to an author interview on a podcast, I often want to hear them read. So I thought why not? Let’s make a show to interview authors and then ask them to do a reading!

In parallel my husband is bugging me about how come I didn’t earn enough as a writer and publisher to pay the accountant in 2020. I had thought about Patreon in the past but a combination of self-doubt and imposter syndrome led me to not do it. Under some buckling pressure, I decided to launch my own Patreon page and made an account on Ko-Fi (digital coffee) to hit the goal of paying the accountant next year. I can do a lot of things, but accounting ain’t one of them!

I don’t know if this podcast will succeed or fail. But I am ordering a small cake for the podcast launch from Ginny who is competing on “The Great Chocolate Showdown” on The Food Network Canada right now so at the very least I will have dessert. What’s another five pounds on top of my already gained COVID weight?!

As Lao Tzu said, “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

As my mom says (whenever I start a crowd funding endeavor), “I will give you money, stop groveling and stop writing!” If this was about money, I would have taken her up on her offer a long time ago.

Meanwhile we did make an awesome trailer for The Artsy Raven, please have a look! And so we begin another adventure…