Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates

Hang out with me in a park in the gloaming (and the wind, it turns out, and the helicopters and airplanes) for the fourth episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, a podcast in which tales of one particular ongoing creative life might just have something useful for your own. In this episode, I elaborate on the burnout I mentioned in the previous episode, and go into depth on the mindset, tactics, and strategy I’m employing on a daily basis to climb out of that charred and sooty trench. This episode was recorded on August 1, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podcastersMy fiction and non-fictionBorders Books and MusicFranklin / Covey plannersomething to be said for paperStephen CoveyBenjamin Franklin’s thirteen virtuesBoox Note Airyoga nidraUnreal EnginePixel 9aSupport the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.

Time for another episode of my occasional podcast, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates! This episode, another car-cast, was recorded directly into my Pixel 9A phone, and… I’m on-camera! Don’t worry; I wasn’t driving and filming. These episodes, just like episodes of my previous podcast, Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, have been uploaded to YouTube all along, but all audio-only. Why get on camera now? Doesn’t that run counter to my goal of turning on a mic, talking, and taking the path of least resistance toward getting it out to you? It doesn’t have to. I talk about it in the episode. I also touch on my professional and creative burn-out, and hint that I’ve begun to take steps to gradually and — this is important — intentionally pull myself out of it. The details of those steps will be in future episodes. My hope is that what I’m figuring out will help you, too. Episode Naming I’ve had second thoughts about how to name each episode. When you’ve only released three episodes in five months, there’s room to play around. As you’ve heard (or maybe saw) this episode, I’m maybe-probably making the YouTube edition of this podcast on-camera. Which means treating it in a way that’s YouTube-friendly. Which means assigning a more meaningful title than simply the date. So! The new naming convention will be the date, a dash, and something pithy to describe the episode. The file name will be mwsc_###_###.mp3, with the first three digits being the episode number and the second three digits being the in-total number representing all of the podcasts I’ve recorded and released. And the URL slug will be similar, but with dashes instead of underscores. I’m putting this down here for the real sticklers, and so I have a place to check in case I don’t remember when next episode rolls around. This episode was recorded on July 25, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podcastersTribe of MentorsPixel 9aSupport the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.

Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is my audio journal as an independent author, creator, and creative services provider. In this episode, the subject is changing mailing list service providers, and how the process revealed two personality / psychological traits of mine that might benefit from a closer look… This episode was recorded on April 13, 2025, in the mobile studio of MWS Media in and around Huntington Beach, California. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode KitNathan Barryhis podcastSendyAmazon’s Simple Email ServiceMauticMailerLiteSeth Godin’s “people like us…” essayJoin the Multiversalists communitySupport the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin, who joined in the days between recording this episode and typing these words. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.

Here it is, folks: the inauspicious debut of my latest podcast, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates. What is This? I talked about it in Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 107. This new show is my platform to simply… talk to you. Mostly about creating and the creative life as I (attempt to) live it, and so, mostly, to do with writing. But not just about those things. Which was one of the issues that kept me from recording and releasing Sonitotum episodes: the scope of that show was “making stuff, finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process.” What if I wanted to talk about stuff that might only be charitably described as adjacent to that mission..? Another thing keeping me from podcasting was available time. So you’ll hear that Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is… stripped down. It’s almost only every going to be just me, talking to you. I don’t want to take the time for intro music, or interstitials, or bed music, or any of that stuff that requires extra effort and takes extra time. The idea is to come as close as possible to just turning on a mic and talking, and then taking the path of least resistance toward getting it out to you. Episode Naming Because there’s really no set topic for each episode, the naming convention is a little different, too. This is an audio journal. So each episode will be “The Year-The Month Date.” For example, this episode was recorded on two different days, so it’s called “2025-02 23 and 25.” The file name for the MP3 file will be mwsc_###_###.mp3, in which the first three-digit set is the episode number, and the second set is the total number of podcast episodes I’ve released. This episode was recorded on February 23 and 25, 2025. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode becoming a patron memberThe lavalier microphone used to record this episode.“The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay”“The World Revolves Around You”“The News from Bewilder Pond”“Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf”“Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Dragon Squidbat”“Cloak”My creative services for authors and podcastersSupport the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, and thank you to David Mackler. This episode has extra content only available for patron members of the Multiversalists community! If you're a patron member at the Bronze level or above, please log in! Click here to learn more about the benefits of membership. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.