The Write Attention Podcast

The Write Attention

The Write Attention is a podcast where we explore the questions and challenges we are paying attention to in our journey as emerging writers.

  1. 02/11/2025

    The Pace of Creativity

    Multi-disciplinary musician and artist, Drew “Hondo” Felder, joins Brittany and Jeannetta for Episode 6. Drew "Hondo" Felder is a true multidisciplinary artist who has written fiction for over 25 years and played music professionally for 15. Throughout his artistic journey, he has composed and played parts for other artists; created themes and sound design for short films, games, and commercials; and is currently the bassist of two all original bands. Audio engineering is among his other pursuits both live and in the studio. Outside of music, Drew is also honing his skills in videography, motion graphics, and video post-production. Combining many of these skills, he started his own Youtube channel, Hondo Felder Music and supports other artists and content creators with the technical side of the media creation process. You can follow him on Instagram @hondofelder. The group   discuss pacing and time across music and writing. The discuss how time is expressed within and outside the work, how to incorporate tension and dissonance and the relationship between a work’s purpose and pacing.    Edward P Jones,  “The First Day”, Lost in the City  “Purple Rain”, Prince “Stakes is High”, De La Soul and “Stakes is High”, Robert Glasper + Mos Def Chris Dave, drummer  Derrick Hodge, bass player Matt Bell,  Refuse to Be Done Max Gladstone, Amal El-Mohtar, This is How You Lose the Time War  Sarah J Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses Series Karen E. Binder, “Adjusting Your Pace: How to Get  A Story to Move”, https://electricliterature.com/adjusting-your-pace-how-to-get-a-story-to-move/  Game of Thrones  James Kaplan, 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool

    1h 9m
  2. Breaking Down the Structure of Your Writing

    12/25/2024

    Breaking Down the Structure of Your Writing

    In episode 5: Breaking Down the Structure of Your Writing, Brittany and Jeannetta discuss structure with the first chapter of Jane Alison’s Meander, Spiral, Explode, “Point, Line and Texture”, as their guide. They discuss Alison’s framework for looking at structure, which proposes to look at the sounds and textures of words and sentences and how form follows content. They also explore how they have used structure in their own writing and the possibilities for disruption that structure offers. Notes Shonda Rhimes universe!  Bridgerton (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8740790/) , Scandal (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1837576/), etc! Franz Kafka on his request to burn his work: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/magazine/26kafka-t.html  The Artists Way by Julia Cameron, https://www.google.com/search?q=the+artists+way&oq=the+artists+way&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIJCAEQLhgKGIAEMgkIAhAAGAoYgAQyCQgDEC4YChiABDIJCAQQLhgKGIAEMgkIBRAAGAoYgAQyCQgGEAAYChiABDIJCAcQABgKGIAEMgkICBAAGAoYgATSAQg0NjQxajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8  Charles Johnson, The Way of The Writer Matt Bell, “Syntatic Symbolism”, https://mattbell.substack.com/p/exercise-20-syntactic-symbolism  David Foster Wallace, “Forever Overhead”, can be read here: https://biblioklept.org/2014/09/01/forever-overhead-david-foster-wallace/ Kathy Winograd,  https://kathrynwinograd.com/  Mathangi Subramanian, https://www.mathangisubramanian.com/about  Dorte Nors, https://www.dorthenors.dk/  D’Angelou, “Untitled” Tao Lin, Shoplifting in American Apparel, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6096464-shoplifting-from-american-apparel  George Saunders, Story Club Substack available here: https://georgesaunders.substack.com/  Episode S2E3, Emotional Beats, with Kara Smith, accessible here: https://writeattention.podbean.com/e/emotional-beats-part-2/  Witches by Brenda Lozano, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59892323-witches

    56 min
  3. 05/15/2024

    The Many Faces of Style

    In episode 3, season 2 of The Write Attention podcast Brittany and Jeannetta discuss style in light of Miciah Bay Gault’s craft essay on style (link below) and the influence our real and adopted selves have on the form and content of the work we create. They jointly work on the exercise offered in Gault’s essay to write on loss in the style of another writer.   Craft essay referenced in this episode is “I Craft Therefore I am Creating Persona Through Syntax and Style” by Miciah Bay Gault, accessible here: https://hungermtn.org/i-craft-therefore-i-am-creating-persona-through-syntax-and-style/ Kurt Vonnegut essay on style, https://kmh-lanl.hansonhub.com/pc-24-66-vonnegut.pdf  John Keene, https://lithub.com/john-keene-elements-of-literary-style/  Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon James Baldwin,  Giovanni’s Room, Another Country George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain Poor Things, https://www.searchlightpictures.com/poor-things/  The Lobster, https://a24films.com/films/the-lobster  Lighthouse classes can be found here: The Earley Scale, check out more about it here: https://brevitymag.com/craft-essays/going-cold/ Mark Doty, The Art of Description: World into Word Donna Tartt  The Write Attention S2E2 with Amelia Ihshak, The Emerging Reader in All of Us, https://writeattention.podbean.com/e/the-emerging-reader-in-all-of-us/  Ward Farnsworth, Classical English Style, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/49831663  William Carlos Williams Lidia Yuknavitch Corporeal Writing: https://www.corporealwriting.com/about-corporeal and https://youtu.be/o9pUjixyWI4?si=4u4VaF4gE_N3yYsT Toni Ann Johnson Jhumpa Lahiri, The Interpreter of Maladies

    1 hr
  4. 03/09/2024

    The Emerging Reader in All of Us

    Brittany and Jeannetta welcome Amelia Louise Herridge Ishak to the podcast to discuss reading as a writer. Amelia comes from London, England and has an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic and moved to Aarhus, Denmark hunting for viking myths and monsters. Norse mythology and the rawness of Scandinavian nature inspires her work. She joined the Aarhus Women Write in 2017 and took over the running of it in 2020. The three discuss early childhood reading interests and how that has influenced their writing today, what genres and styles inspire them and the other reasons why they read besides pleasure or craft.  Amelia's piece which is shared on the podcast, "The Hidden Spirit of the Forest" is available in Meet me at 19th St available here: https://archstreetpress.org/2021/11/02/the-hidden-spirit-of-the-forest/.    Questions How much has your childhood reading interests influenced the way you write or the topics you write about?  How much have your reading habits changed since becoming a writer? Do you read more around the genres and styles you write in? Do you write in the style and genres you read in? Is this different to when you were younger/before you became a writer? We often hear how other writers inspire or influence other writers in a positive way, but what are some things that you have read where you have thought "I never want to write like that" and learnt what not to do?  Besides pleasure and improvement of your craft (which are some of the reasons I read) what are some other reasons you read? As a follow up to #1, what are the other ways reading has improved your creative practice besides the writing itself? (related to your question #2)?  References in this Episode Learn more about Aarhus Women Writers here https://www.instagram.com/aarhuswomenwrite?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==  The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin Throne of Glass, A Court of Thorns and Roses, and Crescent City series by Sarah J Maas Jane Austin Elizabeth Gaskill Margaret Atwood Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne du Maurier Wuthering Heights by Emile Brontë Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkein Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë Log in to the Libby App through your local library here: https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby   “Beauty and the Beast” by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern Read Angela Carters’ (not Chambers…lol) reinterpretation of fairy tales in The Bloody Chamber Popisho by Leone Ross The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk “A Temporary Matter” by Jhumpa Lahiri in The Interpeter of Maladies Charles Dickens Episode 1 of Season 1 of The Write Attention, “Show Tell and Practice”, https://writeattention.podbean.com/e/show-tell-practice/  Episode 9 of Season 1 of The Write Attention, “Personal Revelation & Reader Responsibility” with  guest Collette Walker, https://writeattention.podbean.com/e/personal-revelation-audience-responsibility/  The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

    1h 4m

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The Write Attention is a podcast where we explore the questions and challenges we are paying attention to in our journey as emerging writers.