Casualty of Words

Of trees, seeds, and rejection. Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Social Media: @BrendanOMeara --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

What Scottie Pippen can teach you about what NOT to do in memoir. Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Social Media: @BrendanOMeara --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Color coding a piece shows off its structural parts. Lee Gutkind's "yellow test" Kim H. Cross Social Media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Permanently blaze the trail, and leave the tool behind. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal prompt: You're on the cover of a magazine. What are you famous for? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hat tips to Kevin Wilson and Bronwen Dickey. Social Media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal Prompt: Don't forget my son, to include everyone. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The easy answer, don't read them, but ... Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal prompt: I'm your pain when you can't feel. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The incredible power of leaving review, a writer's duty. Allison K. Williams' post on reviews for Brevity. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal prompt: It's not who you are, it's who you know. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Just ask the question. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal Prompt: Never shine through what I've shown. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The choreography of those with more status and those without it is all around us. Check out Seth Godin's Akimbo Ep. 2 on status roles. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Maybe It's Time to Delete Our Social Media Accounts Social media (haha): @BrendanOMeara Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal prompt: The less I have, the more I gain --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Through re-interpretation of influences comes voice. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal prompt: Forked as a lightning strike --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The perils of being a generalist. Journal prompt: Third stone from the sun Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Never sacrifice the feeling for pretty language. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal prompt: So close no matter how far --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Make eye contact with a goal every day. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal prompt: Roaming the land while you sleep --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A letter from Ernest Hemingway to Maxwell Perkins. Social Media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Their song, your style. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Up to 11 Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Constantly seeking advice robs of the best teacher of all: mistakes. Social media: @BrendanOMeara Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Vol. IV of Casualty of Words is here, so here's a little teaser as we start to roll out a new volume of CoWs! Journal prompt: struggle within Social media is @BrendanOMeara Up-to-11 Newsletter! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

And so ends Vol. III of Casualty of Words. Time to fill the well back up! Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Journal Prompt: What does recharging look like for you? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Something changed in 2010. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Writing prompt: Smart phones. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

The quitting question. Read The Dip by Seth Godin. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com Writing prompt: What was the last thing you quit and how did that make you feel? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

One is fast; one is slow; which is better? Writing prompt: How can you turn more conversations from interstates to back roads? Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Pave the road for those coming up behind you. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Give your whole self over to the thing. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Does your story suffer from the Quidditch Problem? Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

An extra level of anxiety from a few days away. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Right on your bookshelf, the answers are already there. Newsletters: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A rant about writing retreats. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Pushing the limits without injury. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

To quote my friend Kevin Wilson, "It's simple. It's just not that easy." Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Every word is a chance to get better. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

AI shoveling coal into your furnace. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Before you google, try this. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

With a hat tip toward NITCH and Viggo Mortensen. Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How heavy the hand? Newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

An easy way to catch more mistakes. Monthly newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Create a "newsstand" on your own website. Newsletter and website: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Lessons from a chef. Monthly Up-to-11 newsletter: brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A quick look at Metallica's "Black Album," with an assists from chef and restaurateur David Chang. brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Tides can't rise all boats for all time. @BrendanOMeara brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A quick look at the opening sentence of Death with Interruptions. @BrendanOMeara brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Brin-Jonathan Butler is a journalist and author of the book The Grandmaster. @BrendanOMeara brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Maybe my favorite lede of all time, Elizabeth Gilbert's The Last American Man. Follow wherever you get your podcasts! brendanomeara.com @BrendanOMeara --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A look at the lede of Survival of the Bark Canoe, my favorite book of narrative nonfiction. @BrendanOMeara brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Taking apart great ledes. Looking at David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Think I'll Never Do Again." brendanomeara.com @BrendanOMeara --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Pitching freelance outlets is a lot like being a pocket passer. @BrendanOMeara brendanomeara.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Bad to Good to Great. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Be ready when the muse strikes. You're not waiting for the muse and THEN be ready. Show notes, newsletter, and transcript. Twitter: @BrendanOMeara --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

There's no secret to getting good. brendanomeara.com for newsletter and show notes @BrendanOMeara for social media. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

A better attitude starts with a better conversation with yourself. Newsletter at brendanomeara.com Social media @BrendanOMeara --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Working hard in the face of social media distortion. brendanomeara.com @BrendanOMeara Patreon for CNF Pod --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app