Walking Writers Podcast

In this episode I talk about my absence from the podcast, covid-19, and the writing I am doing right now. Listen in and catch up with what happened to me over the pandemic and how I coped with solitude and not working on my writing. Follow me on socials @seanemalloy and find me on WordPress Sean Malloy Writes ✍

In this episode I talk about getting ready for Nanowrimo, although we may be 5 months away, this is a good time to start getting your ducks in a row. As a pantser, I have a hard time planning out what I'm going to do months in advance, but if you are thinking about writing a novel it is best to do some sort of outline and let the creative juices flow as they do once you sit down to get the work done. I also talk about having a guest on in the following episode, once where I think you all will enjoy very much. Look up Justin Herzog in the meantime and find some of his books so you are familiar with his work. If you have Kindle Unlimited you can find his books there for free to read or you can purchase them for only $2.99 here in the USA. www.justinherzog.com

In this episode I talk about clearing your mind while the world among us seems to come closer to anarchy and chaos. Using this time to reflect on the world around us and use the events in our writing to fuel creativity among insanity and injustice. I hope you enjoy this episode and I hope it finds you during these trying times in our history. I'll see you on the trail.

In this episode I finally read one of my short stories from my published book "Wings Upon Flames." I have been planning to do this for a while, since I have been working on publishing this collection of short stories in physical form, I thought it would be a good idea for those who have been waiting patiently to hear my work publicly on this Podcast. I hope you enjoy this episode and next weeks episode will be back to normal and I will offer some more inspiration for you Writers out there. Also I have been working on a video as well and I will release that soon for you to see. Have a great week and I will see you on the trail.

This episode talks about the hardships we have been experiencing during this time of the pandemic. It shares the stresses of social distancing and economic breakdown. We discuss how to get back to a center in your life when life as we know it has been changed in ways we have never experienced before.

This episode was intended to be an update during the Covid19 pandemic. However I was not happy with the way I was feeling toward the Podcast and releasing it when I recorded it in April. I came back to this recording and decided to release it anyways even when I felt it was not up to my standards. I hope you enjoy the episode even though things have been morbid and lonely lately. The next episode I worked on will be released shortly after to bring this episode into perspective. Thanks for listening again. I'll see you on the trail.

In this bonus episode, I would like to extend my own experience with the global pandemic known as Covid19. I cover updates on how I have been utilizing this time to work on the Podcast and making progress on my novel. In addition to the Podcast, I would like to share that spending time with family is important as well as catching up on content you may have skipped in normal day to day life. Take this time to reach out to those in your life you haven't contacted in a while. Catch up on some TV shows or books you have been meaning to read. And by golly, work on that novel or short story you been telling yourself you would get to when you had the time. Find some Podcasts to listen to and books to hear that help you in your career. Remember to stay safe and stay home. Hope you all are doing well.

In this episode I discuss the effects of Covid19 in my life and in the world. We try to look for the positive side of things and continue to stay creative while things around us continue to worsen with hope to get better soon. Stay up to date and stay informed about your cities circumstances. Stay safe and stay healthy.

A quick response from my kids and I as we hunker down in our house during the Covid19 pandemic. We hope you are safe and healthy and things will get back to normal soon.

In this episode we discuss the positive effects exercise has on our brain and creativity. With physical exercise comes mental exercise in the shape of using writing prompts to help you get out of a funk, or learning to use your brain and creativity in different ways to develop great ideas.

In this episode we discover what it's like to struggle with our lives and relationships in our own writing. Our quote of the day by Marilynne Robinson helps us to focus on how failure can be much more than a negative aspect of our experiences. Catch up with me on my progress in my own work and how I am planning my goals for the future. I hope that you will find this episode cathartic and inspiring for you and your journey as well. I'll see you on the trail.

In this episode of the Walking Writers Podcast, We catch up with our writing goals and how we can obtain the time that is necessary to continue our writing journey. Stir the negative we must find the positive in our lives and in our work so we can push forward to obtain our goals.

From the quotes of Maya Angelou where the title of this episode is based on, we find ways to get around the ways we think and how we judge our own success in the things we have done. In this episode I try to relay some knowledge as a struggling writer trying to make an imprint in the world while keeping my own spirits up in creating new work for the podcast, my blog, and my novel. Enjoy this episode and I'll see you on the trail.

In this episode we catch up with the last few weeks of the new year and begin to find focus for what the plan may be for 2020 as a writer. We also learn that as a writer we may challenge our relationships because we have writing working in the back of our minds at all time. This may be a good thing, but can also cause tension with the ones we love. Happy writing and see you on the trail.

In this episode of the Walking Writers Podcast, we discuss the ways we can keep up the habit of writing, how depression may affect your habits and a quote that will challenge your thoughts about your duties as a writer.

We catch up from the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020 to find new ways to complete our goals for the year to come. Keeping a positive vibe and viewing life to move forward towards writing new and exciting projects.

In this episode I discuss how I'm getting ready for Nanowrimo next month. Also in news for myself I have published my short stories called wings upon flames now available digitally wherever you buy your books. The universal book link for Wings Upon Flames https://books2read.com/u/bO6ldQ

In episode 25, we learn how to "Just Write," and focus on making the best of your free time to write. Lose that inner critic during the writing process and make progress instead of trying to be perfect the first time around. Come and join the Walking Writers movement and use the #WalkingWritersPodcast on social media to make an impact today in other Writers lives. Dont forget to follow me on Twitter @seanemalloy and follow my blog on Wordpress at SeanMalloyWrites.wordpress.com

In this episode we talk about the effects of anxiety and depression, love of writing, the process of editing and how to stay enthusiastic about your writing goals. What do you do in your writing life? What works for you in your writing? What goals have you set for yourself and how do you plan on obtaining them? Please follow me on Twitter @seanemalloy and let me know how you are doing in your writing.

In this episode I talk about updates with editing, preparing for publication and the quote of the day that sheds light on why writers are mad about writing. Hope you learn something and find some inspiration to get writing yourself. Keep walking and keep writing. See you on the trail.

In this episode, after a long hiatus of soul searching, job searching, and working full-time with a family to take care of, we set out to find the reasons why we write and what makes us write. Like most people, finding the time for yourself and your writing is harder than anything else, but we need to balance out our wants and needs to find what matters most to you and what keeps you going.

This week's episode of the walking writer's Podcast is about taking your time with your edits, pushing toward publication, and enriching your readers life as well as your own with you are writing.

This episode of #WalkingWritersPodcast is about finding time for you and your creativity. Taking your work to a new level by exploring the world of self publishing and what that can mean for you. Thanks again for listening to the show and I hope that this finds you and inspires you to go out and create. See you on the trail.

This weeks episode is for Writing and re-writing. Some of the ways we write are different from others but we all need to edit our work, thus coming to the fact that some of our work needs to be re-written to clarify ideas we had to begin with. Listen to this weeks episode and hopefully it will help you find your process and find you are not the only one who may have to scrap something to make it better.

Hello Walking Writers, This is a quick update to let you know I haven't forgot about you or completely ditched my blog and podcast. I know everyone has busy lives so I will keep this post short and sweet to the best of my ability. Over the past few weeks I have pushed myself harder to work on my writing outside of the blog and podcast. Although I love doing both, the main reason I am here is to tell you about the things I experience while establish myself as a professional writer. Over the last year since graduation, my word count has fallen and almost become non-existent with my fictional writing work. Maybe it is all for a reason as I have mentioned before on the podcast, if you are keeping up with me there as well. I am starting to find the flow again, although it isn't at the output as I did when in school, I am keeping up with a discipline and remaining focused on the overall agenda to output work that people would like to buy and experience stories from my voice. Expanding the writing routine into my schedule, I have found little time to get to the networking aspect as to posting on this blog and the podcast. I want to let it be known that I still want to help others with their writing journey as I still need help with mine. I have joined several writing communities over the last several months and have staked out to see how I can contribute to the community as well as finding ways I can get positive feedback in return. It is important to find a writing community as a novice writer. When you find a good one filled with good people willing to take time out of their busy writing schedule to help you, consider yourself a lucky person. Since it's national poetry month I wanted to share with you that I am reading more poetry and I also been dabbling in writing poetry myself. I wish I could bring myself to write a poem a day. I think that would be a great goal to have by the end of the month. I would have thirty poems to edit and hone into something worth keeping or publishing. Maybe narrowing them down to a few great ones and maybe ten or so good ones. Maybe this will be a goal to set for myself in the future, I'm sure the poets reading this now would say if it were only that easy. I'm no poet and I also don't know much about it so to say that I'm going to write one every day that was worth anything is like saying I could contribute to brain surgery when I don't have any schooling or knowledge about it. I believe it was Ernest Hemingway that had a quote similar to something like that. Believe it or not I started writing this post about a week ago and I intended to publish it this past weekend, but you know how it goes writers. I have hopes that my next blog or podcast won't be so stretched out but April is a busy month full of family birthdays and other life fun filled tricks up April's sleeve. Do yourself a favor this week and push yourself to create a writing schedule and try sticking to it. Of you can't, find another time or find some community to help you drive yourself to committing time to yourself and your writing. I hope you have a great week and I'll see you on the trail.

Episode 17 is one of my favorite episodes so far. sometimes I can believe I've made it this far into the Podcast without quitting yet. This episode is all about discipline and finding a routine that works for you. The best way I can describe how I put my work down on the page is taking one word at a time, then sentence, then paragraph. Sometimes if we break big things up into smaller chunks it makes it easier to digest and conceptualize as things find their way together. Maybe this is why the podcast continues to come together is because I break it down into small pieces so I don't get overwhelmed too easily. I do believe in having a plan for those planners out there, but there is something that is so organic about being a pantser, something that makes the writing feel alive an unrehearsed. When I sit down to write most the times I know what my beginning middle and end look like but not always. I think if you listen to my reading from my thesis for graduation last June you will hear some of the things I'm talking about in this paragraph. Just know that it was intensely revised up until the hour before I read it, as others did with their thesis readings as well. Nothing is perfect so give it your best shot and come back to critique your own work with fresh eyes and a fresh mind to allow the beauty unfold in front of you.

Episode 16 is about finding that time to write and making it a discipline for yourself to put words down on the page and make something out of nothing. Sometimes the hardest thing is looking at a blank page, but know that every writer faces this and you're not alone. Quick updates with myself and my writing journey, and this month is National Poetry Month, so pick up some poetry and do some reading. Have a great week and I'll see you on the trail.

This episode is about growing your skills and virtues in your writing and reading. Through listening to other podcasts about writing and other talk shows I realize the importance of communication with my readers and listeners. Express yourself in your writing to create something true—I'm paraphrasing from the quote of the day by John Wray. The point is that we need to let our true selves go so we can write more freely. listen to the episode and learn with me. I apologize for the audio hiccups, I had some technical difficulties this week and I think I will be able to avoid them for next episode. Keep Walking and keep writing. From one walking writer to the next. Enjoy.

listen to this episode with my first interview with Jordan Vandina, creator of Weekendscripts.com currently Jordan writes for Stephen Spielberg's "Animaniacs" among other TV show's in the past. Check out how Jordan got his start and how he keeps up as a working writer in Hollywood. follow Jordan on Twitter @shrimptooth visit www.weekendscripts.com

Hello all, thanks for joining me in this week's new episode of Walking Writers Podcast. I'm glad to share my progress with using dictation in my writing. Also, I came across a great article about how reading fiction creates more empathetic human beings, so if you're a reader of fiction you are a more empathetic person according to this study. As always, keep walking and keep writing. Join the community on Twitter and word press. You can listen to this podcast anywhere you get your podcast feeds. https://t.co/pDmoxj2kv2?amp=1

As technology advances in the future more and more writers are using methods of dictation to write faster and identify their writing voice. also in this episode I talk about listening to your body for your health and your creativity. sometimes when we feel exhausted we don't produce the work we want and we get sicker quicker because we are physically and mentally run down. It is good to notice these things in daily life and know when it is time to take a rest. As usual I include a quote of the day from a prolific writer so please enjoy see podcast for this week in episode 12. Keep walking and keep writing.

This weeks episode is a reminder that you are starting a new year and making plans to follow through with your goals. You will achieve your goals by working on creating a plan to write more or using your time more productively. It can be tough trying to figure out things at first, especially if you are new to writing, but if you find a rythm you will accomplish more than you thought. Happy writing, and keep walking for a healthy 2019.

Welcome back to the Walking Writers Podcast in the beginning of 2019. Hopefully the holidays brought joy to you and your family. This is the beginning of a new year and the beginning to a new you... as a writer in 2019. I hope that we can focus on working together on achieving our goals this year and I hope that I can help you as well as myself. Enjoy the first episode of the new year and the 10th episode of this podcast.

Episode 9 Is about finding what you must write and how to get planning for 2019. Also make sure you Pat yourself on the back for the work you done in 2018. look towards the future and make some plans to produce more work in 2019. Also, check out poets.org on Twitter and follow Sandra Beasley with her outstandingly, wonderful essay "Flexing the Form: Contemporary Innovation in the Sestina." Enjoy the holidays! Keep walking, and keep writing!

Episode 8 is about bouncing back from Thanksgiving and utilizing reading with your writing. Reading fuels the fire or your writing, so continue reading those books that spark the imagination deep inside of you. As always, keep walking, and keep writing. Stay healthy and live a fun, creative, blessed life. follow me on Twitter @seanemalloy and on WordPress at www.seanmalloywrites.wordpress.com

The Walking Writers Podcast episode 7 is about being who you are as a writer and being okay with that. Live your life and incorporate that into your writing.

Episode 6 of the Walking Writers Podcast talks about finding clarity in meditation, inspiring your writing by emulating your favorite writers, and finding a sacred place to write.

Episode 5 of Walking Writers Podcast is about finding yourself and making the best of the time you find to create.

Write the truest sentence you know, a part of a quote from Ernest Hemmingway found on @advicetowriters on twitter. Intro to episode 4 of the Walking Writers Podcast, covers the writing updates from me, and some writing inspiration from one of the great writers of the 20th century. please visit www.seanmalloywrites.wordpress.com for the transcription of this episode. Visit me on Twitter @seanemalloy to leave feedback and to follow daily writing inspiration.

Love what you do. show notes: Differ from actual episode for better reading experience. this can also be found at my Word Press page. SeanMalloyWrites. Hey everyone, I know it's been a while. It has been kind of busy over here on my side. It's been a rough week and a half between work and family life, it has been real hard for me to get to writing and to my Podcast. I just kind of want to make a quick update to let you know that I've been thinking about about you guys. So I've been listening to a lot of Podcast recently and as always, I listen to Joanna Penn. She definitely is a big influence on me in my writing and learninng about marketing and stuff like that. Her Podcast is about helping writers find their inspiration for writing novels or short stories or screenplays. Whatever it is that calls you to listen to her Podcast. She was just in Saint Petersburg, Florida last week, unfortunately I was unable to make the (NINC) Novelist inc. Conference but I listened to Joanna's podcast about the conference, and basically what she was talking about was doubling down on what you love, and the opportunities of publishing wide. Check that episode out because it is definitely something I would recommend you listen too and if you don't know about Joanna Penn then now's the time to get involved. She's helped me over the last 2 years by listening to her advice and peppered writing guests with loads of marketing and the business of writing tips. To speak toward the love of writing and what you do, it doesn't have to be about writing, it could be any job really. I like to talk about writing since that's what the Walking Writers Podcast is about. There are times where we get so busy with life and all things that we have to do on a daily basis, that we forget about the things that we want to do. The things you love to do seem to take a back seat when priorities are set in place, and I'm saying here that we have to make our writing a priority as well. No matter if your sitting down for five minutes on your lunch break, or you're at a family party and everyone else is playing a game while you write a paragraph or two blog on wordpress like me. I've been thinking more about how to tackle my writing in a post graduate world where life has returned to the hectic, chaotic way of tending to a family and bills. I want to take a different approach to my writing and the Walking Writers Podcast. I wanted to mention in this blog that I've been focusing poetry from poets.org you can follow on Twitter where you can subscribe to their poem-A-day tweet, among a bunch of great poetry that get writers thinking and learning a vocabulary that provides a high quality language. It's a great way to look at sentence structure differently and you don't have to be a poet, you can be a fiction writer, a screen writer, nonfiction writer, doesn't matter. I think it's a good habit to get into to broaden the the aspect of your mind as a writer. If you want to meet other writers, regardless if it's through social media or in person, being a part of the community is key to success for a writer. Nowadays it's hard for me to read all the time. I'll be honest, I don't read as much as I have in the past, but I listen to a book or 2 a week. I don't really classify it as doing actual reding but you know Joanna Penn says on her Podcast that she listens to most of her books, and she classifies that as reading. So, if she's classifying that as reading and comprehending, than take it as you will. I like to physically see the words on the page, but unfortunately the way that to my life is scheduled right now, it's hard to do that. Most people have a busy day-to-day life too. They have kids/ a family/ a full time job that requires their full attention just like mine. Listening to books either through your library or audible is a great way to get the inspiration, vocabulary, and follow a cadence of how a story is told. You know what sounds good and what doesn't, and listening to a story

This episode we talk about the writer’s journey and how alone time with your work is necessary to get the creative juices flowing.

The first podcast from Walking Writers introduces the podcast from host Sean Malloy. This episode discusses writing to writers from beginners to professionals, how inspiration may hit you, and to keep motivated.