The Episodic w/ Michael Finney

The Episodic w/ Michael Finney

Conversation-focused audio from wherever we intersect. Interviews, technology, art, compilations - pretty much whatever catches enough attention to make it worth talking about at the time.

Episodes

June 16, 2025 103 mins

This episode is about determining what to write, setting expectations and goals, plus finding time to write.

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In this session, the narrative voice, using POV and characterization for immersion, getting work done and released.

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Clawson Smith joins the program to discuss his writing development, the literature scene, and his new book "Prey for the Birds".

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In this session, we discussed project progress, the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing 2025 literary contest, the Taco Bell Quarterly, and writing movements through the 20th century 

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In this session, we talk about translating your work between formats like books or articles, photography, audiobooks, music, and film.

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In this session, we discussed writing process and getting finished work out the door such as audiobooks and utilizing Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

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The brothers Forbes, Zach and Joshua, join the program to discuss their writing process as a team of brothers, their career in writing, and the Continuum series of books they write together.

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During this session, we talked about building a catalogue of releases, creating audiobooks, and the North American Fantasy Based Book Sale I am curating for May as well as alittle discussion on literary agents and ghost writing

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Heidi and I led a discussion on the particulars of curating your writing environment to set the mood for creativity.

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This session we talked about poetry, getting work done, and building an audience via social media

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Angry Penguin joins the program to discuss his work within the generative artificial intelligence art community and the platform Glif, which makes it possible to build and run custom workflows in the browser.

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A good roundtable of discussion of projects that everyone is working on currently and alittle about language translation or transcription, potentially for audiobooks.

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On this episode, Billy Mays III joins the program to discuss his musical career as Infinite Third and eyepillow as William Labyrinth and celebrate the 15th anniversary of his first album release, "Gently," which is currently being prepared for a vinyl release.

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We talked about branding and audiobooks during this session as well as organization in service of getting projects done.

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During this workshop we discussed getting your book into markets, engaging with readers and community, as well as promotions.

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On this session we discussed the Based Book Sale, the value of reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, analytics monitoring, and audiobooks vs physical reading.

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February 24, 2025 29 mins

On this episode, John Slaughter joins the program to talk about his path in writing and his debut release, "Crimson Veil".

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February 17, 2025 59 mins

This episode features a number of live poetry readings in addition to conversation about developing projects.

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This episode is about getting your new projects going early in the year. We outline a few methods to get started to get something on the blank page with pen or keyboard.

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February 3, 2025 50 mins

This session we discuss progress on new projects, beta readers, and having a website to promote our work or to engage with readers.

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