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I Saw a Poet's Face Today
The Poet's Faceby Carrie JonesI saw the poet’s face for the first time Today. It wasn’t what I expected, More Springsteen than Jesus. His head tilted To the side like a dog when it just can’t Figure out what her humans are trying To say. His brow was heavy, eyes too sad, Bags beneath them holding all the wrongs we’ve All accumulated just beneath skin. I wonder if those wrongs are what leaks out…
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Strange Things In the Woods
We found a topic! It ended up mostly being about poop and creepiness and three-foot tall humanoids.
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Overcoming Negativity Bias & Toilet Rats
Being an author or an artist or almost anyone is about navigating. You have to walk a fine line with criticism and praise, discern what’s real and what’s not, what matters or not, what is noise and what is important.
And sometimes?
Well, sometimes we only hear and dwell on the one negative thing that someone has said to us or written about us even though they (or others) have also said 100…
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Why it is okay to read books you've already read and sometimes there's an alligator in your kitchen
Here’s our main premise this week: it’s okay to read books you’ve already read.
Not only is it okay. It’s helpful.
This is true for both writers and normal humans.
Rereading books gives you:
New ideas
Reminds you of ideas you’d forgotten about
Let’s you notice new things because you aren’t the same you who read that book the last time.
DONALD LATUMAHINA writes for LifeOptimizer,…
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What we are, what we might be, a poem
Here’s a poem.
Hey, thanks for listening to Carrie Does Poems.
The music you hear is made available through the creative commons and it’s a bit of a shortened track from the fantastic Summer Spliff by Broke for Free.
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Strange People Talking About Strange Life Stuff
We went into the world of creepy and weird tonight.
And our sources for some of the stories (that aren’t our viewers/friends) are here and here!
SHOUT OUT TO STUBHY!
The snippet of our intro and outro music is only a snippet of this guy’s awesome talent. Many thanks to Kaustubh Pandav. You can check out a bit of his work at the links…
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The Spiral of Ick and Quiet Winners: You Don't Have to Flaunt Yourself to Succeed
Recently, I read an interview with an author who talked about how much children loved her book and how they tell her this.
It annoyed me. It may have been good marketing, but it sure didn’t feel like good human-ing, you know?
When you’re interviewed by a reporter or when you do a school visit, as a children’s book author, you have the ability to toot your own horn or you have the ability to…
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Shaun went off the rails, but this was supposed to be about how do you sustain a career as an author
This is obviously not the full transcript. You have to listen to hear the full weirdness, but . . . here’s the core.
How Do You Sustain a Career as an Author?
It’s a really good question, right? One, all of us authors are trying to figure out.
Rise With Drew writes,
“Creative careers are slippery. One-hit wonders abound, but fewer are enduring superstars,” Steven writes. “And this level of…
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Journeys, a poem
JOURNEYS
Carrie Jones
We both dreamt of journeys last night.
He rode a Harley, but didn’t know the shifting pattern,
Told the others he was with he’d find it on his phone and catch up.
I drove with my long-dead dad, talking. He was taking me to his house
To meet his girlfriend who is twenty years younger. “I hope you
Still love me,” he said. “Even though I’m dead. And my girlfriend . . .”
I…
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Strange Movies and Stuff
We were talking about movies–a bit, but it ended up being a bit of a free range podcast, which is what happens when we’re live and interactive and weird.
Link we talk about
https://movieweb.com/exceptionally-weird-movies/
SHOUT OUT TO STUBHY!
The snippet of our intro and outro music is only a snippet of this guy’s awesome talent. Many thanks to Kaustubh Pandav. You can check out a bit of his…
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The Info Dump from Hell and How to Avoid Them and Also UFOs
Talking about show vs tell at the scene level is a little bit harder than talking about it at the paragraph and scene levels.
But it’s also a tiny bit easier.
When you’re looking for telling at this level of the story, what you’re looking for is a couple of things:
A butt ton of backstory.
A butt ton of info dumps
A lot of flashback.
You can have bits of these things in your stories. Where…
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Another America Poem
SHOUT OUT!
The music we’ve clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License.
Here’s a link to that and the artist’s website. Who is this artist and what is this song? It’s “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free.
WE HAVE EXTRA CONTENT ALL ABOUT LIVING HAPPY OVER HERE! It’s pretty awesome.
We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we…
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Control Your Tells, Don't Give In To the Passive
Babe,
I know you don’t want to talk about showing vs telling any longer, our massive series, but it’s really really important. It’s sunk many a cool book idea, stopped others in its tracks. It is a chaos agent in the life of many a good writer. And there are so many damn facets to it. I could fill a year of podcasts talking about it.
Don’t worry, I won’t.
But I would be remiss—no, we would be…
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KINDNESS IS SO SOFT
Kindness is So Soft, a poemWhile I sat with my little on the green grassBy the ocean and tried to work through my broken becauseOf yet another guy accusing me of playing games,A man with the wrinkles and curved back failed to negotiateThe turn and his Subaru hit the Peterbilt, damaging both a littleAs they maneuvered on Ells Pier in my tiny town.The Subaru’s tire flattened while both men hopped…
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Author to Author: Chris Lynch Interview
Award-winning author of YA novels? Check.
Printz honor author, ALA Best Book winner, National Book Award finalist? Check.
Has a middle grade coming out March 11 that’s about to rock the world? Definitely.
Was so cool that Carrie was afraid to talk to him back in 2005 or 2006 or something? You know it.
Chris Lynch, award winning human and ridiculously gracious interviewee, graced Dogs are…
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A S-Word Birthday Poem
Hey, thanks for listening to Carrie Does Poems.
The music you hear is made available through the creative commons and it’s a bit of a shortened track from the fantastic Eric Van der Westen and the track is called “A Feather” and off the album The Crown Lobster Trilogy.
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Strange Birthday Weirdness
It was Carrie’s birthday and we podcasted anyway. Partying hard over here. 🙂
SHOUT OUT TO STUBHY!
The snippet of our intro and outro music is only a snippet of this guy’s awesome talent. Many thanks to Kaustubh Pandav. You can check out a bit of his work at the links below.
www.luckyboysconfusion.Net or www.Facebook.com/mrmsandtheinfusions
Thanks for hanging out with us! And remember, don’t…
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