I’ve enjoyed writing all of my life. And there’s one thing that, as a regular and consistent writer, I have become aware and accustomed to over time: the times of the day when I write the best. I like typing away late at night, long after my “real world” duties are done and when everyday distractions have been placed into sleep mode for the night. That’s when I feel like I can finally switch my mind from “daily survival mode” to “deep into writing mode.” More recently, however, it dawned on me that there are also certain times of the year when I feel more into writing than others. I think it…
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How to Build a Podcast
About four years ago, in summer 2013, a friend and I flippantly said “we should start a podcast!” We were both rewatching a television series together (well, together-apart, we were actually just instant messaging about it as we watched one episode to the next) during the show’s summer hiatus and were having fun chatting about it and theorizing about the upcoming season. The show? Once Upon a Time, a sort of sleeper hit about fairy tale characters who live in the “real world.” Neither one of us were superfans of the show per se, but we had spent the better part of our young adult lives in various fandoms (X-Files, Harry…