Write Against The Machine
Write Against the Machine stars Ellie Di Julio and Mary Richert as quarter-aged, self-published authors investigating writing as an act of subversion, featuring genre-bending, world-changing, and inspirational swearing.
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Episode 21: Let’s talk about sex in writing, baby
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Download episode 21 or listen here: That’s right. Sex. Writing about sex, anyway. Sexy sex and not so sexy sex. Literary sex. Turns out, we have Opinions about what makes a humpalicious sex scene and what makes us cringe with … Continue read
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Episode 20: The freelance life with Lauren Orsini
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Download episode 20 or listen here: For this week’s episode, we invited Lauren Orsini to chat with us about what it takes to make it on your own as a freelance journalist. She started out working a writing 9-5 but … Continue reading →
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Episode 19: Don’t let The Man (or The Machine) get you down
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Download episode 19 or listen here. We haven’t talked about it a whole lot yet, but the Machine in our name is sort of the important part of this podcast’s message. Writing is just one way to fight it – … Continue reading →
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Episode 18: WTF is Inspiration, Anyway?
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Download episode 18 or listen here. When inspiration strikes, it drives us to create with abandon, and sometimes it leads us to jump into huge projects with no idea how we’re going to deliver (not that we have any experience … Continue reading
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Episode 17: Mental Illness and the Creative Life
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Everyone knows there have been tons of great writers, artists, musicians and brilliant minds of every stripe who have also been plagued by mental illness. Too often, though, we equate “being crazy” with being creative. Living the creative life
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Episode 16: Staying Motivated When Inspiration Wanes
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Download episode 16 or listen here. We don’t just write for a reason. We write for many reasons. We need motivations that are big and exciting enough to grab our attention and get us moving. We also need motivations that … Continue reading
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Episode 15: Flirting With the Audience
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Download the podcast or listen here. Put on your sexy pants because this week it’s time to flirt. Flirting with your audience is all about getting the reader on your side, making them feel like a partner rather than just … Continue reading
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Episode 14: Everything you ever wanted to know about slam poetry with Princess McDowell
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Download the podcast or click below to listen! This week, we get super focused on the power of poetry not just as a literary art but as a performing art. Princess McDowell is a friend of Mary’s from college, and … Continue reading →
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Episode 13: Killing characters, avoiding mansplaining, and diversifying the cast
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Download the episode or click below to listen! Since Mary’s attempting her first piece of fiction and Ellie’s working on a new book, we decided we’d like to talk about what’s rankling us about writing our current characters. Saying
