QWERTY: A Podcast for Writers on How to Live the Writing Life
Hosted by Marion Roach Smith · Marion Roach Smith
4.9from 140 ratings
- 176
- Episodes
- 37
- Transcribed
- 140
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
About QWERTY: A Podcast for Writers on How to Live the Writing Life
Welcome to Qwerty, the podcast for writers on how to live the writing life. Host Marion Roach Smith interviews the best writers in all genres to discover their process. Qwerty is by, about and for writers and explores the real challenges of writing and the steps anyone can take to become a better storyteller. Listen in for writing tips, publishing advice and encouragement on how to live the writing life.
- Publisher
- Marion Roach Smith
- Category
- arts · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 20 May 2019
- Latest episode
- 16 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
37 of 176 episodes have a transcript.
16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep. 175 Virginia Eubanks
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Ep. 174 Cara Benson
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Ep. 173 Jessica Walker
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Ep. 175 Virginia Eubanks
Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So I had read memoir and I had read self-help and I had read the clinical research on PTSD and trauma and caregivers and And I was not finding my experience reflected in any of that work. So in the self-help literature, I kept getting this really quite toxic advice of things like build a safe room in your house or love him the most when he deserves it the least. In the clinical research, there was all of this research that suggested that caregivers give themselves vicarious trauma by neglecting themselves or by refusing to let go of control or like all of these sort of blame the caregiver sort of reasons for why we get sick. […]
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- Virginia Eubanks
- Cara Benson
- Jessica Walker
- Hester Kaplan
- Marian Yee
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- 4.9 / 5
- 118 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 22 ratings
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- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 93
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