Writing & Other Ways of Dying

About Writing & Other Ways of Dying

Two MFA graduates are not seeking answers to their difficulties creating as much as they're reflecting on their experiences (internal and external) and participating in commiseration in the most literal sense of the word. --- Email questions, topic ideas, and writing confessions to WritingDying@protonmail.com

Publisher

Ana Hurtado & Brontë Wieland

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

28 Jan 2019

Latest episode

7 Feb 2020

Latest episodes

6 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   7 Feb 2020

   Ana and Brontë Went on Hiatus and All I Got was This Episode

   We're back! Kind of. After eight months of things falling apart (depression, work, writing) & then the world getting better (moving, summering, writing), we'd love to share what we're up to now with you.

2. 

   22 May 2019

   5: A Billionaire for Everyone, or Nah? Featuring M. Molly Backes

   M. Molly Backes--author of The Princesses of Iowa and fellow MFAer from Iowa State University--joins our podcast. We discuss writing in academia, fellowships, and question how productivity is perceived as a way to determine our self-worth. Email writingdying@protonmail.com questions we could address in future episodes!

3. 

   29 Mar 2019

   4: The 10,000 Hours of Mastery

   In this episode, we contemplate the process of writing and discuss how purpose could impede our writing. Shout out to Ursula K. Le Guin for her constant giving.

4. 

   27 Feb 2019

   3: What Are We Really Striving For?

   In this episode, we contemplate how others observe the novel and the short story forms and announce some exciting news.

5. 

   7 Feb 2019

   2: I'ts Not All Bad

   In this episode, we reflect on our MFA legacy and how it inspires us. As fiction writers, we consider how other genres have shaped us, too. And, at last, we share good writing-related news!

6. 

   28 Jan 2019

   1: Post-Graduate School Check-In: Do you feel it, too?

   In our first ever episode of "Writing & Other Ways of Dying," we confess the reason we started this podcast in the first place: writing is hard. Listen to us explore our experience at Iowa State University's MFA program, some future creative writing project ideas, and how writing (or the thought of writing) is killing us slowly.

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