Marginally | a podcast about writing, work, and friendship

Episode 104: A Pep Talk for Powering Down

This is a pep talk for anyone trying to let themselves take a short or long break from anything at all. We've both decided to do less or quit things for a bit over this holiday period, so we get into the different reasons why you might want to quit / take a break from / power down from something.

If you know it's what you need to do but can't break up with hustle culture, get in touch and we'll write you a permission slip to take a break or a letter firing you from your project!

Definitely get in touch if this resonates with you or you want to share any thoughts you have.

 

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Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá 

Episode 103: Happy Thanksgiving Back

We do something a little different with this episode, and begin with a discussion of one of our friendship touchstones, the 1998 film You've Got Mail. Takes have been popping up everywhere lately, and we talk about why it matters and how it works, and what it means to us -- twenty-five years ago and now.

But don't worry -- we also catch you up with some big changes in our work and writing lives. Routines, schedules, first drafting, and what's going on now [jump to minute 21 for this part of the show].

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.

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Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá 

Episode 102 - Sneaky Perfectionism

This week, we're sharing what we've been doing since June. It's one of those episodes where we end up forgetting we're recording a podcast and just having a conversation between friends about what our current writing routines look like, and what's going on in our work lives -- covering all the areas of our tagline of writing, work, and friendship.

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.

Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.

Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá 

Episode 101 - new jobs, new books, new routines

This week, we're sharing what we've been doing since June. It's one of those episodes where we end up forgetting we're recording a podcast and just having a conversation between friends about what our current writing routines look like, and what's going on in our work lives -- covering all the areas of our tagline of writing, work, and friendship.

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.

Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.

Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá 

Episode 100: Janelle Hardy on stories and somatic healing in the creative process

In today’s episode we talk to Janelle Hardy, who is a writer, artist, host of the Personal Mythmaking Podcast. She is also the creator/teacher of a memoir-writing course called The Art of Personal Mythmaking. This process uses body-based trauma-informed writing prompts, fairytales and themed modules to support creative folks who are interested in healing from their life stories as they write their memoirs.

Her work combines her BA in Anthropology with her MA in Dance, plus her Diploma in Structural Integration. She has been working as a trauma-informed bodyworker and as an artist for many years, and she’s taught adults these important skills out of her living room, arts centers, universities and community colleges.

You’ll hear all of that experience and her unique wisdom in this conversation, but definitely check out her podcast and her website.

We loved talking to Janelle about the work she’s done, how to get out of your head and change your responses using myth and story as well as somatic or body-based healing techniques. Working in this way is rare and transformative.

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.

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Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá 

Episode 99: Writing nonfiction with Emily Midorikawa

This week, we're delighted to have Emily Midorikawa back with us to discuss her new book, Out of the Shadows: Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice, out now in both North America and the U.K, as well as her research process, the gift of libraries and librarians, parenthood, writing partners, and how she's worked during the pandemic.

Emily is a winner of the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. Her journalism has been published in, among others, the Daily Telegraph, the Paris Review, The Times (of London) andthe Washington Post. She teaches on the writing programme at New York University London. Emily is also the coauthor of A Secret Sisterhood: The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontё, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf, written with Emma Claire Sweeney, and published in 2017. She also collaborated with Emma on the long-running and excellent blog about female literary friendship, Something Rhymed.

For more with Emily, you can listen to our previous interview with her writing partner Emma Claire Sweeney from May 2019, and of course find her online at emilymidorikawa.com, on Twitter @emilymidorikawa, and on Instagram @midorikawaemily.

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

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Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá 

Episode 98: Judith Warner on middle-grade, and on handling perfectionism in writing

When we booked author Judith Warner on the show, we had a lot of questions for her about what writers (especially kid, YA and middle-grade fiction writers) need to know about middle-school friendship, and how that period affects the rest of our lives and our friendships. Judith's new book, And Then They Stopped Talking to Me: Making Sense of Middle School, touches on the important role that this middle-grade period has in all our lives and our friendships.

Judith talks brilliantly and clearly on that topic, but we go so much wider and deeper in this interview. She talks about how she manages her perfectionism, and when it spirals into a form of OCD. It's a struggle a lot of writers deal with, and we appreciated having this open discussion.

If you've struggled with any of these things we discuss, please do get in touch with us - either through our website, on our Instagram or elsewhere.

 

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.

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Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá

Episode 97: How We Revise

Today, we have a short episode walking through our revision processes. As usual, this isn't prescriptive -- do things your way if they work, and you're not doing it wrong. But listen on if you are curious about what's been working for us!

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

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Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá 

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Episode 96: How Yang Huang writes deep stories

Interviewing Yang Huang, a fiction writer and computer engineer, was a real delight. We had a chance to read her forthcoming novel, The Good Son, before this interview, and we loved the way her complex characters drove a surprising and satisfying story.

We definitely recommend it - it's out May 27, 2021!

Yang has incredible advice about everything from characters to research. 

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.

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Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá

Episode 95: How It Started and How It's Going

We're here this week with a quick update, as well as an announcement of a fun new experiment! Listen for details, and join us by subscribing to our newsletter.

We also chat about the things we've learned in the last few years of developing solid writing practices, as well as where we're headed.

As always, we'd love for you to take a minute to rate and review us in your podcast app, as this helps other listeners find the show. 

Visit our website, marginallypodcast.com, for complete show notes and to get in touch.

Find us on Instagram @marginallypodcast.
Theme music is "It's Time" by Scaricá Ricascá