Podcast Episodes

Write the truest sentence you know

I had sixty-thousand words then I had twenty-thousand, and I still did not have a book. This Thursday’s episode is about how I finally learned the di…

1 month ago

Locate yourself

I went out to play disc golf yesterday, and I kept losing focus on the game. My mind wandered off down every side trail in the woods. This Monday’s e…

1 month, 1 week ago

The Difficulty: live from The Home Bar with co-host Genesis the Greykid

The difficulty in life is the choice. And this week the choice came fast: an hour before we sat down, a tree took a lightning strike around the corne…

1 month, 1 week ago

Wait, For Now

There’s the feeling of standing on the edge of everything and nothing at once. So much that might happen. So much that could happen. And nothing has …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Genesis Greykid and Chad Prevost on the Creative Life and the Pathless Path

Host Chad Prevost and co-host Genesis launch the first live happy-hour episode of The Difficulty from Home Bar in downtown Chattanooga, inviting list…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

The Big Five Just Chased the Indie Author

The difficulty in life is the choice. And every choice is a crossroads.

This week’s Working Writer roundup covers three stories that land on the same …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Working Writer: The Money Moved

Five things that actually moved in publishing this month, and what to do about each. The Authors Guild puts hard numbers on why author income keeps s…

1 month, 4 weeks ago

Crossings: The 64-Page Book That Knows Where You Are

How many books on your shelf were actually finished (if they were even began)? This episode is about a different kind of book: short on purpose, beau…

2 months ago

Weekend Reflection: Penelope at the Loom

Homer gives us a woman who weaves a shroud by day and unravels it by night, holding off a house full of suitors. We call it stalling. Homer calls it …

2 months ago

Writing By Hand in the AI Era

I did an episode a few weeks back on Jasmine Sun’s provocations about independent writing in the AI era. One of those provocations: the value of poli…

2 months ago