The Episodic w/ Michael Finney

In this workshop session, we discuss the process of polishing your manuscript into shape.

In this session, we talked about the GEN48 film festival, success as an author compared to other art forms like music and film, creation science such as making things as experiments, production costs and pricing, and focusing on getting projects done.

Hans Schantz returns to the program to discuss his new series "Fields & Energy", a historical look at physics and where it went wrong. We also discuss writing, crowdfunding projects, and the Based Book Sale.

In this session, we discussed competing with algorithms and platform changes, as well as merchandising our creations via design assets made for books or other media.

This month, Heidi, Jagi, and I discussed process and progress on the way to advancing our projects. We also gave a progress check-in on the things we're working on.

In this session, we discuss fiction and nonfiction, how to humanize technical ideas through characterization, as well as marketing and branding.

Author Heidi Hill joins the program to discuss her writing career, including a stint as a periodical editor, hosting The Writer's Block for nearly two years, and her fictional series Songless, which has recently expanded with an audiobook.

In this session, we discuss audiobook production, audio equipment, plus the development of media and hardware that enabled the growth trend for audio experiences.

We're halfway through the Writer's Block program for 2025 and decided to revisit a topic from last year (it had been almost a year) How is the progress on your work coming along?

In this session, we recap the Summer Book Sale, discuss audiobook production, and consider the value of having a series of books to promote.

Author Rambo Van Halen joins the program to discuss his new release, "Hollywood Samizdat," being published by Passage Press, his longtime interest in writing, and his career working behind the camera in the film industry.

In this session, we discuss new projects including using Royal Road for distribution, creating a novel of Warhammer 40k fan fiction with extensive use of AI, and audiobooks.

This episode is about determining what to write, setting expectations and goals, plus finding time to write.

In this session, the narrative voice, using POV and characterization for immersion, getting work done and released.

Clawson Smith joins the program to discuss his writing development, the literature scene, and his new book "Prey for the Birds".

In this session, we discussed project progress, the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing 2025 literary contest, the Taco Bell Quarterly, and writing movements through the 20th century 

In this session, we talk about translating your work between formats like books or articles, photography, audiobooks, music, and film.

In this session, we discussed writing process and getting finished work out the door such as audiobooks and utilizing Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing

The brothers Forbes, Zach and Joshua, join the program to discuss their writing process as a team of brothers, their career in writing, and the Continuum series of books they write together.

During this session, we talked about building a catalogue of releases, creating audiobooks, and the North American Fantasy Based Book Sale I am curating for May as well as alittle discussion on literary agents and ghost writing

Heidi and I led a discussion on the particulars of curating your writing environment to set the mood for creativity.

This session we talked about poetry, getting work done, and building an audience via social media

Angry Penguin joins the program to discuss his work within the generative artificial intelligence art community and the platform Glif, which makes it possible to build and run custom workflows in the browser.

A good roundtable of discussion of projects that everyone is working on currently and alittle about language translation or transcription, potentially for audiobooks.

On this episode, Billy Mays III joins the program to discuss his musical career as Infinite Third and eyepillow as William Labyrinth and celebrate the 15th anniversary of his first album release, "Gently," which is currently being prepared for a vinyl release.