MLK decided not to share his day so the book came out today. 

MLK decided not to share his day so the book came out today.

Release Day

What can you record when you're done with the book? When you're finally on the last chapter, literally the last chapter? I haven't much to say really...I'm just excited to be done with this shit. It's been over a year for this series. 400+ pages later. 

What can you record when you're done with the book? When you're finally on the last chapter, literally the last chapter? I haven't much to say really...I'm just excited to be done with this shit. It's been over a year for this series. 400+ pages later.

Last Chapter. 

Sunday Podcast. Updates for the week. We're at the end! Release dates and more!

Sunday Podcast. Updates for the week. We're at the end! Release dates and more!

Sunday Funday

That space between the writer and the flow of the story and my amazing and successful attempt at outlining! Discussing how to blend in multiple storylines into one chapter from one POV.   Sidenote: I love my dogs. I don't fuss at them as much as I do on the recordings. 

That space between the writer and the flow of the story and my amazing and successful attempt at outlining! Discussing how to blend in multiple storylines into one chapter from one POV.  Sidenote: I love my dogs. I don't fuss at them as much as I do on the recordings.

Writing Mood

A deeper look inside Fowler and Adora's dynamic and why they might just be my favorite storyline of all time. Plus a few declarations of what I want to do for 2021. 

A deeper look inside Fowler and Adora's dynamic and why they might just be my favorite storyline of all time. Plus a few declarations of what I want to do for 2021.

Wolf and the Sheep

Confusing ramblings and updates on the story. Where I am now and where I'm trying to be by next Friday. 

Confusing ramblings and updates on the story. Where I am now and where I'm trying to be by next Friday.

Spaghetti on Christmas Day

Updates, where I am mentally and explanations on being self aware as a writer. Short but sweet. 

Updates, where I am mentally and explanations on being self aware as a writer. Short but sweet.

Autopilot

I was caught up in another parking lot and decided to answer these questions from the reading group "Cafeteria Book Club" Covid has essentially taken over my life these past few days, even with negative results but I am determined to get back on track. Damn it. 

I was caught up in another parking lot and decided to answer these questions from the reading group "Cafeteria Book Club" Covid has essentially taken over my life these past few days, even with negative results but I am determined to get back on track. Damn it.

Killing time with Questions

Timed writing sessions, a chapter read with Piru Freeman and his mother and a brief discussion on Nano Month in an attempt to make plans. 

Timed writing sessions, a chapter read with Piru Freeman and his mother and a brief discussion on Nano Month in an attempt to make plans.

Nano Month ft Table Read with Piru Freeman

Episode about about new beginnings, delays, and random family connections that tie into the book. 

Episode about about new beginnings, delays, and random family connections that tie into the book.

Writing Hell

Indie author of urban fiction documenting the wild, unpredictable creative journey of writing and publishing novels.

The birth of a new character from a scrapped idea I couldn't seem to let go. 

The birth of a new character from a scrapped idea I couldn't seem to let go.

Adora Finora

Update of a failed release date and where I'm at with Skye Fall by using a terrible example about the flow of a river being the same as writing a story. Also random ramblings and complaints about jackfruit. 

Update of a failed release date and where I'm at with Skye Fall by using a terrible example about the flow of a river being the same as writing a story. Also random ramblings and complaints about jackfruit.

New Wave

Being inspired by the wrong things or the right things during this writing time. 

Being inspired by the wrong things or the right things during this writing time.

First 48

A few days after the book release. Well, a week after the book release and the chaos that always seems to. follow after it. My perspective on Skye Fall and where I' at now with the story while preparing the release for Fantasea. Also the difference in writing in your head vs actually writing and the math/science behind writing a series. 

A few days after the book release. Well, a week after the book release and the chaos that always seems to. follow after it. My perspective on Skye Fall and where I' at now with the story while preparing the release for Fantasea. Also the difference in writing in your head vs actually writing and the math/science behind writing a series.

Aftermath of Charmed

Updating where I am so far with Skye Fall. I recorded part of this episode while I was cooking so excuse the noise in the background, I was starving. It was lunch time and I've been writing my ass off. 

Updating where I am so far with Skye Fall. I recorded part of this episode while I was cooking so excuse the noise in the background, I was starving. It was lunch time and I've been writing my ass off.

Details

This episode is an update, one of the last updates I'll ever have about this series. Alot of changes have happened.  So many damn changes. 

This episode is an update, one of the last updates I'll ever have about this series. Alot of changes have happened.  So many damn changes.

Spiders vs Mermaids 

Me reading a possible deleted chapter from Skye Fall out loud, wondering if I need it anymore. 

Me reading a possible deleted chapter from Skye Fall out loud, wondering if I need it anymore.

Table Read ft Kayla & Duncan.

Struggling with two great ideas that I want to write on this fine Sunday and randomly coming to a light bulb of an idea in the middle of recording. Just another typical day of writing. 

Struggling with two great ideas that I want to write on this fine Sunday and randomly coming to a light bulb of an idea in the middle of recording. Just another typical day of writing.

A Sleeping Spirit

In this recording, I interview Shantae, and Genesis Woods from Literary Rejects and we discuss the ultimate dream of being in bookstores vs the reality hit us when all of us sat on the shelf together for the first time. We also discuss industry observations and just random ramblings that the usual phone conversation has between three awesome writers. I recommend this episode for authors and writers specifically. Readers, this ain't got nothing to do with Charmed or Skye Fall. 

In this recording, I interview Shantae, and Genesis Woods from Literary Rejects and we discuss the ultimate dream of being in bookstores vs the reality hit us when all of us sat on the shelf together for the first time. We also discuss industry observations and just random ramblings that the usual phone conversation has between three awesome writers. I recommend this episode for authors and writers specifically. Readers, this ain't got nothing to do with Charmed or Skye Fall.

The Gatekeepers ft. Shantae & Genesis Woods

I got my edits back for Charmed and whew chile... It's going to be a long week of just correcting and shifting and re-reading everything but this is good. I told myself not to look at Charmed until the edits are back and focus on Skye Fall and now that I have it back, I can really perfect both stories. Plus a little side rambling about being a writer in real life and balancing personal vs work. 

I got my edits back for Charmed and whew chile... It's going to be a long week of just correcting and shifting and re-reading everything but this is good. I told myself not to look at Charmed until the edits are back and focus on Skye Fall and now that I have it back, I can really perfect both stories. Plus a little side rambling about being a writer in real life and balancing personal vs work.

Edits

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How our mind explains things:[topic-start]
“The way that the mind works, very frequently, is that we start from a decision, or we start from a belief, and then the stories that explain it come to our mind. Conclusions come first, and rationalizations come later.”[topic-end]
How we come to believe things:[topic-start]
"The real cause of your belief in a political position, the real causes are rooted in your personal history. They’re rooted in who are the people that you trusted and what they seemed to believe in, and it has very little to do with the reasons that come to your mind, why your position is correct and the position of the other side is nonsensical."[topic-end]
Who is Daniel Kahneman:[topic-start]
Nobel prize winning psychologist and economist who helped created the field of behavioural economics.

The Nobel Prize-winning psychologist on why we think and act the way we do — and why facts matter less than we think in forming our beliefs.
With his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman emerged as one of the most intriguing voices on the complexity of human thought and behavior. He is a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics for helping to create the field of behavioral economics — and is a self-described “constant worrier.” It’s fun, helpful, and more than a little unnerving to apply his insights into why we think and act the way we do in this moment of social and political tumult.
Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org.

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Daniel Kahneman — Why We Contradict Ourselves and Confound Each Other

Real scenarios of a hospital during a war:[topic-start]
“... we were hand squeezing his ventilator as we ran out of oxygen" and when we finally found the physician to get more oxygen, he said "We don't have any oxygen left, you're going to have to let him go"[topic-end]
Who is Sheri Fink:[topic-start]
An investigative journalist who won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of Memorial Hospital (the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina).

Sheri Fink on the tragedy of being forced to choose who's life to save

When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer change if a sick person was standing right in front of you? In this episode, we follow New York Times reporter Sheri Fink as she searches for the answer. In a warzone, a hurricane, a church basement, and an earthquake, the question remains the same. What happens, what should happen, when humans are forced to play god? Produced by Simon Adler and Annie McEwen. Reported by Sheri Fink.  In the book that inspired this episode you can find more about what transpired at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina, Sheri Fink’s exhaustively reported Five Days at Memorial You can find more about the work going on in Maryland at: www.nytimes.com/triage Very special thanks to Lilly Sullivan.  Special thanks also to: Pat Walters and Jim McCutcheon and Todd Menesses from WWL in New Orleans, the researchers for the allocation of scarce resources project in Maryland - Dr. Lee Daugherty Biddison from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howie Gwon from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Emergency Management, Alan Regenberg of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Dr. Eric Toner of the UPMC Center for Health Security.  Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at Radiolab.org/donate.    

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When people are dying and you can only save some, how do you choose? Maybe you save the youngest. Or the sickest. Maybe you even just put all the names in a hat and pick at random. Would your answer change if a sick person was standing right in front of you? In this episode, we follow New York Times reporter Sheri Fink as she searches for the answer. In a warzone, a hurricane, a church basement, and an earthquake, the question remains the same. What happens, what should happen, when humans are forced to play god? Produced by Simon Adler and Annie McEwen. Reported by Sheri Fink.  In the book that inspired this episode you can find more about what transpired at Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina, <a href="http://www.sherifink.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sheri Fink’s</a> exhaustively reported <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Five-Days-Memorial-Storm-Ravaged-Hospital/dp/0307718972/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1471783956&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=five+days+at+memorial" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Five Days at Memorial</a> You can find more about the work going on in Maryland at: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/triage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.nytimes.com/triage</a> Very special thanks to Lilly Sullivan.  Special thanks also to: Pat Walters and Jim McCutcheon and Todd Menesses from WWL in New Orleans, the researchers for the allocation of scarce resources project in Maryland - Dr. Lee Daugherty Biddison from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Howie Gwon from the Johns Hopkins Medicine Office of Emergency Management, Alan Regenberg of the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Dr. Eric Toner of the UPMC Center for Health Security. Support Radiolab by becoming a member today at <a href="https://pledge3.wnyc.org/donate/radiolab-it/onestep/?utm_source=wnyc&amp;utm_medium=radiolab-redirect&amp;utm_campaign=pledge&amp;utm_content=show-notes" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Radiolab.org/donate</a>.

Playing God


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Michael Sandel explores the philosophical justifications made for national borders. Using a pioneering state-of-the-art studio at the Harvard Business School, Professor Sandel is joined by 60 participants from over 30 countries in a truly global digital space. Is there any moral distinction between a political refugee and an economic migrant? If people have the right to exit a country, why not a right to enter? Do nations have the right to protect the affluence of their citizens? And is there such a thing as a 'national identity'? These are just some of the questions addressed by Professor Sandel in this first edition of The Global Philosopher.Audience producer: Louise ColettaProducer: David EdmondsEditor: Richard Knight(Image taken by Rose Lincoln)

The Public Philosopher

Michael Sandel explores the philosophical justifications made for national borders. Using a pioneering state-of-the-art studio at the Harvard Business School, Professor Sandel is joined by 60 participants from over 30 countries in a truly global digital space. Is there any moral distinction between a political refugee and an economic migrant? If people have the right to exit a country, why not a right to enter? Do nations have the right to protect the affluence of their citizens? And is there such a thing as a 'national identity'? These are just some of the questions addressed by Professor Sandel in this first edition of The Global Philosopher. Audience producer: Louise Coletta Producer: David Edmonds Editor: Richard Knight (Image taken by Rose Lincoln)

The Global Philosopher: Should Borders Matter?

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.” They discuss the importance of meditation for his intellectual life, the primacy of stories, the need to revise our fundamental assumptions about human civilization, the threats to liberal democracy, a world without work, universal basic income, the virtues of nationalism, the implications of AI and automation, and other topics. SUBSCRIBE to continue listening and gain access to all content on samharris.org/subscribe.

Making Sense with Sam Harris

In this episode of the Making Sense podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Yuval Noah Harari about his new book “21 Lessons for the 21st Century.” They discuss the importance of meditation for his intellectual life, the primacy of stories, the need to revise our fundamental assumptions about human civilization, the threats to liberal democracy, a world without work, universal basic income, the virtues of nationalism, the implications of AI and automation, and other topics. SUBSCRIBE to continue listening and gain access to all content on <a href="https://samharris.org/subscribe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">samharris.org/subscribe</a>.

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Updated by OwlTail about 2 months ago

Rank #1: Release Day

Rank #2: Last Chapter.

Rank #3: Sunday Funday

Rank #4: Writing Mood

Rank #5: Wolf and the Sheep

Rank #6: Spaghetti on Christmas Day

Rank #7: Autopilot

Rank #8: Killing time with Questions

Rank #9: Nano Month ft Table Read with Piru Freeman

Rank #10: Writing Hell