In the 3rd episode of Truer Words, we discuss getting started, giving yourself permission to just make mistakes, how where you live can affect your productivity, and the importance of being part of an artistic community.

Then Kathryn speaks to visual artist May Yang about how she balances her art and her screenprinting business.

Find May online at MayYang.net or Flashfloodprint.com and Instagram: @electrofervor and @flashfloodprints.

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Show Notes:

Books, movies, comedy specials, and other media or institutions mentioned include:

Danielle Steel’s desk (believe us, you want to see it)

Nora Roberts

Amy Tan, misandrist hero

Small Business Development Center of Tulsa

MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art)

Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque

Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition

Time Blocking

Jessica Hische

Podcast: Song Exploder

The Gathering Place Tulsa

Philbrook Museum of Art

And here’s the mural May painted!

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

In the 2nd episode of Truer Words, we discuss some of the mental roadblocks to committing to writing as a goal.

Then Melissa speaks to comedy writer Erin Foley Chan about how she applies her social work and TV network experience to her writing projects!

Find Erin on Twitter @erinrosechan and Instagram: Erinrosechan. And find Erin’s dog, Thor, on Instagram: @Thebiteythor. She’s also on the How to Watch Movies the Right Way podcast.

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Show Notes:

Books, movies, comedy specials, and other media mentioned include:

Nanette by Hannah Gadsby

My Life as a Goddess by Guy Branum

The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

Forever Princess by Meg Cabot

Cash Cab

Samantha Bee’s This Is Not A Game The Game

Jantsen’s Gift by Pamela Cope / The COPE Foundation

Bubble Guppies

Brooklyn 99

Get Out

Inside You by Heather Fink

Game Night

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.

In the 1st episode of Truer Words, we introduce ourselves! Then we speak to debut YA novelist and stone cold genius Adrienne Kisner about her path to publication and her creative process/life philosophy (i.e. Beast Mode).

Find Adrienne on Twitter @adriennekisner and visit her website, adriennekisner.com. Her debut novel is Dear Rachel Maddow, and her upcoming June 2019 release is The Confusion of Laurel Graham.

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Show Notes:

We reference our MFA program, Vermont College of Fine Arts’ MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults, and the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award.

Books and other media mentioned include:

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Sawkill Girls and Furyborn by Claire Legrand

Murphy Brown

The Good Place

Veronica Mars

About Us:

Truer Words is created and produced by Melissa Baumgart and Kathryn Benson. Our music was composed by Mike Sayre, and our logo was designed by Marianne Murphy.

You can follow us on Twitter @truerwordspod and on Instagram @truerwordspodcast. Contact us via our website, truerwordspodcast.com, or email us at truerwordspodcast@gmail.com.