S3 E177: Dream as a Muse
Dreams have been with humanity since the beginning of time. And since earliest recorded history dreams served as a escape value to people in search of answers in a complex world.
Dreams have been with humanity since the beginning of time. And since earliest recorded history dreams served as a escape value to people in search of answers in a complex world.
This episode is more or less my avante garde practice of book review and my melding of the act with my philosophy of more writers willing to review and help other writers.
In this episode I chat about life and preparation behind the scenes of an average recorded literary podcast.
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in the final episode for 2020 we go to the inspirational and lovely poet Maya Angelou, a full and rich life of a young black girl who went from abused child to presidential poet.
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This episode is more like a friendly warning against various forces that seek to steal our voice because they are intellectually or morally lazy to question their own. Below are the segment titles for the show:
1. Family
2. Religion
3. Society
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In the third installment we focus on four writers who made the internal pledge to write and publish a major work meant to warn or possibly change the world.
Alexandr Solzhenitstyn -- The Gulag Archipelago
Elie Wiesel -- Night
George Orwell -- `1984
Sun Tzu -- The Art of War
In the second installment of Germinal Joust, we explore projects meant for singular passion and often sole works of incredible but often tragic literary figures.
Anna Sewell -- Black Beauty
Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
John Kennedy Toole -- A Confederacy of Dunes
Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- The Leopard
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
Margaret Mitchell --- Gone With the Wind
J.D. Salinger -- Catcher in the Rye
Ross Lockridge Jr. --Raintree County
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
Harper Lee --- To Kill a Mockingbird
In this three part writing series Germinal Joust will show how different functions and phrases of writing exist in creativity.
called vs adopted --natural and produced talent
time management -- making writing a priority
notes as a valuable creative tool
rituals as devices for comfort and building confidence
Back again with the spotlight series and this one on the visionary sci-fi tv writer and legend Gene Roddenberry
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On this episode we will discuss the various writers and writings of people either imprisoned for their beliefs and writing from jail or imprisoned for their writings.
Paul the Apostle
Martin Luther King
O. Henry
Henry David Thoreau
Marco Polo
Vaclav Havel
Marquis de Sade
Oscar Wilde
Nelson Mandela
In the final mailbag episode of 2020, we showcase more voices from the international community commenting on various episodes.
An instructive episode of where Self, healthy or otherwise, fits into the creative equation of our lives.
1. Solitiude -- Selfishness
2. Attitude -- Narcissism
3. Platitude -- Achieving Balance
In a first this show will interview editors of a literary magazine (Bombfire Lit)
about their publication, editorship, flash fiction and poetry.
This episode briefs discusses the American avarde garde poetry master John Ashbery.
This episode focuses on the accomplishments of women in writing:
Engeduanna
George Sand
George Eliot
Mary Shelley
Anna Akhmatova
Simone de Beauvoir
Isabel Allende
Classic Spotlight brings us some thoughts and poems from Nobel Prize winning Mexican poet and writer Octavio Paz
The Man
The Artist
The Meaning
In this episode we review examples of writing during war time and how depending on station in life, period of time or particular war -- the thoughts and details change to reflect interesting commentary
war writing intro
US Civil War -- letter
WWI -- war godmothers
WWII -- letter
Vietnam -- letter
Writers famous for wartime writing Rod Serling, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, Ernest Hemingway, Irene Nemirovsky
in this episode we have a fascinating discussion with Scottish poet Steve Lang about sonnets, writing, creativity in the corona age and more.
In this second 'bookend' episode we explore Edgar Allan Poe's demons and ideas about creativity. His self-sabotaging events were a major factor in his suffering.
Another grounded episode on a topic I hear alot about by writing: does writing have a future? What will that future look like? I attempt to answer a few of this questions in a manner I many might find unusual.
In this second installment annually produced I delve into what i have been doing as a writer, especially in this particularly challenging time of Covid, and try to make it relatable on the show to others who might be working or dealing with similiar issues.
In perhaps my most personal voyage into a writer I explore all that was social and creative in the astounding teleplay, screenplay writer Rod Serling.
We cover in this episode: depression, twilight zone, creativity, planet of the apes and the meaning of prejudice as a root of global calamity.
In the final mailbag episode in a rough and uncertain year, 2020, we go through some of the email about show and about the journal, Ariel Chart.
Covered are the following topics:
Fantasy in Writing
Keeping a Journal
Dark Side of Guilt
Covid
Bukowski
Truth
Evil Words
Creativity and Mental Illness
In one of the most unique episode STBH explores Mark Antony Rossi's innovation micro-writing style (fiction & nonfiction) "Concrete Minimalism."
Intro to Innovation
Fiction Passages
Philosophy of Rent
https://www.arielchart.com/2017/07/philosophy-of-rent.html?m=1
Waiting Room Madness
https://madswirl.com/short-stories/2015/07/waiting-room-madness/
Tampa Bay Tantrum
https://www.scarletleafreview.com/short-stories1/category/mark-antony-rossi
I Will Melt the Robots the First Chance I Get
https://www.blakejonesreview.com/flash-fiction/i-will-melt-robots/
Kind
https://underwoodpress.com/ruescribe/2018/10/04/kind-by-mark-antony-rossi/
Nonfiction Passages
World Peace Through Intimacy
Modern Forces and the Meaningful Metaphor
Book Review -- Sun and Moon -- Michel Weatherall
https://booksmugglersden.com/2019/09/18/sun-moon-by-michel-weatherall/
Book Review -- Wonderful Wasteland and other natural disasters --
Elido La Torre Lagares
https://www.arielchart.com/2020/10/book-review-wonderful-wasteland-and.html?m=1
In this episode we briefly examine the good and bad of spoken word poetry.
Light Side -- test run one's material before an audience
Dark Side -- forget about print and then get forgotten -- yourself
Notes: post-covid world might have less eating establishments, no movie theatres and folks less willing to be community-oriented, spoken word might need to learn to adapt to a new reality