Moonlight Writers Club

Jul 12 2022
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Moonlight Writers Club is a podcast for writers attempting to further their creative goals while juggling the demands of work, home, and remembering to feed the dog. Host Molly Thornton highlights and reimagines the wisdom of new and time-worn craft advice, and interviews writers who have carved out creative careers of their own, or mastered the balancing act of writing with a full life. Each episode supports you in expanding and clarifying the paths to the writer’s life and offers insights and advice that you can apply right away.

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BONUS: Francesca Lia Block and Embracing the Stories that Obsess You

Jul 12 2022 51 mins  
We are BLESSED to welcome the brilliant and magical Francesca Lia Block to the podcast. She is the author of House of Hearts from Rare Bird Lit as well as The Thorn Necklace, Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books, and many more. FLB takes us behind the scenes on her creative process for this novel and how she connected the desert, mythology, and her own imagination into the tale.

10. Make Creative Choices that Match Your Values with Eli Steffen

Apr 05 2022 64 mins  
No "shoulds" here! In the Season One finale, my guest is Eli Steffen, a skilled multimedia artist and creative unblocking facilitator whose practice and teachings support creatives to define their artistic voice and values, understand the importance of context and external circumstances, and follow their impulses in creative work. Eli sheds light on why we get hung up on the expect

9. Enjoying the Practice of Writing

Mar 29 2022 39 mins  
We're in the final chapters of The Artist's Way, but there's still time for new metaphors! Find out why writing is like baking, painting, and space travel, as well as the definition of a "spiritual shark." We are integrating and celebrating the lessons of this journey. This one is filled with acceptance, permission, nurture, protection, and fluffy heated towels. Come along for one

8. Resilience Doesn’t Run on Will Power

Mar 15 2022 49 mins  
Let’s take another look at some of the words we throw around to describe ourselves and our goals. Have you ever labeled yourself lazy but felt so drained? Do you sometimes talk about needing discipline or stronger will power? When we have the wrong idea about what fuels our work, it’s easy to wear ourselves out. Come on in, we’re talking about the negative self-talk and copin

7. Coming Into Your Own as a Writer with Kat Taylor

Mar 08 2022 51 mins  
When life finds you elbows deep in a job you need to cover rent, how do you cultivate the beliefs and practices that keep the real you intact? Writer Kat Taylor is spilling her secrets about protecting herself and her writing life with a couple of small hours, explanations that keep people off your back, characters who wait patiently for your return, and someone in your corner who

6. Writing's Unlikely Ingredients

Mar 01 2022 49 mins  
Wait—don’t put those in the compost, we need them! Mistakes, Failure, Rejection, Jealousy, and Loss are always stocked in my pantry. Find out what these icky parts of life have to do with creativity and why they’re embedded in every finished project. I promise you we will not be icing any cakes if we try to bypass the mess ups. Enough with the baking metaphor—we’re more t

5. Learning Luxury and Leaving Wet Blanket Mode

Feb 15 2022 41 mins  
What are god and money doing in our creative process?? This week we're rethinking definitions of spirituality and talking the benefit of unburdening our personal responsibility to be great and instead, listening and responding. What's going on with our rigid definitions of success, need for security, and tendencies to restrict ourselves out of a sense of virtue? It's all leading to

4. Why aliens make great writers + the inspiration that's wherever you are (with Nate’Eya Kahsai)

Feb 08 2022 46 mins  
A conversation with writer/director Nate’Eya Kahsai who shares the writing powers that come from feeling like a space alien and the personal benefits of centering yourself as the main character in your life (a main character who fuels up by writing a poem a day, to be specific.) She offers expansive perspectives on collaboration, cross-medium exploration, and how to get inspired.

3. Move Through “Official Feelings” and Embrace Change

Feb 01 2022 50 mins  
Just when you thought you were back in the saddle (aka creative practicing) you got caught up in some tough feelings. Have anger, shame, or unhelpful "feedback" snuck up on you? We're unpacking the inner changes and external friction that's likely to emerge as you deepen your commitment to yourself and your creative priorities.  Listen in for support releasing negative and int

2. Transition from Shadow Artist to Spotlight

Jan 18 2022 53 mins  
What feels like self-protection can be self-sabotage in disguise. Have you declined opportunities or followed a dead end path in an attempt to save yourself from disappointment? The crumbs of a creative life will never be satisfying, but the way to protect our artist selves isn’t as tough as you fear. If you’ve been living on the sidelines, stepping out isn’t any tougher than