Épisodes

  • December 09, 2025 – Feed Yourself First!

    December 09, 2025 – Feed Yourself First!
    Dec 24 2025
    In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I observe what would have been the 90th birthday of my mother, who was a real champion of my creativity. In thinking of her, I think about creative legacy, and why it’s important, and what I — and so, perhaps, you — can do to make sure we’re doing something every day to ensure it. The biggest thing, the most important strategy, is right there in the title. This episode was recorded on December 09, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podcasters. Can I help you? Book a free discovery call and let’s find out.My fiction and non-fiction.What Matters is my single-purpose countdown app to keep you focused on… what matters!“My Champion,” an article remembering my mother, Priscilla Brieck.The latest book I helped bring into the world is Sam White Owl’s Letters of a Cryptid Hunter Volume 1 by Elías Ramos.While the quote, “Profit is permission to do the thing again tomorrow” is often attributed to marketer and thinker Seth Godin, it turns out he may not have actually said it (though it’s in line with his philosophies).All about Prodigy, one of the first online community platforms.This episode was recorded (audio and video) using my Insta360 webcam via Meld Studio.Support the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin. Chapters / Timestamps 0:00:00 – Introduction 0:01:06 – New Lighting 0:01:56 – Remembering Priscilla Brieck 0:04:14 – Putting Creative Endeavors Last 0:05:00 – 13,000 Days Left 0:06:56 – The Urgency / Guilt Demon 0:08:46 – Chronic Stress and Creativity 0:11:50 – The Dangers of Deferring Your Creative Life 0:14:01 – Feed Yourself First 0:17:53 – Definition of Art 0:19:04 – Discovering a Lifetime of Deferred Creativity 0:22:46 – Creation as an Act of Honoring Those Who Supported You 0:23:12 – There is Only So Much Time to Be Alive 0:25:52 – Stop Letting Systems Serve as Sources of Procrastination 0:28:35 – Don’t Have Goals, Build a Practice 0:32:17 – Creation as an Act of Service 0:36:34 – You Are Responsible for Bringing Your Unique Creative Perspective to the World 0:38:56 – Does It Hurt When You’re Not Creating? 0:40:10 – Have You Been Feeling Constrained from Creating? 0:40:56 – What’s One Thing You Can Do Every Day for Your Creativity? 0:41:30 – How to Contact Matthew Wayne Selznick About this Episode 0:43:17 – How Matthew Wayne Selznick Can Help You Create a Creative Practice 0:44:37 – In Closing / Call to Subscribe ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
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    46 min
  • November 11, 2025 – My New Countdown App, and the Online Shop Returns

    November 11, 2025 – My New Countdown App, and the Online Shop Returns
    Nov 17 2025
    In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I’m pleased to officially release the countdown app with a point of view I brought into the world and have been using myself for many months: What Matters. What Matters does one thing: displays how many days are left until a deadline you set, and presents a single question: “Are you doing what matters?” Listen to the episode to learn why I wanted such a thing to exist, and how to get your copy for Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. Don’t want to wait? Buy it now and tinker with What Matters while you listen to the episode! Also: all about my now fully-functional battlesta— I mean, online shop. It’s not quite as pretty as I’d like, and there are things I’d like it to do differently, but you can once again purchase e-books, audiobooks, chapbooks, and yes, software directly from me. Learn all about it, especially the WordPress plugins that make it possible, FluentCart and FluentCRM. This episode was recorded on November 11, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podcasters. Can I help you? Book a free discovery call and let’s find out.My fiction and non-fiction.What Matters is a single-purpose countdown application for Windows, Mac, or Linux.A video walkthrough of what’s cool about What Matters.There are many websites like this one that will estimate your life expectancy.FluentCart is a new shopping cart plugin for WordPress that’s much more cost-effective than WooCommerce.FluentCRM is a marketing / mailing list / customer relationship management plugin for WordPress that makes third party solutions like Kit, Mailchimp, or Mailerlite unnecessary… and it’s much, much less expensive, to boot!Amazon SES makes it possible to send marketing emails for fractions of a penny each.This episode was recorded (audio and video) using my Insta360 webcam via Meld Studio.Support the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
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    38 min
  • October 14, 2025 – Twenty-One Years of Podcasting

    October 14, 2025 – Twenty-One Years of Podcasting
    Oct 24 2025
    Coming to you this time from the actual lush and lavish studios of MWS Media, I observe the twenty-first anniversary of my first podcast, which is also more or less also the 21st anniversary of podcasting itself. In and around that milestone, two podcasting legends have retired, and another ill-conceived podcast award is announced. I have thoughts. Also, an update on my own creative life, including my new website, a hopefully fresh approach to selling stuff on it, and anxiety around creating fiction. This episode was recorded on October 14, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podcasters. Can I help you? Book a free discovery call and let’s find out.My fiction and non-fiction.The 40th podcast was probably The Dragon Page: Cover to Cover. Sadly, I can’t find their first podcast episode archived anywhere..!You can find close to 100 episodes of my first podcasts, as well the complete run of Writers Talking and every episode of Five Minute Memoir (so far), at the cultural treasure that is The Internet Archive. You can also hear every episode of Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick right here on my site, and see all episodes of I Know This Much on YouTube (audio versions aren’t archived anywhere yet).Melvyn Bragg was the host of In Our Time for over a thousand episodes.Marc Maron recently ended his landmark interview podcast WTF.Here’s the open letter I wrote Marc Maron to gently scold his repeated claim to be a podcasting pioneer (and deliver some history, and gratitude).The Golden Globes are honoring podcasts now, sort of.I talk about my new website, which is live… and I mention using WooCommerce, with which I was struggling and which is awful. Since recording, I’ve embraced FluentCart. It’s pretty great so far, and at least until the end of October, 2025, they’ve got a price on a lifetime license that’s hard to beat.This episode was recorded (audio and video) using my Insta360 webcam and my Aurycle A87 microphone (through a Behringer U-Phoria UMC202 audio interface) via OBS Studio.Support the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
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    37 min
  • August 26, 2025 – Free-Range Creativity and Origin Stories

    August 26, 2025 – Free-Range Creativity and Origin Stories
    Sep 7 2025

    Sit with me for a bit in the patio of the lush and lavish studios of MWS Media as I discuss my definition of free-range creativity, the concept of multiple origin stories as it pertains to your creative journey, and the latest on a tool I’m developing to help writers and authors keep all their storyworld elements organized and quantified in one place. Among other stuff, of course.

    This episode was recorded on August 26, 2025.

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    Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
    • My creative services for authors and podcasters. Can I help you? Book a free discovery call and let’s find out.
    • My fiction and non-fiction.
    • Apparently, I did not coin the phrase “free range creativity.” But it means something different to me.
    • What I’m building is meant to replace most of what Scrivener does… but if you really wanna use Scrivener in the meantime….
    • This episode was recorded (audio and video) using a Pixel 9a phone with no external tools or third-party apps. Front-facing camera.
    • Support the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks!
    Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community

    Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin.

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    Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!

    Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.

    This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
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    41 min
  • August 1, 2025 – A Path Out of Burnout

    August 1, 2025 – A Path Out of Burnout
    Aug 9 2025
    Hang out with me in a park in the gloaming (and the wind, it turns out, and the helicopters and airplanes) for the fourth episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, a podcast in which tales of one particular ongoing creative life might just have something useful for your own. In this episode, I elaborate on the burnout I mentioned in the previous episode, and go into depth on the mindset, tactics, and strategy I’m employing on a daily basis to climb out of that charred and sooty trench. This episode was recorded on August 1, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podcasters.My fiction and non-fiction.I worked for the long lost and much-loved Borders Books and Music from 1995 until Black Friday, 2005, doing every job at the store level, helping open new stores and training their staffs, helping set policy, and walking you to the section, taking the book off the shelf, and putting it in your hands.The Franklin / Covey planner is still a monster, but there really is something to be said for paper.Productivity guru Stephen Covey.Benjamin Franklin’s thirteen virtues.My e-ink tablet is an older Boox Note Air.What’s yoga nidra?Unreal Engine.This episode was recorded (audio and video) using a Pixel 9a phone with no external tools or third-party apps. Front-facing camera.Support the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
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    39 min
  • July 25, 2025 – What If I Just Talked To You?

    July 25, 2025 – What If I Just Talked To You?
    Jul 29 2025
    Time for another episode of my occasional podcast, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates! This episode, another car-cast, was recorded directly into my Pixel 9A phone, and… I’m on-camera! Don’t worry; I wasn’t driving and filming. These episodes, just like episodes of my previous podcast, Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, have been uploaded to YouTube all along, but all audio-only. Why get on camera now? Doesn’t that run counter to my goal of turning on a mic, talking, and taking the path of least resistance toward getting it out to you? It doesn’t have to. I talk about it in the episode. I also touch on my professional and creative burn-out, and hint that I’ve begun to take steps to gradually and — this is important — intentionally pull myself out of it. The details of those steps will be in future episodes. My hope is that what I’m figuring out will help you, too. Episode Naming I’ve had second thoughts about how to name each episode. When you’ve only released three episodes in five months, there’s room to play around. As you’ve heard (or maybe saw) this episode, I’m maybe-probably making the YouTube edition of this podcast on-camera. Which means treating it in a way that’s YouTube-friendly. Which means assigning a more meaningful title than simply the date. So! The new naming convention will be the date, a dash, and something pithy to describe the episode. The file name will be mwsc_###_###.mp3, with the first three digits being the episode number and the second three digits being the in-total number representing all of the podcasts I’ve recorded and released. And the URL slug will be similar, but with dashes instead of underscores. I’m putting this down here for the real sticklers, and so I have a place to check in case I don’t remember when next episode rolls around. This episode was recorded on July 25, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podcastersProps to the pioneers of vlogging (to my faulty memory, at least), Justin Kan, ZFrank, and so many whose names have left my memory…Tim Ferris is credited with the advice, “What would this look like if it was easy?” It likely first appeared in his book Tribe of Mentors.This episode was recorded (audio and video) using a Pixel 9a phone with no external tools or third-party apps. Front-facing camera.Support the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
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    26 min
  • 2025-04-13

    2025-04-13
    Apr 19 2025

    Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is my audio journal as an independent author, creator, and creative services provider. In this episode, the subject is changing mailing list service providers, and how the process revealed two personality / psychological traits of mine that might benefit from a closer look…

    This episode was recorded on April 13, 2025, in the mobile studio of MWS Media in and around Huntington Beach, California.

    Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode
    • Kit, formerly known as ConvertKit, a popular mailing list service provider.
    • Kit founder Nathan Barry and his podcast.
    • Sendy, self-hosted, pay-once mailing list software.
    • Amazon’s Simple Email Service.
    • Mautic, an open source, free, self-hosted mailing list and customer management system application.
    • MailerLite, another popular mailing list service provider.
    • Seth Godin’s “people like us…” essay.
    • Join the Multiversalists community and get a bunch of perks and access while providing ongoing support for MWSC and my other creative endeavors, with my thanks.
    • Support the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks!
    Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community

    Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, thank you to David Mackler, and thank you to Sam Cherubin, who joined in the days between recording this episode and typing these words.

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    Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators!

    Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app.

    This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
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    33 min
  • 2025-02 23 and 25

    2025-02 23 and 25
    Mar 4 2025
    Here it is, folks: the inauspicious debut of my latest podcast, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates. What is This? I talked about it in Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 107. This new show is my platform to simply… talk to you. Mostly about creating and the creative life as I (attempt to) live it, and so, mostly, to do with writing. But not just about those things. Which was one of the issues that kept me from recording and releasing Sonitotum episodes: the scope of that show was “making stuff, finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process.” What if I wanted to talk about stuff that might only be charitably described as adjacent to that mission..? Another thing keeping me from podcasting was available time. So you’ll hear that Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is… stripped down. It’s almost only every going to be just me, talking to you. I don’t want to take the time for intro music, or interstitials, or bed music, or any of that stuff that requires extra effort and takes extra time. The idea is to come as close as possible to just turning on a mic and talking, and then taking the path of least resistance toward getting it out to you. Episode Naming Because there’s really no set topic for each episode, the naming convention is a little different, too. This is an audio journal. So each episode will be “The Year-The Month Date.” For example, this episode was recorded on two different days, so it’s called “2025-02 23 and 25.” The file name for the MP3 file will be mwsc_###_###.mp3, in which the first three-digit set is the episode number, and the second set is the total number of podcast episodes I’ve released. This episode was recorded on February 23 and 25, 2025. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode The Multiversalists community of friends, fans, and fellow creators. Consider becoming a patron member for extra benefits and to support this show!The lavalier microphone used to record this episode.All of my individual short stories and novelettes are available as hand-made, signed and numbered, limited edition chapbooks. While they last! “The Perfumed Air at Kwaanantag Bay”“The World Revolves Around You”“The News from Bewilder Pond”“Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Chimera Wolf”“Reggie vs Kaiju Storm Dragon Squidbat”“Cloak” My creative services for authors and podcastersSupport the show with a one-time donation, with my thanks! Thanks to the Patron Members of the Multiversalists Community Thank you to J.C. Hutchins, thank you to Jim Lewinson, thank you Amelia Bowen, thank you Ted Leonhardt, thank you to Charles Eugene Anderson, thank you to Scott Roche, thank you to Harold Johnson, and thank you to David Mackler. ~ Did you listen to this and decide you like the cut of my jib? Are you interested in directly benefiting from my quarter century of online indie publishing experience? Click to learn more about my services for writers, authors, and other creators! Never miss an episode! Join the Multiversalists community of readers, writers, friends, and fans at the free level. You’ll also get your choice of one of three of my e-books! Or (and!), find this podcast anywhere you get your podcasts, or subscribe manually by copying https://www.mattselznick.com/feed/podcast/sonitotum into your favorite podcast app. This content is by Matthew Wayne Selznick and came from his website.
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    29 min