Sonitotum from Matthew Wayne Selznick

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

mwselznick@gmail.com (Matthew Wayne Selznick) — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 23:37:44 +0000

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.
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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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August 1, 2025 – A Path Out of Burnout

mwselznick@gmail.com (Matthew Wayne Selznick) — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 06:19:39 +0000

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.

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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.
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July 25, 2025 – What If I Just Talked To You?

mwselznick@gmail.com (Matthew Wayne Selznick) — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:20:37 +0000

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.

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Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode

My creative services for authors and podcasters
Props 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.
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2025-04-13

mwselznick@gmail.com (Matthew Wayne Selznick) — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 21:28:55 +0000

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.
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2025-02 23 and 25

mwselznick@gmail.com (Matthew Wayne Selznick) — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:27:55 +0000

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!
My creative services for authors and podcasters
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