The Power of Self-Indulgent Twaddle (003)

Based on a tumblr post from 2017, this episode explores the reason why we write to begin with: the love we bring to a story. 

When I was recording this podcast I really had fun, and might come across as a little bit silly. I perhaps repeat the word twaddle a little too often! eheheheh!

As we get further along in these podcasts you'll find that I often refer to tumblr for inspiration and ideas. I have been on that platform for many years now, and in fact I have at least three blogs on Tumblr. It was a huge change from livejournal but I have enjoyed using it and being inspired by the many creative posts that are made there. It is amazing what people will come up with and how they exercise their creativity when given an arena to do so that is, by and large, full of encouragement and inspiration. That is a long-winded traduction to this podcast, where-in I was inspired by a very short comment style post on Tumblr to talk about the selfishness of being a writer.

But you need to get used to it, because this is a topic I will return to a lot: Owning our creativity.

In this podcast I talk about the concept of “self-indulgent twaddle,” and how it has been used to shut down writers, especially women, who want to write genre fiction such as romance novels and science fiction and fantasy. Writing is in many ways an act of improvisation, and oppressing our creativity in order to fit the molds that other people make is self-destructive and counterproductive.

Join me as I talk about how we can own our self-indulgent twaddle, become better writers, and also become happier writers in this third podcast of the Author Alchemist!