Podcast Playlist

Since the start of my journey as a writer, in the autumn of 2017, I've been working hard to grow as a writer and to get some words in every day. Then, we bought a house. A big house with a pasture. An old house in desperate need of a facelift.

Between that and my fulltime job, my writing time became more and more scarce and reading felt more and more like a guilty pleasure. Every moment spent reading was a bit of free time I didn't spend writing.

And then I crashed and burned after forgoing sleep in favour of writing for over three months. It took me over a month of reading and nothing much else to even figure out that the pit I found myself in wasn't bottomless after all.

After two years of forcing myself to rest and recharge my brain with reading, I've finally found the perfect compromise. Audio.

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I've become an absolute podcast binger. I take my earbuds to the grocery store. I listen to podcasts while mucking out after my horses or grooming my dogs. I bike to work through dawn and dew, guided by the voices of my favourite podcasters.

I've built up a subscription list that manages to keep my braincells nourished without dipping into my budgetted writing time.

So in the coming weeks, I'd like to take you all on a trip through my playlist and talk about the podcasts and podcasters I've grown to love, in the same way as I order it on my phone. By alternating fiction and non-fiction.

Here's the list, in the order in which I found them myself:

• Print Run Podcast
• Podcastle
• The Drabblecast
• Beneath Ceaseless Skies
• The Creative Penn
• The 21st Century Creative
• Escape Pod
• Pseudopod
• Cast of Wonders
• Marvel's Wolverine: The Lost Trail
• Alba Salix
• The Tim Ferriss Show
• The Writer's Well
• The Career Author
• The Other Stories
• The No Sleep Podcast
• The Self-Publishing Show
• Story Grid Podcast
• The Exploress Podcast
• What'sHerName
• The New Yorker: Fiction
• The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice
• The Wicked Library
• Geek's Guide to the Galaxy
• Story Grid Editor's Roundtable
• Lightspeed Science Fiction and Fantasy
• Strange Horizons
• Asimov's Spotlight
• Civilized
• Middle:Below
• The New Yorker: Poetry

Wow, that list looks a lot longer than it does on my phone. Holy cow. Hopefully, you'll discover something you like. I know I did.

See you soon.

Hugs

Jasmine