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Have things gotten worse for mothers who want the time to write? Former non-fiction editor at Literary Mama, now SF Grotto-ite, solo performer, writer, host of a yearly contemplative creative retreat at Santa Sabina and more, talks about the prohibitions against mothers leaving their children for extended writing retreats, the challenges and process of fielding submissions, time management, juggling projects, navigating Medium. She studied solo performance with W. Kamu Bell and has written non-fiction and fiction for magazines and anthologies–so she has plenty to say about writing for the page v. the stage. Get tips on organizing your material, secrets of recording your own audio book, and the strategy of braiding your stories. With insights into a walking and writing practice, and good ways to talk about work that is still tender in workshops, this is an episode you won’t want to miss!
Links Discussed:
@TheSusanIto on Medium and Twitter,
@SusanIto on Instagram, Facebook
The Critical Response Process book
A Question of Balance: Artists & Writers on Motherhood
Lisa Marie Rollins/ Solo House
W. Kamau Bell/ United Shades of America
Sizzling Story Outlines by H. R. D’Costa
Podcast Good Muslim Bad Muslim
Susan Ito
Susan Ito is the author of The Mouse Room. She co-edited the literary anthology A Ghost At Heart’s Edge: Stories & Poems of Adoption (North Atlantic Books). She is a creative nonfiction editor at Literary Mama, and her work has appeared in Growing Up Asian American, Choice, Hip Mama, The Bellevue Literary Review, Making More Waves and elsewhere. She has performed her solo show, The Ice Cream Gene, around the US. She teaches in the Creative Nonfiction MFA Program at Bay Path University, and is working on a theatrical adaption of Untold, stories of reproductive stigma. Her website is http://susanito.com.
Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival–everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.
The hosts:
Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.
Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.
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