The Writers' Block exists to be an encouragement and resource to all writers along their journey! Whether you write as a hobby, if you are a blogger, or you are on your way towards publication, we have something for everyone! Come see us every other Thursday and get your strength back to keep going! And as always, Happy Writing! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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Best-selling author, comedian, journalist, and podcast host Greg Howard Jr welcomes guests to an evening of hilarity, music, and conversation.
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The Mixtape Lounge 1x08 with Andy Bramley & Ren Jackson
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In this (very British) episode, your host, Greg Howard Jr, talks with the up-and-coming star of the literary world, ANDY BRAMLEY, and country music superstar REN JACKSON! *** ABOUT ANDY BRAMLEY: When not sleuthing around Cabot Cove in 1984, Andy Bramley can be found writing professionally sill comedy/fantasy books. Base in Kingston Upon Hull in the…
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Sometimes the hardest thing is to focus. But — focus is a must and a muscle. Both have to be developed. Get your copy of BLACK LIKE THAT: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/68721080/black-like-that--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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The Mixtape Lounge 1x07 with Jay Anthony Franke
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In this episode, your host, Greg Howard Jr, talks with the brilliant multi-hyphenate from the hit show California Dreams, Jay Anthony Franke! *** ABOUT JAY ANTHONY FRANKE: Jay Anthony Franke is an American screen and voiceover actor who first rose to prominence as ‘bad boy’ Jake Sommers on the ‘90s teen sitcom, California Dreams. As a voice actor, …
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The Mixtape Lounge 1x06 with Two Weeks In Nashville & Lonely Parrots
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In this episode, your host, Greg Howard Jr, talks with music superstars TWO WEEKS IN NASHVILLE and LONELY PARROTS! *** ABOUT TWO WEEKS IN NASHVILLE: After discovering their sound & identity whilst on a writing trip to Nashville, TWIN conceived their name in tribute to the music capital of the world. Consisting of three mates who came together throu…
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The Mixtape Lounge 1x05 with Aaron Jackson
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In this episode, your host, Greg Howard Jr, talks with the brilliant multi-hyphenate from the hit show California Dreams, Aaron Jackson! *** ABOUT AARON JACKSON: Hollywood actor, AARON JACKSON, is an Actor, Producer, Director, Coach, and Motivational Speaker. He’s best known for his role on the NBC TV series, California Dreams where he played Mark …
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The Mixtape Lounge 1x04 with Abe Gurko & Bo Baskoro
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In this episode, your host, Greg Howard Jr, talks with the author of the smash hit memoir Won't Be Silent: Don't Stop 'Til It Matters, Abe Gurko, and multi-hyphenate Bo Baskoro! *** ABOUT ABE GURKO: When Abe Gurko packed his bags and moved from New York City to Hollywood, he wasn’t leaving a career in the fashion industry to chase the usual dream o…
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bell hooks said, “People are hungry for descent.” Perhaps, this is one of the reasons why the writer, the artist, will never go away! We are needed… And necessary. Get your copy of BLACK LIKE THAT: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/68721080/black-like-that--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/suppo…
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The Mixtape Lounge 1x03 with PREACHER STONE & MARC DEL GIUDICE
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In this episode, your host, Greg Howard Jr, talks with music stars PREACHER STONE and MARC DEL GIUDICE. About Preacher Stone: Ronnie Riddle: Vocals, Harmonica Ben Robinson: Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Slide Guitar Nick Nyugen: Lead Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Mandolin, Fiddle, Dobro Wyatt: Drums, Backing Vocals Jim Bolt: Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals …
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The Mixtape Lounge 1x02 with VON BIEKER & CAROLINE PARKE
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In this episode, your host, Greg Howard Jr, sits down to talk with Canadian music stars VON BIEKER and CAROLINE PARKE. About Von Bieker: Von Bieker plays indie folk that haunts your heart with small stories and big questions. Mostly. His recent singles have brought explosive growth, with We Don’t Even Fight Anymore gaining 10,000 Spotify streams in…
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Writers are responsible for re-creating humanity in a world by which may not see our own. In the world of diversity equity inclusion that we are in, and fight to remain in… It is easy to be swept up in the argument of diversity versus representation. Note: If this title looks familiar, it is the title of a book of poetry by Audre Lorde.--- Support …
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In May 2019, I started this podcast with my adopted brother, the Anchor app, a pink notebook, and 45 minutes before work at a rehabilitation hospital. This is STILL cause for celebration. Get your copy of BLACK LIKE THAT: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/68721080/black-like-that--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show…
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The Mixtape Lounge 1x01 with JENNIFER BUSH-HARRIS & QONDI
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In the premiere episode your host, Greg Howard Jr, sits down to talk with author and poet JENNIFER BUSH-HARRIS and Thirst for Democracy creator QONDI ABOUT JENNIFER BUSH-HARRIS: Jennifer Bush-Harris is a freelance writer, blogger, podcaster, and poet. She has written 18 books, including 11 books of poetry. Her latest release is entitled Learning To…
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If I wasn’t a writer, what would I be? Writing is what I do. I can’t imagine doing anything else. Can you? Link to LEARNING TO BREATHE FIRE: Learning To Breathe Fire: The Collected Works During 30 Days Of Jaye 2019-2023 https://a.co/d/12Noxh5. AMERICAN MASTERS - ROD SERLING: https://youtu.be/T4ALNnImsmU?si=EFJOME6RmZTYvChT. Get your copy of BLACK L…
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TW: death and dying. Writers are mortal. But sometimes we can take the rest with us. How does one come to grips (or at peace!) with that? To review see Episode 90: THE WRITER’S WILL. Get your copy of BLACK LIKE THAT: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/68721080/black-like-that--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onth…
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“Men brag, and women hide.” Shonda Rhimes said this at an ELLE event. And when she said it, I couldn’t shake that she was right— and I refuse to hide ANYMORE. Give up my pen (or light) for what? Get your copy of BLACK LIKE THAT: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/68721080/black-like-that--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p…
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Writers are strange creatures…and I am proud to be one. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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Sometimes the hardest thing you can do is an artist is believing yourself… The second hardest thing is showing up for yourself. This show will have a SEND FOR A POET segment with my work “A POEM WITH NO TRANSLATION.” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support…
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Creativity is a demanding mistress— and in constant need of attention and tending to. We have merch now! Get some! https://Seewhatjayesaid.threadless.com/designs/the-writers-block-podcast-merch--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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Being inside, a writer head is a loud and complicated place! Sometimes the language doesn’t always make sense, and sometimes we repeat that. And yet, it is needed and necessary. We have merch now! Get some! https://Seewhatjayesaid.threadless.com/designs/the-writers-block-podcast-merch--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show…
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Sometimes being a female fan of something that has protagonist, and heroes that are male is beyond complicated. We have merch now! Get some! https://Seewhatjayesaid.threadless.com/designs/the-writers-block-podcast-merch--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support…
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Welcome to Season 8! With all things being immediate, sometimes we as artists have to let things…simmer! A Cache is different from the Draft Drawer we spoke about way back in Season 1. But it’s just as needed, trust me! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support…
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You’re doing better than you think you are. Onward to 2024!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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It took us 5 years to get to this point, and we are going to celebrate LOUDLY! Come and celebrate with us! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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115. Writing In A Time Of Upheaval: Shouts To Roxanne Gay
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Writers are witnesses, agitators, and truth-tellers! The work we do is needed and necessary! Write like your life depends on it! Works mentioned: The Source of Self-Regard (T. Morrison), Bad Feminist (R. Gay) and WRITING IN A TIME OF SOCIAL CHANGE (MasterClass taught by R. Gay). SEND FOR A POET segment is by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre. The work is ca…
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“Black people need witnesses in a world that thinks everything is White.” -James Baldwin --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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The work of the writer can be thankless…but we do it anyway. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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There is a White woman on TikTok who believes the LORD told her to “sanctify” Iniko’s song Jericho—to make it sound more Christian and less “demonic.” Where have I/We/Us heard that before? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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The most glorious moment in fiction writing is when the characters take over. The scariest thing is fiction writing is when the characters take over! For this episode, we’ll examine how great this is…and how scary that just might be. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support…
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110A: Closing Thoughts On Back To Writing Month
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Whew! And just like that then month of September is hours from being over. Let’s take time to reflect on September, which is BACK TO WRITING MONTH, and the proceeding 9. Onward to 2024!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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At the time of this recording, recording artists/rapper/emcee/aka ESCO, NAS has released his 6th album in 3 years. For this episode, we are going to explore just how powerful (and needed) creative energy is. Note: listen to the end of this episode for a special announcement for February 2024 (Accounts to follow: IG: @authorjbharris, TT: @whatjayesa…
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109A. Bonus: VENGEANCE IS THE BODY (LIVE READING)
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VENGEANCE IS THE BODY is available on Amazon/Kindle. This reading was done on Saturday, September 23, 2023. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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There will never be a time where the artist is not needed! And for the cards, for this noble guild, we do what we must. Artist are truth, tellers, soothsayers, and a type of magician. It is through our work, and weaving, for the force of our own imaginations, that we prove to the world that we are more alike than we are different. For what can expe…
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The Black writers who shaped my life, who I quote and study—are either aging or dead. When Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr. (Nikki Giovanni) turned 80 this past June, this was driven home to me. My Foremothers…are leaving. Leaving! Where do we go from here? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support…
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Sometimes you have to encourage yourself and other people. In listening to BlackFluidPoet (podcast is the same name—listen to the episode titled “THE FOREST”), I want to answer the question of “Who is even listening?” The answer is this: the people who need to hear. Artists are a different type of healer…and we are more needed just like medicine… -…
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106. Black Writers In White People’s Faces
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For this episode, we are going to focus on what is currently happening in the Houston. Independent school district. Libraries are being closed for lack of a better word in order to make room for detention centers within schools that are being created under the guise of helping children to learn to learn how to read. We’ve been here before… Haven’t …
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105. The Album (Or Cemetery) Of Social Media
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Tweeting. Facebooking. Instagramming, Duets. Stitching. Going Live. All these verbs are now part of our writing reality. Yet as technology changes, and these things are changed, improved, or even lost… How do we as writers manage that? Follow me on TT: @whatjayesaid2.0/shesgottapen2.0; IG: @authorjbharris SPILL: WHATJAYESAID Twitter: @authorjbharri…
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There are certain things that feel like wins and like losses as a writer—which is individual to the writer who experiences them. And yet…we keep going… in spite of. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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If you ask a writer, what successes… They may not have a easy answer for you. Success is as individual as the writer whom you ask. In this two-part show explore what that means, what success really is, and what success actually means to me. Also! Listen all the way to the end of the show to hear about YOUR LIFE THE MIXTAPE MAGAZINE! I also am a fea…
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There is something to be said for checking the work you abandoned, and what you got distracted from getting back to. For this episode, let it me a reminder to go back and look again—you might be surprised at what you find! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support…
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At the time of this recording, the Writers Guild of America is still on strike. So often, this profession, this art, is not honored. And it’s time that we start doing that. Without a writer nothing moves.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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With all that’s going on in the world AI, it’s just the newest innovation of what writers have faced for centuries. With every new invention that seeks to replace human creativity, it must be kept in proper perspective. For this particular show, I give my opinion on just how, I think AI can be useful, and what makes it detrimental.--- Support this …
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As of this show, we are nine days from our fourth year anniversary of podcasting. It is amazing just how far this platform has come, and how much further it Hass to go. There is an exuberance on the show, and energy on this show, that only a black woman can bring. Come and share this joy… A Black woman did this.--- Support this podcast: https://pod…
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99A. “Primary Sources, Secondary Sources, Never Imaginary Sources…”
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The adage is that history is written by the winners. Yet, I pose you this question: is history really with written by the winner or is it written by the people who survived? And are still surviving? Being a primary resource, you have to understand that it is your responsibility to record what is happening around you… AND TO YOU in times of social u…
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Every Writer needs a résumé! A document that can be given out. We need a necessary that tracks and celebrates all of your accomplishments. The thing that is so amazing about your write a résumé is it is built by you. I can also be neglected by you. Make time to update it every so often, and celebrate over it… Every so often. Note: AND KEEP IT UPDAT…
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One of the things most crucial in your writing journey is the management and control of your intellectual property. While there are many reputable places for you to submit your work (and you should!) there are also places that will take your work. It is essential for you as your own advocate, the proprietor of your intellectual property to read you…
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I know it seems that all is lost, and success may never come, but trust me—it is on the way. Keep going.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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Day 28: Love & All Its Forms-reading from How Much Justice Cost? by JBHarris
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As this project ends, I thought I would be fitting to end it with a sample of the work you will find in the title listed. It has been my hope, that you have gotten some encouragement, entertainment, and maybe remember just how complex love is… And how deep you can go. this book is available on Amazon and Kindle now. make sure that you rate, recomme…
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Day 27: Love In All Its Forms: Love Letter to Black Women by MikeTheVoice
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On his TikTok account, we have the campaign #FindMikeAWife. After hearing this piece, hopefully she will come to him soon! Make sure to follow MikeTheVoice on all his platforms and watch for his book! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/onthewritersblock/support
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Day 26: Love And All Its Forms: Look To Him by Mike The Voice
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As we begin to wait if this project (this might return next year, so keep following this particular space!) We have Mike The Voice once more still with his soulful work. Make sure you’re following Mike The Voice on all platforms to make sure you are aware when this book drops! Remember to rate, recommend, and review this podcast wherever you find i…
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Day 25-Love & All Its Forms: No More Water But Fire This Time/For Sojourner by JBHarris
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these two pieces are from the crate from the summer of 2022. There is a collection for them, don’t worry! I am actually making room on the publishing calendar to include them in the work. I’ve been sitting on for a couple of years now. If poetry is our highest expression of language, then history, and it’s recording is the key to immortality. pleas…
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