Author: Erin Klitzke

It’s finally time for me to stop procrastinating, buckle down, and do the things.

At least right now that’s what I’m telling myself when it comes to this because someday isn’t going to cut it anymore. It’s time.

Instead of just gathering ideas and intending to someday start a podcast, I’m actually going to concretely start to figure out how to do this, plan it, and get rolling.

And if you’re reading this, then you’re about to get the option to chase me down this rabbit hole of figuring out what the heck I’m doing.

So to summarize the picture, I’ve got a few things I need to figure out, possibly in that order, maybe a little here and there and everywhere out of order.

• How to start a podcast (basics)
• What format should I set up in?  What kind of cadence do I want to do this in?  Monthly?  Biweekly?  Send help.
• How the heck do you do notes?  I know they’re a thing but I’ll admit that for the several podcasts I listen to…I’ve never actually looked at their notes.  So expect probably something where I’m doing that for the first time (and apologies to anyone who’s not into an array of podcasts that includes Ultra, And That’s Why We Drink, Lore, and the Murdaugh Murders).
• Tools and software to use – I’ve already got a nice mic thanks to a Christmas gift back when I was really starting to first think about doing a podcast (thanks 2020) but I’ve barely played with it and I’m also fully aware that I’m going to need some kind of audio recording and editing software for this, among other things – because there are always other things.
• Distribution – uh, how do I get this to the world?  Where do I stick it?  I imagine that this will be in some ways similar to ebook channels, but we’ll see.
• Research planning – because I need to.  I really, really need to.
• Sources and resources – this is really a catch-all but it’s going to be about all the things.
• What else?  I don’t know yet because I’m still not sure what I don’t know.

So stay tuned, I guess, buckle up, strap in, load up, and get ready.

Because down a rabbit hole we’re going to go.

Happy Sunday!

The last few months have admittedly been my brain on some kind of roller coaster of not knowing what to work on, staring at blank screens, reading in an attempt to spark some inspiration, and other things like that. With the shift in the weather, that makes for an urge not only to clear my space but to actually occasionally leave my space (a shocker for anyone who knows me very well – I am probably the person that could be voted most likely to be perfectly happy chilling on the couch with my cats and the internet).

This, mind, is the curse of both a creative brain and a logistical brain that’s been working on SOPs for the day job.  Writing operating procedures for both internal and external teams is one of those things that requires a lot of the same puzzle muscles that crafting fiction does, just channeled in much different directions.  Is this an excuse?  Maybe, but that doesn’t make it that much less true.  Most of the non-work writing that’s come out of me lately has been flavored like some blood elves, but if folks are interested in those shorts, I’m more than willing to share them with or without context.

Still, if you’ve hit me up at Doc Says Rawr lately, I’m sure you’ve seen the daily writing prompts that have been going up mostly like clockwork and there are plans for that to continue all the way to the end of the year – wish me luck.  I’ve done this 1.5 times before (the .5 is 2020 and I was doing image prompts on Instagram, so I think we can all figure out why that ended up being only half the year rather than the whole thing) and while it was a lot of work, it was also a lot of fun to do.

Looking ahead to the second half of the year (how is it already almost June? Someone please explain), I plan on getting in over my head, setting ambitious goals, and hopefully making at least some of them.

Lots of randomness there in the planner for next week, right? One of the things I’m trying to do is actually using the lovely planner that I have for things that I want to do outside of my day job (day job has its own undated daily planner which I’ll refrain from subjecting you to). Some things, of course, will have nothing to do with writing (as you can clearly see). Some things, of course, will.

And then, of course, there are the plans that rise and fall that have been rising and falling for several years now.

Yeah.  A podcast.

The problems with me doing a podcast are legion and that is hardly a secret, starting with how to get started and having too many ideas for what I might want to do.  The page on the left in the picture is an idea that cropped up in my head literally today.

More to come on that, among other things–of this I’m certain.

I will probably be putting up a poll soon to see if folks have knee-jerk reactions to what they’d like to see me writing in the coming couple of weeks and then into June.  Otherwise, I’ll have to wrangle my brain into spaces–or let it wander and see where it goes.

Either way, I’ve rambled enough for one Sunday morning.  Happy one week to a holiday weekend for folks in the States.  Brace yourselves.  Summer is coming.