Author and creator Matthew Wayne Selznick shares his creative life with you in periodic reflections, observations, expressions of experience, and attempts at understanding. An unfiltered, transparent, personal audio journal from a DIY, independent author, creator, and creative services provider.
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In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I announce plans to revive a show from the earliest days of podcast, Five Minute Memoir. Join me as I walk the dog in the neighborhood and reveal the history of the original Five Minute Memoir, a podcast in which listeners share brief true stories, anecdotes, and formative moments. “It’s our lives, five minutes at a time.” I also explain how and why I’m bringing Five Minute Memoir back, and how you can be part of it. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode Submit your true story, anecdote, or formative memory for a chance to be part of Five
In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I share my thoughts after re-evaluating my position on generative artificial intelligence as it pertains to the creative life. Mild spoiler alert: no, I’m still not going to use AI in my own creative endeavors. Listen (or watch!) to learn how my opinions have changed in the three years since I last tackled the topic. It might give you something to think about. Or maybe it’ll just piss you off. This episode was recorded on April 17, 2026. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My crea
In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I observe what would have been the 90th birthday of my mother, who was a real champion of my creativity. In thinking of her, I think about creative legacy, and why it’s important, and what I — and so, perhaps, you — can do to make sure we’re doing something every day to ensure it. The biggest thing, the most important strategy, is right there in the title. This episode was recorded on December 09, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podca
In this episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, I’m pleased to officially release the countdown app with a point of view I brought into the world and have been using myself for many months: What Matters. What Matters does one thing: displays how many days are left until a deadline you set, and presents a single question: “Are you doing what matters?” Listen to the episode to learn why I wanted such a thing to exist, and how to get your copy for Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. Don’t want to wait? Buy it now and tinker with What Matters while you listen to the episode! Also: all about my no
Coming to you this time from the actual lush and lavish studios of MWS Media, I observe the twenty-first anniversary of my first podcast, which is also more or less also the 21st anniversary of podcasting itself. In and around that milestone, two podcasting legends have retired, and another ill-conceived podcast award is announced. I have thoughts. Also, an update on my own creative life, including my new website, a hopefully fresh approach to selling stuff on it, and anxiety around creating fiction. This episode was recorded on October 14, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on
Sit with me for a bit in the patio of the lush and lavish studios of MWS Media as I discuss my definition of free-range creativity, the concept of multiple origin stories as it pertains to your creative journey, and the latest on a tool I’m developing to help writers and authors keep all their storyworld elements organized and quantified in one place. Among other stuff, of course. This episode was recorded on August 26, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode My creative services for authors and podcasters. Can I help you? Book
Hang out with me in a park in the gloaming (and the wind, it turns out, and the helicopters and airplanes) for the fourth episode of Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates, a podcast in which tales of one particular ongoing creative life might just have something useful for your own. In this episode, I elaborate on the burnout I mentioned in the previous episode, and go into depth on the mindset, tactics, and strategy I’m employing on a daily basis to climb out of that charred and sooty trench. This episode was recorded on August 1, 2025. Watch the Episode (No video? Click to watch on YouTube.) Links
Time for another episode of my occasional podcast, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates! This episode, another car-cast, was recorded directly into my Pixel 9A phone, and… I’m on-camera! Don’t worry; I wasn’t driving and filming. These episodes, just like episodes of my previous podcast, Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick, have been uploaded to YouTube all along, but all audio-only. Why get on camera now? Doesn’t that run counter to my goal of turning on a mic, talking, and taking the path of least resistance toward getting it out to you? It doesn’t have to. I talk about it in the episode. I also
Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates is my audio journal as an independent author, creator, and creative services provider. In this episode, the subject is changing mailing list service providers, and how the process revealed two personality / psychological traits of mine that might benefit from a closer look… This episode was recorded on April 13, 2025, in the mobile studio of MWS Media in and around Huntington Beach, California. Links and Topics Mentioned in This Episode Kit, formerly known as ConvertKit, a popular mailing list service provider. Kit founder Nathan Barry and his podcast. Sendy, sel
Here it is, folks: the inauspicious debut of my latest podcast, Matthew Wayne Selznick Creates. What is This? I talked about it in Sonitotum with Matthew Wayne Selznick 107. This new show is my platform to simply… talk to you. Mostly about creating and the creative life as I (attempt to) live it, and so, mostly, to do with writing. But not just about those things. Which was one of the issues that kept me from recording and releasing Sonitotum episodes: the scope of that show was “making stuff, finding success as we each define it for ourselves, and staying healthy and sane in the process.” Wha
