Tranquility du Jour #353: Wild Women, Wild Voices
Tranquility du Jour
Kimberly Wilson
4.6 • 554 Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2015
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Wild Women, Wild Voices with Judy Reeves. Learn how to deal with your critic, write about your shadow side, and tap into your senses with writing.
Enjoy this Washington Post article I mention about the turkey feed I went to over the weekend.
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Judy Reeves is a writer, teacher, and writing practice provocateur who has written four books on writing. Her work has appeared in magazines, journals, and anthologies and on the spoken word compilation First Friday: Year 3. She has edited several books and chapbooks, including Brown Bag Anthology, a collection of writings from the first five years of her writing practice groups at The Writing Center, a nonprofit literary arts organization, which she cofounded.
In addition to leading writing practice groups, which she has done for over seventeen years, Judy holds private workshops, teaches at University of California San Diego Extension; San Diego Writers, Ink; and writing conferences internationally. She is a regular speaker at the Southern California Writers Conferences, where she is especially known for her lively, late-night Rogues read-and-critique workshops. In 2004, she cofounded San Diego Writers, Ink, with a committed group of volunteers, and served as its executive director.
Born in the Midwest, Judy has traveled throughout the world. She is forever grateful to her father for bringing their family to San Diego, where she currently lives.
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| 0:00.0 | Tranquility DeJure, November 9, 2015. |
| 0:08.7 | Bonjour, this is Kimberly Wilson, and welcome to the 353rd edition of Tranquility DeJure. |
| 0:18.0 | Today's episode is Wild Women, Wild Voices, with the lovely writer Judy Reeves. |
| 0:24.8 | Learn how to deal with your inner critic. Yes, we all have one. Write about your shadow side, |
| 0:30.3 | and we all have one of those too, and tap into your senses with your writing. As I mentioned in last week's podcast, this month and maybe even |
| 0:40.8 | in December, I'm going to be doing weekly podcast because I've recorded so many. I've done so many |
| 0:45.3 | amazing interviews with amazing people that I want to get them out. I want to get them in your hands, |
| 0:51.2 | into your ears as soon as possible. So they will be coming your way every week. |
| 0:57.2 | And so I know for a lot of you, you're used to the every other week. And so my hope is that you'll |
| 1:02.3 | see this as a bonus. And those of you who are used to the every other week format, you'll have |
| 1:07.0 | some catching up to do maybe over the holidays. And then probably in the new year we'll return back to our every other week. |
| 1:13.8 | I've just been interviewing so many amazing people. |
| 1:17.6 | And so I realize I've got some interviews that I did a couple months ago and I don't want them to have to wait anymore to get out to you. |
| 1:24.6 | So I hope you are enjoying the weekly ones. And if you have a moment to share your |
| 1:29.8 | thoughts or to pin a review on iTunes, we always appreciate any sort of feedback that you can give. |
| 1:35.4 | It helps other people find our show. And, you know, we've been doing this for a little over 10 years. |
| 1:40.5 | So it's fun to get tranquilityJure out into more listeners and ideally more |
| 1:46.4 | tranquility out into the world. |
| 1:48.5 | Also a heads up that the Tranquility DeJure Day books are shipping this week. |
| 1:52.9 | So a big thank you to everyone who preordered and we have about 70 copies left. |
| 1:57.3 | So if you'd like yours, you can grab it at Kimberlywilson.com. So this weekend we went out to |
| 2:03.7 | a celebration for the turkeys, which was this really funny event at this animal sanctuary called |
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