Episode 250: Celebrating 250 Episodes

Today on Fable and the Verbivore, we’re sharing our 250th episode and taking the opportunity to look back and celebrate this moment!

Confession, we aren’t particularly good at sticking with things over a long period of time and we’re pretty shocked to be crossing this milestone — which makes this accomplishment all the more sweet.

That said, we’ve also taken some steps over the last several years to allow this podcast to change and pivot as needed and we open by taking about some of them. Things like:

  • Taking short breaks

  • Varying what topics we’re leaning into in different seasons

  • Looking at what we’ve done previously and asking what it could become

  • Following our interest and purposefully seeking out ideas and concepts that make us curious

We also dig into the different types of conversations we’ve had over the years and highlight some episodes that particularly stand out to us. For example:

  • Guest Author Conversations - Marvel Characters w/ MJ McGriff, Wanda Vision w/ K. T. Anglehart, and Lord of the Rings Characters w/ Kieran (Mate) Lamoureux & Stephanie Ascough

  • Author Interviews - Tiffany Clarke Harrison (two parts) and many more

  • Vulnerable and Personal Conversations - Already worthy, Rating and assessing our writing

  • Book Club - Caraval, The Hate U Give, Six of Crows, Uprooted & Cinder, Mexican Gothic, Jurassic Park, Craft books, Recent reads

  • Romance - Building romantic chemistry and connection (two parts), The progression of physical intimacy -

Thanks so much for joining us to mark this exciting milestone and for engaging with us here! We’re so greateful for you!

If you like what we’re doing here, please consider leaving a review. If you’ve just found us, we’re listing some favorite episodes in the notes. And we can’t wait to share our next episodes here with you!

We hope you enjoy this episode! Keep reading, writing, and putting your voice out there!

Into the woods,

Fable & The Verbivore

Notes:

The Verbivore talks about how we naturally become habituated to our lives and the idea of dishabituation as a way to keep life fresh and us noticing the good things that are there. This GQ article titled “Why We Get Bored of the Best Things in Life—and How to Fight It” is a pretty good overview and references the book Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There by Tali Sharot and  Cass R. Sunstein

In this episode, we reference back to a number of episodes over our almost five years of podcasting. Here are a few:

We also touch on the authors that we’ve interviewed and connected with over the course of the podcast and how positive those conversations have been. Here is a link to those episodes:

And here are some of our other milestone celebration episodes:

Music from: https://filmmusic.io
‘Friendly day’ by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
Licence: CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Bethany Stedman