Podcast Episodes

Writing "mean" stuff

Season 1 Episode 209

I write things for my books that I consider pointing the finger out, then turn the finger back at myself. It's a relief to be hypocritical.

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11 hours ago

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Selling kills my writing

Season 1 Episode 208

I was a literary poet, then moved to instapoet. And still trying to find that place where I can write a book that works both off and on a social medi…

1 week ago

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Good things are happening when things are going bad

Season 1 Episode 207

Nearly everytime some good has been invisibly growing away in the background, it just travels slowly and invisibly.

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2 weeks ago

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Never giving up when you want to

Season 1 Episode 206

Art life is mostly thankless and working in the dark. It can't be done any other way.

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3 weeks ago

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A book that breaks free from social media and has its own life

Season 1 Episode 205

I'm keen for a book that has its own life independent of social media. I'm not an 'influencer' but that's the tax one pays for being able to avoid th…

4 weeks ago

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Poetry - the building block for novelists

Season 1 Episode 204

They say poetry is the first thing you learn before moving towards writing in other genres. I never thought I would.

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1 month, 1 week ago

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Authors who no longer write from a personal emergency

Season 1 Episode 203

Helen Garner said she struggled to write a follow up to her big book "The First Stone" as she needed to write from a personal emergency. I'm finding …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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I got sick of my own writing

Season 1 Episode 202

Changing up style and voice is a bit of a struggle but I'm no stranger to it. You lose social media traction and you lose and audience but the heart …

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Why your work sounds like you even when you're trying not to

Season 1 Episode 201

This episode: Keep on making stuff until it's the mess you've made outside of the focus of the work that is actually yours.

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2 months ago

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How I improved my writing

Season 1 Episode 200

Something happens in your late 30s, you recognise all the patterns of crap. Then into my 40s I started challenging my worldview. And that's when my w…

2 months, 1 week ago

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