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The continuing tale of Erin and Cass crossing the country, getting lost, and finding an entirely new purpose for stale Mars bars.

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Intro music "Back on the Road Again" provided by Scott Holmes

A flat on the side of the highway, an overly-helpful giant trucker armed with a first aid kit and foil blankets, and the travelling road show of Erin and Cass continues across the prairies...

 

So excited! First Maker's episode! This is a supplement to the reading of Lily's Valley, which you can find on the Blissfully Writing podcast. In Maker's episodes we discuss creativity and the why and the how of Making All The Things. Today our topic is ... what drives you?

Creating is hard! It is much easier to NOT Make All The Things, to let someone else create, to be a spectator of the creative process rather than a participant... yet it is a compulsion! The Things MUST be Made, and for some mad reason, YOU, as a Maker, feel compelled to MAKE! Where does that drive come from? What questions are you driven to answer? Which voice in your head is the loudest, the voice that says you can't, or the voice that says you CAN?

Your take-away points:

Making is hard, but we love it!

Dig deep and try to understand WHY you’re doing it?

What are the questions you need to answer?

Let your answers be louder than your negations.

I hope this helps you the Make The Things! If you would like to listen to Lily's Valley in short episodes, you can start with Episode 1 right here.

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In episode two of Lily's Valley, Erin and Cass begin their journey across Canada in a stinky van with a weiner dog, a box of stale mars bars and a letter from Olive, Erin's Grandmother, promising a new life on the old family farm.

Welcome to the first episode of "Lily's Valley", by Libby Broadbent. "Lily's Valley" was a finalist in the 36th Atlantic Writing Competition hosted by the Writer's Federation of Nova Scotia.

Newly widowed and unemployed, with a fifteen-year-old daughter whose only wish is to live at the mall, Erin has nothing left to lose. Much against Cass’s wishes, the two drive across Canada in a rusty camper van loaded with a stinky weiner dog, a box of stale Mars bars and Erin’s childhood dream of renovating an old barn into a pub. Olive, her difficult grandmother, offers a home, security and a future in Sackville, New Brunswick, but the old homestead on the marsh harbours secrets within its walls and the ghost of a young girl whose voice cries on the wind. Their lives are colored by lies buried for decades, and it is only Cass’s determination to find the answers that can set them free, or send them all up in flames

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Hello and welcome to Blissfully Writing, a podcast for readers, writers and listeners. My name is Libby Broadbent, and if you have found yourself here then I hope you are looking for one of two things. Or both things. Or like me, All Of The Things. Perhaps you are a reader, a lover of story, of narrative, of fiction in all its forms including audio books. Perhaps you are looking for a podcast that is pure story… an audio book that is lighthearted and easy to listen to as you commute, or walk, or relax. This is the podcast for you! Season one offers the novel “Lily’s Valley”, read by the author, where you can listen to the novel from beginning to end, in 20 minute episodes, without commentary or interruption. Those episodes are clearly titled by chapter, with the first episode offering you a blurb of what the book is about to pique your interest.

But perhaps you are looking for more than just a narrative. Perhaps, you, like me, are a writer, a maker, a creator of all manner of things and you want to dig a little deeper into the creative process, the how and why of writing. Blissfullee Writing offers supplementary episodes where I explore the writing process. Where do ideas come from? How does a story come to life on the page? What is inspiration and technique and writer’s block and process? Writing is a lonely old business, you, and if you are like me, you are always seeking to learn more and dig deeper into source of where our stories live.