Take a break from your phone. Don't tell people what you're working on. Look out the window and keep looking. In this episode of the Quarantine Quill, we turn to Iowa Writers' Workshop director Lan Samantha Chang and her twelve tips on cultivating an inner life.

The Quarantine Quill is a creative writing podcast hosted by Anna Polonyi with the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. The podcast will be bringing you a daily writing tip and prompt for as long as PICT's creative writing events are on hold due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Mentioned in this episode: Lan Samantha Chang's 2016 Napa Valley Writers' Conference lecture, adapted for an article called "Writers, Protect Your Inner Life" on Literary Hub.

Featured guest: Ellen McQueen from Paris, France.

Music: Carole Cassier.

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