Angie and Elizabeth look at how the busy person (and who isn’t?) makes time, finds time, steals time for writing. How to have your writer’s toolbelt stocked and ready at all times, walking and dictating with app advice, writing while asleep, writing before you speak, writing in short sprints, in small windows, letting go, setting expectations and intentions, and giving up perfection--of circumstance and of product. We also touch on the infinite and mutable self, inspired free writing, creating complexity through meaningful contradictions, and stealing our idols’ approaches and attitudes. If you struggle to squeeze writing into your life, this is the episode for you.

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Story Makers is a podcast that features in-depth conversations with accomplished writers, filmmakers and industry experts about story craft, technique, habit and survival--everything you need to know to stay inspired, connect to your creativity, find others’ wonderful stories and your own success.

The hosts:

Elizabeth Stark is a published, agented novelist and distributed filmmaker who teaches and mentors writers at BookWritingWorld.com.

Angie Powers is a distributed filmmaker and published short story writer with an MFA in creative writing and a certificate in screenwriting from UCLA who teaches story structure at BookWritingWorld.com.