Running any business is tiring, but when your title reads: writer, editor, actor, head of marketing, and Owner, you’re almost certainly burning the candle at both ends and the middle. But every machine needs an engine and engines need fuel, so when your fires start running low, you need to know how to stir the embers back into life.

The article from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution mentioning Garfield's Crossing: https://www.ajc.com/life/arts-culture/local-scripted-podcasts-craft-spellbinding-tales/JPA6UFZ6EJGWHKFUJA4O3KEY4M/?fbclid=IwAR2pTY5USihmccTRcZBDI54Ude56VC66bpDYyqEIqGw1kEFCpIQNkwu8Kdo

Artists, by nature, have strong feelings about their work and think in unique ways. Managing a team of them can be like herding cats. As our guest Ben Bowlin of iHeartRadio knows, the higher up you get in the game, it’s a lot more like herding lions.

If you work on a creative project long enough, there comes a point where the project has to change to survive or die of stagnation...leaving you with two options, refuse evolution, or engage it. In this episode, we talk about how we embraced our growing pains, and changed our flagship project, Garfield’s Crossing, from an audiobook-style podcast, to an audio-drama with a full voice cast.

In the 21st century, the landscape of media is vast and ever-expanding. For storytellers the places where one can find inspiration and influences are endless. If you’re someone like James David Patrick, and you’ve surveyed the landscape enough, you can come up with some pretty cool media projects of your own.

Cinema Shame: https://cinemashame.wordpress.com/

James Bond Social Media Project: http://thejamesbondsocialmediaproject.com/

30 Hertz Rumble: https://thirtyhertzrumble.com/

Part of storytelling is building a world for your audience. With art, you might use paint and ink. With film, it’s moving images. With audio drama you build with sound. In this episode, our very own Clayton Romero is gonna break down how he uses sound to create a world, and we’re gonna give you a preview of our first complete episode for Version 2.0 of the Garfield’s Crossing Podcast.

Garfield’s Crossing - www.garfieldscrossing.com

When you spend enough time working in any field, you can develop an intuitive sense for the lay of the land. If you’re Ben Bowlin, a veteran producer & host, you can use that skill to blaze new trails in the Wild West of the podcast frontier.

Ridiculous History
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-ridiculous-history-28588696/

Stuff They Don’t Want You To Know
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/182-stuff-they-dont-want-you-t-26941221/

Wading through the murky waters of culture in a divided country, especially a region like the American South, can be a challenging task. If you’re someone like Sean Powers, you can use media to build bridges of understanding to span those cultural divides.

Podcasts from Georgia Public Broadcasting:
https://www.gpb.org/podcasts

For the inexperienced writer, writing consists of sitting around with your kite and key waiting for lightning to strike. As a writer matures, you realize if you build a generator you can harvest all the lighting you want. In this episode we talk about our own process as writers.

When a great story takes root in a writer’s mind, there’s nothing that can stop it from growing and finding life in the real world. Atlanta filmmaker, Bret Wood discusses how he transitioned from cinema to audiodrama to get his stories told.

Bret Wood’s Filmography: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0939584/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Trailer for “Those Who Deserve To Die”: https://youtu.be/vil4wO_K8Ig

Listen to “The Control Group”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-control-group/id1391782679

Listen to “The Seventh Daughter”: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-seventh-daughter-56454981/

Creativity can be a fickle mistress. She can be tender when times are hard and frigid when the going gets good. We’re gonna discuss how to sweet talk those muses into stepping out onto the dancefloor, time after time.