Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

[Leigh Medeiros, Part 1]: The power of figuring out your own Venn diagram of interests + some pretty awesome attention hacks Ep 1035


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Lee Medeiros is an award-winning screenwriter, author, and all-around creative who, when she isn't making her own work, is helping others make theirs. Leigh is the author of the One Minute Writer, 396 Micro Prompts to Spark Creativity and Recharge Your Writing. She also writes a column for Script Magazine called The Climate Screenwriter, is the co-producer of the Writing Climate Pitch Fest, and founded the Linden Place Writer's Residency in Bristol, Rhode Island.

I am lucky enough to know Leigh in person, and every time I see her, I feel like my batteries get recharged and I just wanna give her a huge hug and take in every word that she says, like manna from heaven.

In this first part of her interview, we unpack:

How screenwriting is like a bad boyfriend

How her focus on writing screenplays with a climate angle is the perfect intersection of her personal Venn diagram

Using fellowships to spur new ideas (whether you actually get them or not)

The podcasts that lit a fire under Leigh’s butt to start writing about climate

How “merging your siloes” uplevels your work and your being

Leigh’s morning cacao ceremony and the unexpected beings she shares it with

The hacks she uses to stay focused when actually trying to, you know, write

Superheroes have capes–writers should have a talisman, too


For detailed show notes, with links to everything we discuss--plus bonus photos!-- visit katehanley.substack.com.

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