First Draft Episode #301: Sara Zarr

Podcast chat! A conversation with Sara Zarr, National Book Award finalist author of eight novels for young adults, most recently Goodbye from Nowhere, about her creative writing podcast, This Creative Life.

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Links to Topics Mentioned In This Episode:

• Hear Sara’s first First Draft interview here.

• Hear Sarah on This Creative Life here.

• I also outlined all the equipment I use for podcasting in this TechCrunch article, “How I Podcast.”

• Terry Gross, host of NPR’s Fresh Air podcast

• Marc Maron, host of the WTF podcast

• Pete Holmes, host of the You Made it Weird podcast

• Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, winner of the 2018 Printz Award, and other contemporary YA titles like Everything Leads to You and Hold Still, . Hear her episodes of First Draft here and here.

• LibSyn, the podcast hosting service

• Patreon

• Sara is no longer using SubStack to distribute her podcast, which she discusses in this episode of This Creative Life: “Substack and Failure.”

• Sara’s book Courageous Creativity: Advice and Encouragement for the Creative Life

• GarageBand

• Best Self Co. Six-Month Journal

• Acuity Scheduling

• Doodle

• Krista Tippett, host of the On Being podcast

• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Audacity

• Shure microphones

• Adobe Audition

• Zoom H2N

• Zoom H6N

• AirTable

 

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