Favel Parrett is the award-winning Australian author of Past the Shallows, When the Night Comes, There Was Still Love, Wandi and Kimmi.

In this episode, Favel talks about daydreaming as her creative superpower, becoming a writer, dealing with rejection, drafting again and again, and learning to trust a creative process that doesn’t always make sense while you’re inside it.

We talk about the extraordinary journey of Past the Shallows, the role sensitivity plays in Favel’s work, writing scenes out of order, finding stories through memory, and the realities of building and sustaining a life as a writer.

Favel also shares the simple question from her brother that helped change the direction of her career:

“Somebody gets published, like, why not you?”

We also hear about her new novel, One for Sorrow, coming in November through Hachette Australia — and discover the slightly unexpected creative pursuit Favel keeps just for herself.

Secret Creative Life is a podcast about the lives behind the work.

Mentioned in this episode:
Men Without Women (1927) — Ernest Hemingway

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Kelly Baigent has spent more than three decades working across animation and live-action filmmaking, with a career that has taken him from Walt Disney and Anastasia to Animal Logic, The Lego Batman Movie and the Peter Rabbit films.

In this episode, Kelly talks about the people who shaped him, learning to deal with criticism, adapting as the industry changes, and what happened when he found himself directing on a live-action film set for the first time.

We also talk about collaboration, Tales from Outer Suburbia, the value of the creative process itself, and the creative passion Kelly has quietly maintained outside his professional work.

If you love animation, filmmaking, or simply hearing about the life behind the creative process, this is an in-depth conversation about more than 30 years spent making things — and what keeps a creative person making them.