The Inner Loop Radio: A Creative Writing Podcast

Poet Nicole Tong turns the sameness of quarantine into comforting rituals and a beautiful Groundhog’s Day type poem in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Kyoko Mori, nonfiction and fiction writer, weaves the uncertainties of the presidential election, of childhood experience, of the spiritual world we confront at Halloween, and of writing itself into an evocative writing prompt and reflection on the habit of writing. She reminds us how physical exercise can compliment the act of writing, and shows us how stability can balance the uncertainty of sitting down to write in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Fiction writer Art Taylor shows us how to filter out the noise at home with music! And to use that music as a jumping-off point for a story. We hear how the Velvet Underground inspired one of his own stories, and how the simple process of checking in each day can keep your writing going in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Make space to discover the world right outside your window, but also use spacial editing to revise what you’ve written with fiction writer Melissa Scholes Young in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Unearth bits of joy with Cija Jefferson, nonfiction writer and host of Writers and Words, a Baltimore reading series. Cija invites us to find joy in emulating our favorite author, and she offers a few reading recommendations by contemporary black female authors in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Fiction writer and Director of Communications at The Writer’s Center, Zach Powers, encourages us to focus on how we use word choice and syntax to build tension in a scene, as well as how both writing and reading habits can keep us sane in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

As writers, we can get so bogged down in trying to convey figurative feeling that we forget about the magic that can be found in literal feeling. Join Co-Host and TIL Co-Founder Courtney Sexton as she tries to reach out and touch something small to trigger something big -- in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Those places where we get stuck in our writing are where we can find the most fruitful growth. Executive Producer Rachel Coonce shows us how to push through the discomfort, accept failure, and find the sun in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and prompts so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Nonfiction writer Timothy Denevi shows us tricks to turn memory into story and to shift our focus from current events to writing in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.

Poet Jose Padua uses a sink full of dishes and Kafka’s Metamorphosis to drive out the spleen and produce, produce, produce in this week’s episode of our Quarantine Inspiration Series: weekly mini-episodes that offer writing tips, inspiration, and a writing prompt so writers can keep writing through difficult times.