In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

In this eleventh episode, I have the pleasure of talking to Roger Langridge, award-winning cartoonist, and writer of one of my favourite comics, Thor: The Mighty Avenger. He talks about his desire for fame as a cartoonist and how he matured past that need.

Thank you for listening to this series.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The tenth episode is with my one of my oldest and closest friends, Willard Foxton-Todd, who guest-starred on a couple of Toolkit episodes. An award-winning producer of television and podcasts, Will talks about his yearning to write personal fiction and the sense of worth attached to that process.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The ninth episode is with John McLean-Foreman. A narrative designer for various game companies, he discusses his burn out from that industry and his reasons for moving to writing a self-help book.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The eighth episode is with Gavin Verhey, a game designer for Magic: The Gathering. We talk about how Gavin's desire to write and how fulfilling a creative outlet game design can be.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The seventh episode is with Jonny White, an academic scholar of psychology and entrepreneur. With a strong love for story and desire to write his own works, I chatted to him about his standards of success and the process of over-intellectualising the creative act and analysis paralysis.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The sixth episode is Daniel Joshua Rubin, author of 27 Essential Principles of Story: Master the Secrets of Great Storytelling, from Shakespeare to South Park. DJR talks about living the life of a writer and the bizarre eddies of trying to make it in LA, in one entertaining anecdote after another.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The fifth epsisode is Adam Maxwell, author of the Kilchester crime-comedy novel series, talking about how negative criticism in his career caused him to quit writing for two years.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The fourth episode is with Shannon O'Neill, a published writer who talks about learning the craft of writing through studying the processes of many different writers, writing courses, and community retreats.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The third episode is with Jason Jillings, a childhood friend who has written and produced plays with both myself and Luke. Jason talks about the difficulty of trying to write when your full time-job uses all the same creative muscles, and how writing as part of a team eases his doubts about his talent.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The second episode is with Ashlea Erin, an Toolkit listener who wants to writer. Ashela chose to talk about the feelings of imposter syndrome.

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