In last’s week’s episode, I briefly touched on the positive impact a punk rock mentality has had on my creative output.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized the multitude of lessons I have learned from the world of punk rock.

As such, in episode #127 of The Writing Coach podcast, I reveal ten lessons writers can take from the world of punk rock.

Listen to the full episode now or read the transcript below. 

The Writing Coach Episode #127 Show Notes

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The Writing Coach Episode #127 Transcript

Hello beloved listeners, and welcome back to the writing coach podcast. It is your host as always writing coach Kevin T John’s here in last week’s episode, we talked about waiting for perfect. And I mentioned a little bit about my experience in the punk rock scene and how thankful I am that I grew up a punk rocker. And one of my clients right now who I’m working with on his book is still a punk rocker. He’s still in punk, rock bands, making music. And so he and I really connect on that level. And so I was telling them about last week’s podcast and it got me thinking, you know, there’s so many great lessons I learned from being a punk rocker that come into play every day as a writer. So what I wanna share in this episode is 10 lessons writers can learn from punk rockers.

Now it all began in 1991. I was 11 years old in 1991, and that was the year Nirvana’s album Nevermind came out and completely changed popular culture. It was the stake in the heart of the eighties, and it really birthed the nineties. And I, you know, I got that tape, that cassette tape along with everyone else that year and loved it. And around that time, where shortly after, as Nirvana was blowing up, Sonic youth released a video called The Year Punk Broke. And it was a documentary of the tour that Nirvana and Sonic youth, and some other bands all went on, I guess, around 1990 or early 91, it was just before Nirvana got huge. And I think that was really my introduction to the word punk to this idea of punk rock is Sonic youth calling themselves punk. And of course there’s so many different definitions of punk is, is Sonic Youth punk or is Fugazi punk or is Green Day punk?

I kind of consider all of it punk and speaking of Fugazi, so into Nirvana and I was reading a book, I believe it was called Route 666: On the Road to Nirvana. If I’m remembering the name of the book correctly, I’ll link to it in the show notes for this episode, so that you can get the right book, Head on over to www.kevintjohns.com and have the link to that great book there, it’s a really great book about the independent rock punk rock scene in the early nineties. And anyway, there were some great chapters about Fugazi in that book and that got Fugazi on my radar. And that was an introduction into kind of a deeper world of P. So, you know, from Nirvana to Sonic youth to Fugazi, and around this time a couple years after Nirv...

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.

Host Kevin T. Johns speaks with author Michelle Cornish.