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December 07, 2022 84. Bennett Madison's Permission to Let Go
What do you do when you've established a writing career and then it's not giving you what you came for? What does it look like to be a person who writes but whose entire identity isn't wrapped up in Being a Writer? Is there life on the other side, if you can just let go? Bennett Madison joins me for the first time since 2013 to talk about the work of deprofessionalizing his writing life to pivot to joy in creative work--and a steady paycheck doing something else.

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54 min
December 03, 2022 TCL Archives: Bennett Madison in 2013
One from the 2013 archives to get you ready for next week's episode, when Bennett Madison comes back for the Pivots, Comebacks, and Reinventions series.
40 min
November 30, 2022 TCL Mini: Year In Review
New full episode next week!

Until then, here's the audio version of this week's newsletter, with a question for YOU about your dream writing podcast.

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9 min
November 23, 2022 TCL Mini: Writing In Reality
Letting go of the idealized version of your writing experience.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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8 min
October 26, 2022 TCL Mini: Creative Rest
The audio version of this week's newsletter on resting before making the next creative decision.

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10 min
October 19, 2022 83. Tara Altebrando Is Solving the Puzzle
In the third episode in the Comebacks, Pivots, and Reinventions series, my longtime friend and one-time (?) collaborator Tara Altebrando talks to me about her multiple pivots over a couple of decades as a working writer, and the driving forces behind those choices. Currently, she's working in scripted audio as the creator and writer of the Dream Breachers podcast at Pinna Audio and the President of Listen Like Thieves Productions.

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Dream Breachers

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46 min
October 05, 2022 82. Malinda Lo Never Went Away
In the second episode in the Comebacks, Pivots, and Reinventions series, Malinda Lo and I talk about her huge year with Last Night at the Telegraph Club and what it has meant for her writing and life. But is it really a "comeback" if she never went away in the first place? Also we talk about her brand new book, A Scatter of Light.

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47 min
September 21, 2022 81. Faith Gardner Takes Control (Comebacks, Pivots, and Reinventions)
When author Faith Gardner grew frustrated with the slowly grinding gears of traditional publishing and wanted to spread her wings a bit, she took matters into her own hands.

This is the first episode of this fall's Comebacks, Pivots, and Reinventions series!

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52 min
September 02, 2022 Comebacks, Pivots, and Reinventions - Coming Fall 2022
What's coming this fall from This Creative Life!

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4 min
June 29, 2022 TCL Mini: Writing When It Doesn't Feel Like It Matters
When it feels like the world is burning down, is writing something you want to save from the fire?

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7 min

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Listen between the lines of the writing life with author Sara Zarr in interview and solo episodes, with a focus on the practical and psychological aspects of writing and publishing, the creative…