Blah Di Da
By Darby Hudson
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Darby Hudson talks about the 'creative process' and muddling through life.
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Sleepwriting poems (I'm guilty of this)
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Jun 18, 2026 |
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Catching the spirit with art
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Jun 11, 2026 |
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My favourite artists disguise their effort
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Jun 04, 2026 |
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Where did the anti-heroes go?
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May 29, 2026 |
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Why I like "bad" poetry
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May 21, 2026 |
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30 years self publishing to traditional publishing
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May 15, 2026 |
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Laughing at myself and sometimes others
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May 08, 2026 |
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Writing about the most boring person I know: me
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Apr 30, 2026 |
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Resting is important to make quality art
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Apr 23, 2026 |
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Virality can be a trap for authors
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Instagram poetry line breaks drag me through poems
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Apr 09, 2026 |
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Finding your writing voice
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Apr 02, 2026 |
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A writing trick & what my 3rd book's about
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Mar 28, 2026 |
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When your weirdness finally fits into society (in the form of a book)
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Mar 19, 2026 |
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A writer's pilgrimage to LA
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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Forgetting my book is actually good
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Mar 05, 2026 |
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Writing a whole book as fast as I can
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Feb 26, 2026 |
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My new book for an artist's heart lost in the world
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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Borrowing the atmosphere of my favourite writers
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Feb 19, 2026 |
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The thing you are good at is hiding in plain sight
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Feb 05, 2026 |
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Planting stories in real-life locations
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Jan 29, 2026 |
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Getting my new book from publisher Andrews Mcmeel in the mail
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Jan 23, 2026 |
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Recording an audiobook - behind the scenes and some thoughts
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Jan 15, 2026 |
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Atmosphere over story
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Jan 08, 2026 |
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How I found energy after work to make art and break out of the jail of meaningless jobs
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Jan 01, 2026 |
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Revisiting my 2009 tweets wasn't a good idea
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Dec 19, 2025 |
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Finding my writing voice took the length equivalent of 4.5 PhDs
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Writing update....
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Dec 04, 2025 |
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Writing is the hardest work I've ever done
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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5 years on writing full time after quitting my job
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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Following the Art Spirit through darkness into light
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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Just make something good
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Nov 06, 2025 |
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Trying to remember my book is magic, not a unit to sell
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Oct 30, 2025 |
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I've become more writer than human
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Oct 23, 2025 |
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Signing me book that's just out
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Oct 18, 2025 |
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The fear of sharing art to an audience
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Today is for people with art, tomorrow for people with plans
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Oct 02, 2025 |
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The need to create under a new patch of sky (live overseas)
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Sep 25, 2025 |
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Nervy thoughts on releasing a book
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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Never ending search for home
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Sep 11, 2025 |
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30 years of following the "art god"
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Sep 05, 2025 |
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Masculine and feminine energy in books
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Aug 28, 2025 |
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The BS of artists "making it" at a certain age
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Blending comedy and poetry
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Aug 14, 2025 |
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Modern poetry all sounds the same for a reason
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Creative theft or just whinging?
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Borrowing the essence of classic books
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Jul 17, 2025 |
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Good art makes everything else seem like it's pretending
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Jul 10, 2025 |
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Sometimes books are home
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Jul 04, 2025 |
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Writing my way out of mental straitjackets
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Jun 26, 2025 |
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Art is a passport to travel the world
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Jun 19, 2025 |
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The average age of best selling authors is 48-52
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Jun 12, 2025 |
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I swapped cynicism for wonder and my life changed
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Jun 05, 2025 |
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Art is a passport to the heart
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May 29, 2025 |
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The magic, quiet eye of mum's storm
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May 22, 2025 |
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How many followers I needed before publishers came knocking (250k)
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May 15, 2025 |
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15 Years Writing with Beers by the Tracks — The Best Part of My Day
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May 08, 2025 |
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Writing from character (more on mum)
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May 01, 2025 |
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More on Mum's book
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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Mum's voice and my voice. And writing mum's voice.
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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You're Dangerous When You Make Something Beautiful
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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Mum: and the alive things she told me before she died
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Creative burnout and managing social media
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Apr 03, 2025 |
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Writing memes
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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Sometimes the truth sounds like the truth (when it isn't)
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Mar 20, 2025 |
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My favourite art alleviates the burden of time
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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When storytelling loses its power
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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Finding true things in a world of BS
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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Creativity under pressure - some thoughts on RuPauls Drag Race
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Fear and good art don't belong together
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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I can't be creative in summer
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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40 is when writers arrive into themselves
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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Thoughts on The Exorcist (book) and vibes in the air
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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Balancing cynicism and magic
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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Becoming an artist by becoming bad at everything else
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Jan 09, 2025 |
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Tapping the magic of being an old fart
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Jan 02, 2025 |
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Australian art legend Michael Leunig's influence and advice to me
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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Fast witty thinkers VS slow deep thinkers
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Dec 26, 2024 |
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Turning the love of art into a job
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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Writing stuff that's just for me
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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Jay the street writer - interview
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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Stuck on the couch - boring episode
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Nov 28, 2024 |
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Josh Turek, poet and comedian interview
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Nov 21, 2024 |
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You need a thin and thick skin to write and promomote your work
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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Writing breakthroughs have no linear progression
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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My best stuff comes from beyond me
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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Balancing chaos and routine for creativity
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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30 years to find an audience (it took me)
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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Writers block - things I do to kill it
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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Other peoples stories are medicine
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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Do I regret dedicating a life to writing, thoughts and ideas?
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Sep 26, 2024 |
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Creativity is cart before the horse before the cliff
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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Life and death and writing
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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Taking a break from writing
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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Writing my new book with small-big thoughts (out today!)
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Stuff learned from my first spoken word performance
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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In praise of reading not to learn
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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Thoughts on putting together my live show
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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Making something out of nothing
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Productivity and creativity hate each other
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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The hidden door in rock bottom
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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The horror of time
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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Lessons from a hangover
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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Exploiting myself for ideas I'd never thought I'd publish
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Courageous artists: be the first to say the thing
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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Best bits from 88 episodes of this podcast (some of them)
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Zero expecations allow creativity to happen
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May 30, 2024 |
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Smuggling your weirdness through years of the cult of sensible
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May 23, 2024 |
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A hundred bad ideas to write a single good one
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May 16, 2024 |
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The sum of our artistic influences... and our life
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May 09, 2024 |
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The endless daily creative defeats make me grumpy
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May 02, 2024 |
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We love to make meaning out of everything
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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I've got an inner waggy pissed off cat's tail and an outer waggy happy dog's tail
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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Balancing Sensible Self and Crazy Self (to pay bills and make art)
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Your old ideas that never found an audience are the most important
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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Unexplained happiness
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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I know who I am and after all these years there's a victory in that
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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The duty to make art in a shit culture
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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Memes and culture
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Thinking out loud has changed the way I write
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Writing in 'beginner mode' and poetry as a baseline to find one's voice
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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A little about writing me new book, WORKING NINE LIVES
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Finishing a book project and starting the next
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Following your dreams
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Making art for no audience
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Jan 26, 2024 |
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Selling out to myself
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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Creative breakthroughs by not giving a shit
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Documenting the writing process for one of me videos
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Jan 04, 2024 |
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Walking to the supermarket in the no mans land between Christmas and New Years
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Physical frailty and creating beyond oneself
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Every creative breakthrough I've had across 40 years
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Dec 14, 2023 |
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One idea leads to the next
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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Sticking up poems around the streets and talking to myself
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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Shit podcast episode where I was out of ideas
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Getting out of the way of yourself in creativity
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Finding momentum to keep creating
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Find out who you are and do it on purpose
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Writing my way out of straightjackets and 2 other random ideas I had this week
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Finding your voice in creativity with your actual voice
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Catching the emotional truth of what I'm writing about
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Starsigns and creativity - skip this if starsigns ain't your thing!
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Nows the time to create in a world distracted by politics
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Creative breakthroughs
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Interview with Tommy Attwood, writer/illustrator
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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How I've been able to pay the rent writing poetry
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Honouring my 8 year old self's decisions to make books
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Have faith in shit ideas: from 200 views of a poem, to half a million (with the same poem)
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Limiting myself creatively to free myself creatively
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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I often make my brain to ask itself: what would legs do?
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Making art while working a full time job: art before the horse
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Half baked ideas I've been playing with
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Jul 28, 2023 |
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Creatives need breaks to be improve
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Great art lets you see the world for what it is
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Road Trip to free up creativity
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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Charles Bukowski, poet, and what I've learned from him
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Making stuff from mess and it's easier than ever to be an individual
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Waking life runs on dream logic more than we probably care to admit
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Cats and creativity
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Self censoring making art
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Dressing my words in pyjamas by handwriting
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May 25, 2023 |
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Reaching the edge of culture and creating my own world
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May 18, 2023 |
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Poems that shake me alive
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May 11, 2023 |
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"UM": my little (big) book I've made that's sort of a self help for creatives
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May 04, 2023 |
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I applied for 2500 jobs with the stupidest resume
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Balancing darkness and light in poetry
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Searching for truth and wisdom in unlikely places
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Adulting in a creative life
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Creativity in trying-not-trying
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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The past is a foreign country
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Self publishing isn't a dirty word
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Second week off writing thoughts
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Creative burnout - relaxing is hard work
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Editing, writing and painting my new book CONFETTI TORNADO
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Comedians tell the truth more than poets these days
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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Earning years of life to earn poetry
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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Ideas I had this week that didn't quite work
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Finding ideas/wisdom/truth outside the popular opinion of the crowd
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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The Wizard Of Oz and The Never Ending Story are documentaries
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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11 poems, artists & places that have greatly inspired me
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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Spirits (and other random weekly stuff while walking around talking shit into my phone)
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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I wrote this episode by walking
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Dec 14, 2022 |
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Using booze as a tool to write
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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Sport tactics and psychology that have helped my art
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Writing routine and how social media engagement helps put a book together
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Nov 23, 2022 |
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Are our stories worth telling over and over?
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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Finding your voice through perfect truths, imperfectly said
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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The courage (and stupidity) to say what everyone's thinking and no one's saying
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Detectives and Poets do the same job
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Creativity that comes from living years of life
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Oct 15, 2022 |
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How I got into writing and the sisyphean weirdness of writing for social media
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Thoughts on writing and the creative process
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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When art or music saves your life, you're ready to be an artist.
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Oct 07, 2022 |