creative-writing
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The following is a transcript of Episode 3 of The Divine Dissatisfaction podcast. Click here to listen to the episode. A few months ago, I wrote a blog focused on TV shows that capture the creative process. I’ll include a link to the post in my show notes, but essentially what I was talking about was my love for
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This is a transcript of Episode 1: Encased from The Divine Dissatisfaction Podcast. Click here to listen to the episode. Here where I live in southwestern Ontario, we have, not often, but definitely more often than we used to, these periods of freezing rain. And on those mornings, I take my dog to the park, and we
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As a structure-focused/structure-first kind of writer, I spend a lot of time before I really begin drafting on brainstorming and organizing scene ideas and essentially looking to see the larger patterns of the story emerging. I’m essentially spending a lot of time upfront working with the story’s structure on a macro level. I thought this
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When I teach closed form poetry, I’ll often use a clip from Taskmaster, a British TV show that features celebrities (primarily comedians) competing in a series of often ridiculous challenges. Each task has specific rules, and most of the time there’s always some time pressure element, and that can lead to some spectacular failures, but