The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Twenty-Five I’m welcoming my first guest for the second season today – Nicole Avery. Nicole is the creator of Planning With Kids, one of the biggest and best parenting blogs in the country. As a mother of five, she brings a wealth of experience to her content and advice and what…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Twenty-Four Most of you know I’m a big believer in creativity challenges – this episode of the podcast focuses on the kinds that are fun. If you’re playing a game, it feels like less work. (Hopefully!) Books, Topics Discussed and Recommended Reading Trust the Process: 101 Tips on Writing and Creativity by…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Twenty-Three Many famous authors are also famous diarists – and others have either outgrown or dislike the practice. I fall into the ‘pro’ note-taking camp and will give the reasons why a writer might consider adopting the habit, why I actually gave it up and now why I’m doing it again. Books,…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Twenty-Two The podcast is back! I promised, so I delivered. I recorded this episode with such a mixture of feelings: excitment (yay – I’m doing a thing!) to trepidation (wait – I forget how to do this, will I stuff it up?) to nervousness (what if I suck?). I almost feel like…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Twenty-One This is a special episode to finish the first season of The Creative Life podcast – a recording of my keynote speech at the recent Small Press Network Independent Publishing Conference. The theme was ‘Why Wait?’ and covers a wide range of topics including my formative years, university, blogging,…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Twenty This episode is about something I’ve done on my blog for the past couple of years that I thought would be applicable to those of us who like to assess project progression and on the basis of those successes or failures (or somewhere in between) decide where to head…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Nineteen In this episode, I am joined by Fiona Wood, author of young adult novels, Six Impossible Things, Wildlife and Cloudwish. She has worked as a television scriptwriter and is an ambassador for The Stella Prize Schools Program. You can find her on her website and Twitter. Books Mentioned The…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Eighteen My guest is Darrell Pitt, author of A Toaster on Mars and the Jack Mason Adventures, a series of five novels including The Firebird Mystery, which was a Notable book in the 2015 CBCA awards. He was the first self-published author for Text Publishing to sign on, and it was the…
The Creative Life Podcast: Episode Seventeen I know introverts working in the arts can struggle with self-confidence. How do we cultivate it within ourselves when so much of what we do is based on feedback, gatekeepers, stakeholders, audiences and more? It can be tricky. Books Mentioned Quiet by Susan Cain. (She also has the Quiet Revolution…
