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… Books, podcasts, people, and processes to make you a better audio storyteller …

  • Media recommendations will serve one precise purpose: showing how that thing will improve your writing

  • Interviews and “today I talked to” posts will highlight inspiring, creative people and lessons we learned from them

  • Personal essay posts will offer quick tips on creative living and the highs and lows in our quest


Nate Davis Nate Davis

Orchids, succulents, and success

“Follow your passions.” You too have probably heard this as career advice, as all of us from Gen X on down are reacting against that dispiriting image of the grizzled Boomer Dad grimly reporting to his prison/factory job every day for 30 years, the spark of life gradually retreating from his eyes.

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“If you read good books, when you write, good books will come out of you.” — Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones