The Narrative Podcasts blog: all things scripted podcasting, short-form narrative, and creative living

… 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


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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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Recommendation: A Most Beautiful Thing, memoir by Arshay Cooper

Review and recommendation for A Most Beautiful Thing, by Arshay Cooper: a gripping memoir that checks all the great sports book (and storytelling) boxes. A race-through-it read full of lessons for audio storytelling, scripted podcasting, and short-form narrative.

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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