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Advice I Hope to Follow

A mini-podcast about creativity. Each episode was created for a single day in April of 2025.

2025-04-01

Everything is a Remix (Episode 01)

Go ahead, take an artsy photograph of that duck.
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2025-04-01
2025-04-02

Only You (Episode 02)

If there’s nothing new under the sun, what is worth creating? Why make art when everything has already been done?
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2025-04-02
2025-04-03

Be Concise (Episode 03)

Omit needless words.
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2025-04-03
2025-04-04

Don’t Be Concise (Episode 04)

Often, the point is not the point.
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2025-04-04
2025-04-05

Surf (Episode 05)

Intellect can only take us so far.
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2025-04-05
2025-04-06

Outline, Deadline, Lifeline (Episode 06)

Three tips for when you get stuck. An anti-writer’s block mantra. But also, maybe the opposite, too.
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2025-04-06
2025-04-07

The Last Person on Earth (Episode 07)

Would you still create without an audience?
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2025-04-07
2025-04-08

Like the First Time (Episode 08)

Foreigner, Bryan Adams, and YouTuber John Green all agree on today’s tip.
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2025-04-08
2025-04-09

The Contents of Storage Unit 01-03462 (Episode 09)

In which Douglas Beagley sees a newspaper article in Seven Days.
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2025-04-09
2025-04-10

Don’t Write What You Know (Episode 10)

In the tenth episode of the Advice I Hope to Follow, we contradict the most famous advice in writing.
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2025-04-10
2025-04-11

Color the Mystery (Episode 11)

In today’s episode, we open a coloring book.
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2025-04-11
2025-04-12

Speak For the Animal (Episode 12)

Turn the dialect between your parts into art.
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2025-04-12
2025-04-13

Decide (Episode 13)

Any direction is better than no direction.
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2025-04-13
2025-04-14

Everything Must Go (Episode 14)

It’s the end of the world. Every day.
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2025-04-14
2025-04-15

Provide the Soundtrack (Episode 15)

Silent movies are still a thing. And they give us endless creative prompts.
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2025-04-15
2025-04-16

Contradict Yourself (Episode 16)

Embrace your contradictions. We don’t know what we know. We might not even like what we like.
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2025-04-16
2025-04-17

Learn from Will (Episode 17)

Write ’till your ink be dry, and with your tears, moisten it again.
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2025-04-17
2025-04-18

Don’t Take Advice (Episode 18)

There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
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2025-04-18
2025-04-19

Take a Moment (Episode 19)

Put in the time.
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2025-04-19
2025-04-20

Know Your Script (Episode 20)

Is our script a problem, or an opportunity?
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2025-04-20
2025-04-21

Answer the Wail (Episode 21)

In accents disconsolate, answer the wail of the forest.
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2025-04-21
2025-04-22

Ira Glass is Wrong (Episode 22)

Young upstart radio host questions the value of creating and considers quitting.
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2025-04-22
2025-04-23

Commit (Episode 23)

Neglect everything else.
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2025-04-23
2025-04-24

Take It Easy (Episode 24)

How do you create light from water?
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2025-04-24
2025-04-25

Swipe Right (Episode 25)

Your ideas are flirting with you.
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2025-04-25
2025-04-26

Breathe (Episode 26)

You are a balloon. Or, like, a tire.
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2025-04-26
2025-04-27

Be an Early Warning System (Episode 27)

Don’t be didactic. But also, be didactic.
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2025-04-27
2025-04-28

Wonder (Episode 28)

The ultimate creative advice, in a single word.
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2025-04-28
2025-04-29

Hoard (Episode 29)

Your brain is like that table next to the door where everything ends up. Don’t fight it.
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2025-04-29
2025-04-30

Walk Away (Episode 30)

All good things…
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2025-04-30

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