A mini-podcast about creativity. Each episode was created for a single day in April of 2025.
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?
2025-04-02
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Outline, Deadline, Lifeline (Episode 06)
Three tips for when you get stuck. An anti-writer’s block mantra. But also, maybe the opposite, too.
2025-04-06
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Like the First Time (Episode 08)
Foreigner, Bryan Adams, and YouTuber John Green all agree on today’s tip.
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.
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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Provide the Soundtrack (Episode 15)
Silent movies are still a thing. And they give us endless creative prompts.
2025-04-15
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Contradict Yourself (Episode 16)
Embrace your contradictions. We don’t know what we know. We might not even like what we like.
2025-04-16
2025-04-17
Learn from Will (Episode 17)
Write ’till your ink be dry, and with your tears, moisten it again.
2025-04-17
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Don’t Take Advice (Episode 18)
There are three rules for writing. Unfortunately, nobody knows what they are.
2025-04-18
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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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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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