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by Darby Hudson
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The stuff I don't say that gives me my voice
The stuff I don't say that gives me my voice
About this podcast
Darby Hudson talks about the 'creative process' and muddling through life.
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- The stuff I don't say that gives me my voice · 8 min · Season 1 Episode 212I'm terrible at restraint, but I'm getting better at it with age. It's the stuff I don't say that gives me my voice. Listen to the first 7 minutes of my book "You're Going To Be…
- Reverse engineering astonishment · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 211Reading reviews of my once favourite art to reverse engineer the astonishment then write my own way towards that same feeling. Listen to the first 7 minutes of my book "You're…
- Sticking with your vision · 9 min · Season 1 Episode 210Let time do the heavy lifting of your art and writing. Listen to the first 7 minutes of my book "You're Going To Be OK (Because You're F'd No Matter What)" audiobook, read by…
- Writing "mean" stuff · 9 min · Season 1 Episode 209I write things for my books that I consider pointing the finger out, then turn the finger back at myself. It's a relief to be hypocritical. Listen to the first 7 minutes of my…
- Selling kills my writing · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 208I was a literary poet, then moved to instapoet. And still trying to find that place where I can write a book that works both off and on a social media platform. I could choose to…
- Good things are happening when things are going bad · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 207Nearly everytime some good has been invisibly growing away in the background, it just travels slowly and invisibly. Listen to the first 7 minutes of my book "You're Going To Be…
- Never giving up when you want to · 12 min · Season 1 Episode 206Art life is mostly thankless and working in the dark. It can't be done any other way. Listen to the first 7 minutes of my book "You're Going To Be OK (Because You're F'd No…
- A book that breaks free from social media and has its own life · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 205I'm keen for a book that has its own life independent of social media. I'm not an 'influencer' but that's the tax one pays for being able to avoid the gatekeepers. So I'm also…
- Poetry - the building block for novelists · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 204They say poetry is the first thing you learn before moving towards writing in other genres. I never thought I would. Listen to the first 7 minutes of my book "You're Going To Be…
- Authors who no longer write from a personal emergency · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 203Helen Garner said she struggled to write a follow up to her big book "The First Stone" as she needed to write from a personal emergency. I'm finding myself in the same place…
- I got sick of my own writing · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 202Changing up style and voice is a bit of a struggle but I'm no stranger to it. You lose social media traction and you lose and audience but the heart can breath again. Listen to…
- Why your work sounds like you even when you're trying not to · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 201This episode: Keep on making stuff until it's the mess you've made outside of the focus of the work that is actually yours. Listen to the first 7 minutes of my book "You're Going…
- How I improved my writing · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 200Something happens in your late 30s, you recognise all the patterns of crap. Then into my 40s I started challenging my worldview. And that's when my work got better. Get my book…
- Tricking my brain to write better · 13 min · Season 1 Episode 199These are some quick writing tips that have been useful for me. Get my book: "You're Going To Be Ok" here as a paperback or audiobook Get my book, "You're Going To Be Ok" &…
- Most modern stories kill my intuition and sense of self · 12 min · Season 1 Episode 198Steven Ogg's rendition of me poem: https://www.instagram.com/p/DasmnvYMScI/ Get "You're Going To Be Ok" here as a paperback or audiobook Get my book, "You're Going To Be Ok" &…
- Putting art into the world and no one cares · 10 min · Season 1 Episode 197I'm fascinated how I have no control over what happens when I put something into the world. I wrestle with it a lot. Sometimes I care too much about it. Sometimes I don't care at…
- Writing a new book with lots of light · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 196Finished the last book and I've found a door into a new book which I'll illustrate too. Get "You're Going To Be Ok" here as a paperback or audiobook Get my book, "You're Going…
- Books that kill loneliness · 9 min · Season 1 Episode 195These are my favourite books. They don't care about cleverness. They've staved off many moments of loneliness for me in my 30s. Get "You're Going To Be Ok" here as a paperback…
- Sleepwriting poems (I'm guilty of this) · 12 min · Season 1 Episode 194Trying to raise the floor quality of my new book I'm handing in today. Get "You're Going To Be Ok" here as a paperback or audiobook Get my book, "You're Going To Be Ok" &…
- Catching the spirit with art · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 193I felt the spirit in music as a kid, or at night, or in random moments. I wanted to learn how to hold it outside myself, even if temporarily, through art. Get "You're Going To…
