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Blah Di Da — 204 episodes
Poetry - the building block for novelists
Authors who no longer write from a personal emergency
I got sick of my own writing
Why your work sounds like you even when you're trying not to
How I improved my writing
Tricking my brain to write better
Most modern stories kill my intuition and sense of self
Putting art into the world and no one cares
Writing a new book with lots of light
Books that kill loneliness
Sleepwriting poems (I'm guilty of this)
Catching the spirit with art
My favourite artists disguise their effort
Where did the anti-heroes go?
Why I like "bad" poetry
30 years self publishing to traditional publishing
Laughing at myself and sometimes others
Writing about the most boring person I know: me
Resting is important to make quality art
Virality can be a trap for authors
Instagram poetry line breaks drag me through poems
Finding your writing voice
A writing trick & what my 3rd book's about
When your weirdness finally fits into society (in the form of a book)
A writer's pilgrimage to LA
Forgetting my book is actually good
Writing a whole book as fast as I can
My new book for an artist's heart lost in the world
Borrowing the atmosphere of my favourite writers
The thing you are good at is hiding in plain sight
Planting stories in real-life locations
Getting my new book from publisher Andrews Mcmeel in the mail
Recording an audiobook - behind the scenes and some thoughts
Atmosphere over story
How I found energy after work to make art and break out of the jail of meaningless jobs
Revisiting my 2009 tweets wasn't a good idea
Finding my writing voice took the length equivalent of 4.5 PhDs
Writing update....
Writing is the hardest work I've ever done
5 years on writing full time after quitting my job
Following the Art Spirit through darkness into light
Just make something good
Trying to remember my book is magic, not a unit to sell
I've become more writer than human
Signing me book that's just out
The fear of sharing art to an audience
Today is for people with art, tomorrow for people with plans
The need to create under a new patch of sky (live overseas)
Nervy thoughts on releasing a book
Never ending search for home
30 years of following the "art god"
Masculine and feminine energy in books
The BS of artists "making it" at a certain age
Blending comedy and poetry
Modern poetry all sounds the same for a reason
Creative theft or just whinging?
Borrowing the essence of classic books
Good art makes everything else seem like it's pretending
Sometimes books are home
Writing my way out of mental straitjackets
Art is a passport to travel the world
The average age of best selling authors is 48-52
I swapped cynicism for wonder and my life changed
Art is a passport to the heart
The magic, quiet eye of mum's storm
How many followers I needed before publishers came knocking (250k)
15 Years Writing with Beers by the Tracks — The Best Part of My Day
Writing from character (more on mum)
More on Mum's book
Mum's voice and my voice. And writing mum's voice.
You're Dangerous When You Make Something Beautiful
Mum: and the alive things she told me before she died
Creative burnout and managing social media
Writing memes
Sometimes the truth sounds like the truth (when it isn't)
My favourite art alleviates the burden of time
When storytelling loses its power
Finding true things in a world of BS
Creativity under pressure - some thoughts on RuPauls Drag Race
Fear and good art don't belong together
I can't be creative in summer
40 is when writers arrive into themselves
Thoughts on The Exorcist (book) and vibes in the air
Balancing cynicism and magic
Becoming an artist by becoming bad at everything else
Tapping the magic of being an old fart
Australian art legend Michael Leunig's influence and advice to me
Fast witty thinkers VS slow deep thinkers
Turning the love of art into a job
Writing stuff that's just for me
Jay the street writer - interview
Stuck on the couch - boring episode
Josh Turek, poet and comedian interview
You need a thin and thick skin to write and promomote your work
Writing breakthroughs have no linear progression
My best stuff comes from beyond me
Balancing chaos and routine for creativity
30 years to find an audience (it took me)
Writers block - things I do to kill it
Other peoples stories are medicine
Do I regret dedicating a life to writing, thoughts and ideas?
Creativity is cart before the horse before the cliff
Life and death and writing
Taking a break from writing
Writing my new book with small-big thoughts (out today!)
Stuff learned from my first spoken word performance
In praise of reading not to learn
Thoughts on putting together my live show
Making something out of nothing
Productivity and creativity hate each other
The hidden door in rock bottom
The horror of time
Lessons from a hangover
Exploiting myself for ideas I'd never thought I'd publish
Courageous artists: be the first to say the thing
Best bits from 88 episodes of this podcast (some of them)
The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world
Zero expecations allow creativity to happen
Smuggling your weirdness through years of the cult of sensible
A hundred bad ideas to write a single good one
The sum of our artistic influences... and our life
The endless daily creative defeats make me grumpy
We love to make meaning out of everything
I've got an inner waggy pissed off cat's tail and an outer waggy happy dog's tail
Balancing Sensible Self and Crazy Self (to pay bills and make art)
Your old ideas that never found an audience are the most important
Unexplained happiness
I know who I am and after all these years there's a victory in that
The duty to make art in a shit culture
Memes and culture
Thinking out loud has changed the way I write
Writing in 'beginner mode' and poetry as a baseline to find one's voice
A little about writing me new book, WORKING NINE LIVES
Finishing a book project and starting the next
Following your dreams
Making art for no audience
Selling out to myself
Creative breakthroughs by not giving a shit
Documenting the writing process for one of me videos
Walking to the supermarket in the no mans land between Christmas and New Years
Physical frailty and creating beyond oneself
Every creative breakthrough I've had across 40 years
One idea leads to the next
Sticking up poems around the streets and talking to myself
Shit podcast episode where I was out of ideas
Getting out of the way of yourself in creativity
Finding momentum to keep creating
Find out who you are and do it on purpose
Writing my way out of straightjackets and 2 other random ideas I had this week
Finding your voice in creativity with your actual voice
Catching the emotional truth of what I'm writing about
Starsigns and creativity - skip this if starsigns ain't your thing!
Nows the time to create in a world distracted by politics
Creative breakthroughs
Interview with Tommy Attwood, writer/illustrator
How I've been able to pay the rent writing poetry
Honouring my 8 year old self's decisions to make books
Have faith in shit ideas: from 200 views of a poem, to half a million (with the same poem)
Limiting myself creatively to free myself creatively
I often make my brain to ask itself: what would legs do?
Making art while working a full time job: art before the horse
Half baked ideas I've been playing with
Creatives need breaks to be improve
Great art lets you see the world for what it is
Road Trip to free up creativity
Charles Bukowski, poet, and what I've learned from him
Making stuff from mess and it's easier than ever to be an individual
Waking life runs on dream logic more than we probably care to admit
Cats and creativity
Self censoring making art
Dressing my words in pyjamas by handwriting
Reaching the edge of culture and creating my own world
Poems that shake me alive
"UM": my little (big) book I've made that's sort of a self help for creatives
I applied for 2500 jobs with the stupidest resume
Balancing darkness and light in poetry
Searching for truth and wisdom in unlikely places
Adulting in a creative life
Creativity in trying-not-trying
The exhaustion of acting normal in a weird world
The past is a foreign country
Self publishing isn't a dirty word
Second week off writing thoughts
Creative burnout - relaxing is hard work
Editing, writing and painting my new book CONFETTI TORNADO
Comedians tell the truth more than poets these days
Earning years of life to earn poetry
Ideas I had this week that didn't quite work
Finding ideas/wisdom/truth outside the popular opinion of the crowd
The Wizard Of Oz and The Never Ending Story are documentaries
11 poems, artists & places that have greatly inspired me
Spirits (and other random weekly stuff while walking around talking shit into my phone)
I wrote this episode by walking
Using booze as a tool to write
Sport tactics and psychology that have helped my art
Writing routine and how social media engagement helps put a book together
Are our stories worth telling over and over?
Finding your voice through perfect truths, imperfectly said
The courage (and stupidity) to say what everyone's thinking and no one's saying
Detectives and Poets do the same job
Creativity that comes from living years of life
How I got into writing and the sisyphean weirdness of writing for social media
Thoughts on writing and the creative process
When art or music saves your life, you're ready to be an artist.