Come and get weird with Vicky and Joe! This week, your hosts investigate a few ways you can mix it up and get more creative. This episode contains: knitting, bad haikus, interpretative dance, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, magic magnets, cuttlefish, and cat sneezes. It’s better than it sounds, so listen up!
Key Takeaways:
[5:10] Project Dingle Update!
[7:30] How can you get weird?
[8:15] Eavesdrop in other people’s conversations.
[15:00] Find a creative hobby to boost and inspire your mind.
[20:15] Take a long train journey and explore!
[25:00] An author decided to run an experiment to live like a badger.
[29:45] Don’t feel like writing today? Draw or sing instead!
[31:25] You’re missing out on some really cool ideas and rules if you only read traditionally published books.
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Around this time last year, Vicky and Joe talked about the power of What If? And also ludicrously expensive oak doors, poo disasters, and why shoes in the house are UNACCEPTABLE. This topic is just as relevant now, so we’ve put it out again. What if you tried this thing? What if... you wrote your book? Tune in and get the pep talk you’ve been waiting for.
Key Takeaways:
[6:40] Casa Dingle update! Lots of poo happening.
[9:40] What if you made your own door? What if you just….did?
[12:05] It can be so easy to compare yourself to what you can’t yet do, but look at the progress you’ve made thus far.
[17:50] Give yourself permission to do something badly!
[19:40] When was the last time you wrote without a purpose? Just for the fun of it?
[22:40] New year, new me. There’s a better way to go about it.
[22:50] What if you wrote your book…this year? What if?
[26:05] Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides.
[28:00] Need a community? Vicky’s got another writer’s round opening up for you!
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Mistborn: The Final Empire, by Brandon Sanderson
Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes: Essays by Phoebe Robinson
Through the Language Glass by Guy Deutscher
This week, Vicky and Joe science the shit out of choosing your book topic! Vicky is doing a really cool programme called Ship 30 for 30, and realised it’s a fabulous way of deciding on your book topic. So tune in and find out why we should be publishing lots of stuff all the time, how to bypass perfectionism, and how Twitter can be a golden source of ideas.
Key Takeaways:
[4:00] Project Dingle update!
[5:25] Is my idea the right idea for a book?
[8:00] Some books just start off just from a simple tweet.
[13:15 ] Is it disingenuous to write a book that you don’t actually want to write?
[18:50] Vicky explains her process on how she creates a curated feed.
[19:40] Check the data. What are the trends happening right now?
[20:45] Start posting random topics in your niche now!
[21:50] Keep repeating the process!
[23:40] Remember, it’s okay to fail in public!
[25:35] Should you write about your feelings? Vicky’s got some thoughts. Tune in next week for it!
[25:35] Interested in writing your microbook? Now you can in March. Sign up!
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Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake