Magic Lessons Ep. 207: “Living the Dream and Facing the Nightmare” featuring Neil Gaiman
Magic Lessons with Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert and Maximum Fun
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2016
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
This week on Magic Lessons, Elizabeth Gilbert advises Britta, a former lawyer-turned- writer in Amsterdam struggling to make progress on her second book. After success with her first novel, Britta made several failed attempts to start her second. She can’t find the flow and fears she has lost the the joy in writing. Liz calls up her friend, the prolific writer and novelist Neil Gaiman, for more guidance on Britta’s case.
Special Guest: Neil Gaiman writes fiction, comic books, graphic novels, journalism, audio theater, and films. His works include The Sandman, American Gods, and the children’s novel and animated film Coraline. His new book, a collection of essays about artists, myths, and memories, is called A View from the Cheap Seats. Find out more about him at Neil Gaiman.com
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| 0:20.4 | Magic Lessons listeners might enjoy little Failure, the genius memoir by Gary Steingart. |
| 0:26.0 | It's beautiful, tragic, and hilarious. |
| 0:28.0 | And he's one of our guests this season on the podcast. |
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| 0:52.6 | Just a heads up everybody. |
| 0:54.0 | These are adults having adult conversations, so there is the possibility of adult language. |
| 0:58.8 | Hi everyone and welcome to Magic Lessons, a podcast produced by Maximum Fund. |
| 1:09.2 | I'm Elizabeth Gilbert and last year I wrote this book called Big Magic, Creative Living Beyond Fear. |
| 1:18.0 | But even when I was finished with the book, I was definitely not finished with the topic because I'm still as much as ever fascinated with the intricacies of the creative process and how we find our way through that strange journey, the obstacles we made along the way and the joy of what we ultimately create and it is through my desire to keep having that conversation that this, the Magic Lessons Lessons podcast was born. So here we are |
| 1:45.1 | season two and we are back back with more real conversations with real people |
| 1:51.2 | amateurs and experts. This season we will be meeting poets and |
| 1:55.8 | novelists, dancers, photographers, comedians, and whether they're ready or not, me and my |
| 2:00.8 | friends are going to help them figure out how to shake off their fear, get unstuck, and start making stuff. |
| 2:07.0 | You know why? |
| 2:08.0 | Because I think they are ready. So let's go. |
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