Start With This: Idea to Execution

Alice Isn't Dead

Night Vale Presents

Thriller, Fiction, Nightvale, Horror, Josephfink, Welcometonightvale, Drama, Jasikanicole, Disparition, Aliceisntdead

4.6 • 5.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A brand new podcast from Night Vale Presents co-founders Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor: Start With This, a podcast gone creativity playground designed to put your ideas in motion. Each episode centers around a topic from world building, to opening lines, and even failure. Then they give listeners two short assignments: something to consume and something to create. The best way to start writing is to start writing. Not sure where to begin? Start With This.

To keep listening to Start With This, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

There’s natural talent, and then there’s practice. You can only control that last bit. Joseph and Jeffrey talk building habits of creation so that starting projects gets into your muscle memory.

Consume:

Check out Jonathan Mann’s Song A Day Youtube channel. Jonathan’s been writing and recording a song a day for over 3,000 days— it’s the ultimate example of flexing the habit of creation.

Create:

Pick an idea that you’ve had for a while. Take exactly 1 hour to work on it exclusively. This can be one continuous hour, or 30 minutes for two days, or 10 minutes for six days. Then put it out there (written or recorded) on our Membership Community, your website, or shout it to a bird from your porch. Consider this your first try of many at this idea.

Join the SWT Membership community to see what other listeners are making: https://www.patreon.com/startwiththis

Credits: Jeffrey Cranor (host) & Joseph Fink (host), Julia Melfi (producer), Grant Stewart (editor), Vincent Cacchione (mixer). Rob Wilson (logo). Produced by Night Vale Presents.

http://www.startwiththispodcast.com
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, Alice Heads, I have a new podcast for you.
0:03.5	It's a show in which you do the creating, one simple assignment at a time.
0:08.6	Please enjoy this first episode, and if you like it, be sure to subscribe to start with
0:14.4	this directly to get the rest.
0:17.2	And don't forget, April 27th at the Largo in L.A., a brand new Alice isn't dead live
0:23.5	show, along with a brand new within the wires live show, and for the first time ever, a
0:28.9	live welcome tonight fail starring Mara Wilson as the faceless old woman.
0:33.9	Okay, enjoy the show.
0:35.8	Hi, I'm Joseph Fink.
0:38.0	Jeffrey Kramer and I started the fiction podcast Welcome Tonight Fail seven years ago,
0:43.4	and have spent those years writing a bunch of things.
0:46.5	But in this show, it's you who does the writing, one short assignment at a time.
0:51.6	Welcome to start with this.
0:53.6	Heart is heart, starting is heart.
0:58.8	If you want to start somewhere, you can start with this.
1:03.0	You can start with this.
1:09.4	Start with this from idea to execution.
1:13.4	Almost everyone working in any creative field has more ideas for projects than they have
1:18.2	time left in their life to make those projects.
1:21.4	And that can be overwhelming.
1:23.1	There is this constant mental reshuffling of, oh, I'd love to do that, but I also have
1:27.2	this other thing.
	...

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