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A change of scene for one episode: recently the brilliant poet and performer Molly Naylor interviewed me for her podcast Making Trouble, about creativity, and she kindly let me run an abridged version of that episode here for you. We're talking about ideas, but also long-term creative careers, mortality, podcasting, external validation, and Molly offers some great prompts for either sparking ideas or making a dinner conversation a bit more lively. Find her work at mollynaylor.com, and listen to Making Trouble in the very place you listen to podcasts.
Content note: this episode contains category A and B swears.
Otherlusionists: the episode I mentioned about step- is at theallusionist.org/step or way down your podfeed in the first year of the show. For more behind-the-scenes/depths-of-brain chat, there’s Zaltzology with Alie Ward <3 and for more about Brazilian Portuguese, there’s a brief history thereof.
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YOUR RANDOMLY SELECTED WORD FROM THE DICTIONARY:
wrack
verb: variant spelling of ‘rack’.
noun: a coarse brown seaweed which grows on the shoreline, often with air bladders providing buoyancy.
noun: a mass of high, thick, fast-moving cloud.
noun, archaic or dialect: a shipwreck; wreckage. Related to ‘wreak’ and ‘wreck’.
CREDITS:
Molly Naylor is a writer and performer, and author of books including the poetry collection Whatever You’ve Got and the graphic novel with Lizzy Stewart, Lights, Planets, People!. She makes the podcast Making Trouble, and is currently on tour in the UK with comedian and singer Grace Petrie - dates are listed at gracepetrie.co.uk. Find Molly’s work at MollyNaylor.com.
The music is by Martin Austwick. Download his songs at palebirdmusic.com and listen to his podcasts Song By Song and Neutrino Watch.
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