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Gramer Girl here, I'm Minion Fogarty, and you can think of me as your friendly guide to the English language.

Writing, history, rules, and cool stuff.

Today, I have an interview with Georgina Marie, the author of a fabulous new book called Improv for Writers.

But she also does much more than that. She does voices for animation.

She does stand-up comedy, teaches workshops, and has narrated hundreds of audiobooks.

Which, just to orient you, is what we're talking about at the beginning of the interview.

It got cut off a little bit, so we're coming in just a few seconds after we started talking.

Here we go.

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Oh gosh, thanks. Well, this is your first book, right?

This is my first book. Although if you look me up on Amazon or Audible, you'd be like,

wow, like, there's a couple hundred on there, but those are the ones I've narrated.

I haven't written several hundred books.

Right, well, I was going to say you've done a lot of other interesting things.

Before we get started on improv for writers, why don't you give the listeners a little bit of

background to explain why you're so well-suited to write this book?

Oh, well, thank you. I have a background teaching improv to children of all ages.

Really took what I learned from them and what I learned from improv low these many years.

Also, as an actor, knowing how quickly we come up with ideas and can leave our performance

like where it was and not judge it after, I just thought there were a lot of really neat things

to share with my writer friends who I found out had some struggles and I just thought,

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