As you know, our goal here is to make sure you get things done.

We're all about working less and doing more.

And with any major project, well, it's easy to get overwhelmed and slowly fall off the productivity wagon.

And if you're a creative type, you've probably been guilty of never finishing that project.

There's a podcast out there that I want to recommend that explores what

happens when a creative person ventures out to take on a major project. The podcast is called

launch. It's written and hosted by screenwriter John August. It's a show about writing. It's a show

about books and about putting something out into the world and having no idea what will happen next. John records himself all the way from ideation to the final release of his

new book and we hear what it really takes to get it done. Here's a preview. And be sure to

subscribe to launch on Apple Podcasts or wherever you're listening to this right now.

Hi, my name is John August. If you Google me, you'll see I'm mostly a screenwriter.

I wrote Big Fish and a bunch of other movies. Two years ago, I started writing a novel.

It was something I'd never done before and knew almost nothing about. At the same time,

I started recording interviews with authors and agents and publishers, and everybody remotely

connected to this book I was writing. I didn't know exactly what I'd do with all those

interviews, but I had questions, and I figured I might as well get the answers on tape.

Now my book is coming out.

Two weeks from today, you'll be able to buy it in stores.

This podcast is about how that book got there.

How I wrote it, how I sold it, and how publishing works.

Not just as a business, but literally how books are printed and shipped.

We'll be talking about success and failure, school librarians, book tours, typefaces,

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