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Beautiful Writers Podcast

Cheryl Strayed & Nia Vardalos: Answering the Biggest Questions that Stump Writers

Beautiful Writers Podcast

Linda Sivertsen

Writing, Authors, Books, Book Deals, Writers, Arts, Bestsellers, Book Proposals, Publishing, Society & Culture

4.7 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In this “What would they do?” episode, I ask Oscar-nominated screenwriter, actress, & bestselling author Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding and Instant Mom) and #1 NYT bestselling memoirist and Oprah book club pick Cheryl Strayed (Wild and Tiny Beautiful Things) writing & career questions that stump me (and maybe you, too!). Idols to the rescue! What a comfort to learn that they still struggle in many of the ways I do—and what a relief to hear their best workarounds. I don’t have...

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0:00.0

Hey, beautiful. My new book, Beautiful Writers, a journey of big dreams and messy manuscripts with

0:09.2

tricks of the trade from bestselling authors, is finally out in bookstores. I hope you'll pick up a

0:15.4

copy for yourself or a creative in your life. If at any time you find yourself feeling out of your league

0:22.2

or intimidated by the publishing industry,

0:25.6

I hope my coming of career dreams, adventures, and misadventures

0:30.2

will support you to find and believe in your own path.

0:34.5

Nothing makes me happier on the page or on the airwaves here than having the chance to remind

0:40.1

you that you're magic and you have every reason to believe in your dreams. Now, on to the show.

0:53.2

Yesterday, I actually thought about one of the things I wrote in,

0:57.0

Tiny Beautiful Things, in the column, I write like a motherfucker.

0:59.0

I said, listen, writing is hard, but cold lines harder.

1:03.0

And yesterday I realized, nope, I was wrong about that.

1:07.0

I love it.

1:10.0

Writers don't really talk about I'm going to write a book.

1:14.5

Writers, write.

1:15.9

And that's the things that I try to tell people.

1:18.6

Talk less, write more.

1:20.5

Nice.

1:21.0

That's a good one.

1:22.5

I tried something new for this What Would They Do episode.

1:26.2

Hi, this is Linda Sievertson and you are at the Beautiful

1:30.0

Writers' Podcast where I love asking the questions that make my writing path easier, shorter, and

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