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Hello everyone, I'm Roxanne Gay, your guest host for the week.

Welcome to Radio Headspace and welcome to Wednesday.

This week we're talking about Creative Expression and today I want to talk to you about how I take a

creative project from start to finish because even though you may not be a writer, my process

or at least parts of it can be applied to all kinds of artistic forms.

So today I'll break down how I prep, outline, and write a book,

and I'll give you a few ideas on how to think about your own creative project.

All of my books, all of my long form projects, and even my essays start with questions.

And I tend to write those questions down or really type them down

at my handwriting's atrocious and start to do research to answer those questions and as I do

research new questions are going to arise and so I

assemble hopefully an interesting body of knowledge to sit with to read from and to figure

out okay now what is it that I have to say and so

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