ITL194: When to Trust Your Gut (And When Not to)

In the Loop with Andy Andrews

Matt Lempert

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4.9 • 614 Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2015

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, I answer a listener question about creativity and when you should go with your instincts or take others’ advice.

We all have people who we lay our stuff out for.

There are a handful of people in my life who I will read something to occa
I thought it was odd to read it out loud, but I’ve started hearing about a lot of authors who have a couple people they read to.
It’s easier for an author just to read it himself, but when I read it out loud to someone, it lets me read in a different way than if I were alone or proofre
If I can read it to you and you totally get it, then I know that if you read it, there won’t be any problem at all.

With almost every project there will be a point where I get a little too creative, and I don’t mean that in a good way.

As a comedian, I wrote a joke that I thought was very funny (and I still think it’s funny).
I tried it four or five times and it became very obvious that it’s not as good as I thought.
If one or two out of ten don’t like something and you believe in it, stick to your guns.
If eight, nine, or sometimes even six out of ten don’t like it, at least consider they may be on to something.

Tune in to the full episode to hear Andy’s “overly creative” joke; Andy’s biggest pet peeve when it comes to writing technique; and why “a good imagination is like a great stallion.”

Questions for Listeners

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Phone: 1-800-726-ANDY
E-Mail: InTheLoop@AndyAndrews.com
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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to In the Loop, a unique opportunity to see life from a different perspective
0:06.5	with New York Times bestselling author, Andy Andrews. Now here's your host, David Loy.
0:13.1	Hi and welcome to In the Loop with Andy Andrews. I'm David Loy. And I'm Andy Andrews. How about
0:20.5	that? I was wondering if we should switch that up. I was wondering. You said, hi, welcome to Luke with Andy Andrews and you paused. And you usually say, I'm David Long. I was trying to think of something creative. I said it for you. I'm really Andy Andrews and you're really David Lloyd, just so that... It reminded me of that episode early on where we used to have our friend Pierce Mars do the intro to this.
0:40.2	Because Pierce has this big booming voice, just an amazing radio voice.
0:44.5	Oh, he has the National Geographic voice.
0:46.9	You know, this is like, and the whale grabs its dinner.
0:52.1	It's the last evening for the seal.
0:54.9	Yeah, that he has that.
0:55.8	And he is like that in person.
0:57.9	It wasn't just, that's not just his studio voice.
0:59.9	That is his, that's Pierce's legitimate voice.
1:02.0	And we had him recorded saying, and now here's Andy Andrews.
1:06.8	And one time we got him hooked up live and you didn't know it. We were recording, but we got him hooked up live. He read the intro just as it is recorded, and then there was this pause, and he started talking to you. And I think it kind of freaked you out that. That's right. Yeah, I remember that because I'm on the telephone. I'm like, whoa. That was one of the early episodes.
1:27.8	That was in the first couple of months of us doing this.
1:30.7	But that's funny.
1:31.9	He does have that National Geographic voice.
1:34.1	And there's another kind of narrator voice that I always called the Disney Animal Movie voice.
1:42.9	And I don't know who that was, but you remember that from a kid?
1:46.1	Because the guy would go, it was like, wow, Charlie the Cougar walked down to the stream.
1:53.1	He saw the Randy the raccoon there.
1:56.6	Right.
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