Listener Favorites: Julie Duffy | Your Story Needs to Be Heard
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Julie Duffy is a writer and host of Story a Day, a creative writing course that happens each May where writers are challenged to write a story every day for a month. This episode is all about getting out of your comfort zone and giving yourself permission to suck, doing the work and finishing your projects even if you know they’re not the best. What you have to express and the story you have to share is completely, 100% unique and the world needs to hear it.
To find out more about Story A Day, visit www.StoryADay.org and follow them on Twitter!
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| 0:00.0 | unless you're doing a creative writing course where someone's forcing you to write, |
| 0:04.3 | people fall away in droves. I think it's because the way that we get analyzed literature, |
| 0:10.0 | we don't think about the sucky first draft. I think that's one of Anlamot's greatest gifts to |
| 0:16.2 | the crazy world, is the phrase the shitty first draft. It's, and it's easy to say it, |
| 0:22.8 | and it's easy to understand intellectually that you need to do that. But doing it is really hard, |
| 0:29.2 | allowing yourself to write something that's imperfect and to keep going to the end and to say, |
| 0:33.6 | you know what, this opening is terrible and the middle is a mess, but I'm going to get to the end |
| 0:38.1 | of this short story, and I'm going to figure out what it's about, and I can come back and edit it |
| 0:43.6 | later. It's the practice of doing that over and over again, is the only thing that allows you |
| 0:52.4 | to do it again. I've interviewed best-selling novelists and for articles and stuff, |
| 0:58.3 | and they all tell me the same thing. They're like, you know, it's, I always reach a point where |
| 1:03.6 | I think I can't do it. And when I say, how do you get over it? They say, mostly it's because I've |
| 1:07.5 | done it before. Yeah. I'm Streny Rao, and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a |
| 1:16.7 | window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who've started movements, |
| 1:21.6 | built driving businesses, written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art. |
| 1:26.2 | For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakablecreative.com. |
| 1:34.7 | Doing creative work can be kind of lonely, and that's why we built the unmistakable listener tribe. |
| 1:39.5 | The tribe is a community for professionals to connect and support each other. |
| 1:42.9 | Everything is designed to help you grow your business and share what's working and what isn't. |
| 1:47.5 | And that's true whether you're a business owner or an artist. You get access to feedback, |
| 1:51.6 | live conversations with guests, and so much more. By joining the tribe, you become part of a |
| 1:55.7 | community of creators who all support each other, and it's completely free. Hopefully, |
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