Start With This: Idea to Execution

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4.8 • 28.5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A brand new podcast from Night Vale Presents, and the first podcast Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor have made together since Welcome to Night Vale: Start With This, a podcast gone creativity playground designed to put your ideas in motion. Each episode centers around a topic from world building, to opening lines, and even failure. Then they give listeners two short assignments: something to consume and something to create. The best way to start writing is to start writing. Not sure where to begin? Start With This.

To keep listening to Start With This, subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.

There’s natural talent, and then there’s practice. You can only control that last bit. Joseph and Jeffrey talk building habits of creation so that starting projects gets into your muscle memory.

Consume:

Check out Jonathan Mann’s Song A Day Youtube channel. Jonathan’s been writing and recording a song a day for over 3,000 days— it’s the ultimate example of flexing the habit of creation.

Create:

Pick an idea that you’ve had for a while. Take exactly 1 hour to work on it exclusively. This can be one continuous hour, or 30 minutes for two days, or 10 minutes for six days. Then put it out there (written or recorded) on our Membership Community, your website, or shout it to a bird from your porch. Consider this your first try of many at this idea.

Join the SWT Membership community to see what other listeners are making: https://www.patreon.com/startwiththis

Credits: Jeffrey Cranor (host) & Joseph Fink (host), Julia Melfi (producer), Grant Stewart (editor), Vincent Cacchione (mixer). Rob Wilson (logo). Produced by Night Vale Presents.

http://www.startwiththispodcast.com
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey listeners, I have something very exciting to share with you here.
0:04.0	It's the first new podcast, Jeffrey and I have made together since well. Welcome to Nightville.
0:09.9	I'd like to introduce you to Start With This, the show where you do the writing,
0:15.2	one simple assignment at a time. Please enjoy this first episode, and if you like it,
0:20.7	be sure to subscribe to Start With This directly to get the rest. And don't forget April 27th
0:27.3	at the Largo in LA for the first time, the faceless old woman, Mara Wilson herself, will perform a
0:33.8	welcome to Nightville live show of her own. Plus, brand new Alice isn't dead and within the wires
0:40.4	live shows. This will be a one time only night. See you there. Okay, enjoy the show.
0:48.7	Hi, I'm Joseph Fink. Jeffrey Kramer and I started the fiction podcast Welcome to Nightville
0:54.8	seven years ago and have spent those years writing a bunch of things. But in this show,
1:00.3	it's you who does the writing. One short assignment at a time. Welcome to Start With This.
1:13.9	Start With This.
1:17.7	Start With This from Idea to Execution. Almost everyone working in any creative field has more ideas
1:29.8	for projects than they have time left in their life to make those projects. And that can be
1:35.0	overwhelming. There is this constant mental reshuffling of, oh, I'd love to do that, but I also
1:40.0	have this other thing. And oh, wow, what if I did this? And if you aren't careful, you find you
1:43.6	haven't done any of those ideas because you spent too much time worrying about making them,
1:48.8	which is why it is important to actually execute ideas you have regularly, whether on a small scale
1:55.4	just for yourself, but publicly after months of work, one of the most vital habits to develop
2:00.7	as a writer, a podcaster, as an artist of any kind, is regularly executing new work from that
2:07.8	long waiting list of ideas. I'm here with Jeffrey Crainer. Let's get started. Hi Jeffrey.
2:14.8	Hi Joseph. Let's talk about the value of regular creation. I love it. I like creating.
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