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Working: A Special Creative Advice Episode

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

This week, hosts June Thomas, Isaac Butler, and Karen Han help each other to overcome creative roadblocks and discuss some of their favorite pieces of creative wisdom. But first, they make a big announcement about future episodes of Working. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Cameron Drews. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Big Mood, Little Mood—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. Sign up now at slate.com/workingplus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome back to working, I'm your host, June Thomas.

0:13.6

And I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.

0:15.8

I'm yet another host, Karen Han.

0:19.6

You heard correctly all three of us are here today because this is a very special creative

0:25.5

advice episode where the three of us will offer some advice, accept some advice from each

0:30.2

other, and possibly even critique some advice.

0:33.4

Yes, and one of the reasons why we're doing this advice centric episode is because next

0:38.1

year, in addition to our regular episodes of working, we'll be releasing some shorter

0:42.8

episodes that focus solely on creative wisdom.

0:46.6

And we wanted to give listeners a taste of what those episodes might be like.

0:50.1

Karen, since you're our newest host, do you want to tell our listeners more about these

0:54.1

new episodes?

0:55.1

I would love to.

0:57.1

So the new episodes we called Working Over Time, a title that Isaac came up with, and

1:01.3

we'll release those episodes every other week starting on January 13th.

1:06.4

Like you said, these episodes will be all about creative wisdom from a variety of sources.

1:11.2

For example, we might read a book about writing and discuss whatever best practices are

1:14.6

in there, a book like On Writing by Stephen King would be a good contender.

1:18.5

Other times, we might offer our own advice to a listener who needs it, but our goal will

1:22.2

always be for listeners to walk away with something useful, something that'll help them

1:26.6

with their creative work.

1:28.2

Yep.

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