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Working: Spicing Up Dry Writing

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts Isaac Butler and Karen Han answer a question from a listener named Anna, who wants to enliven her nonfiction work. Breaking through creative roadblocks can be challenging, but Isaac and Karen trade tricks, such as diagramming passages of your favorite writing and inventing weird rules to find a voice that fits your work. Have you struggled to find your voice or encountered other creative barricades? Share them with us at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and 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

The new Samsung Galaxy Z-Flip 5 and Chromebook are better together.

0:07.0

Take hands-free selfies which automatically sync to your Chromebook, ready to edit, and access

0:11.5

recent chrome tabs across both devices.

0:14.0

The new Galaxy Z Flip5 and Chromebook, better together.

0:18.0

Available on Sky Mobile.

0:20.0

Bluetooth and internet connection required.

0:22.0

You must be signed into the same Google account on both your phone and Chromebook. Hello and welcome to another episode of Working overtime the

0:38.3

advice-y little sibling of Working the Podcast where we offer creative advice on the creative process question mark

0:46.8

Anyway, I'm your host Karen Hahn and I'm your other host Isaac Butler.

0:51.6

How are you Isaac? I'm a little beat not going to lie. It's

0:56.0

been a lot of meetings a lot I mean it's all good stuff it's you know the books

0:59.8

been doing well better than I think I thought I was going to but you know which

1:04.4

great so it's like there's a lot of press commitments there's a lot of stuff

1:07.1

like that I'm also serving on a committee at the new school and so just I'm just

1:11.0

in meetings all the time and so I'm a little bushed. I'm not going to lie.

1:14.4

How about you? I was going to say, I guess we sort of already know how you've been doing because we just had

1:18.7

you on for a main episode to talk about where you got the book. You was, you really grilled me, you really just,

1:24.0

you pulled like an Isaac Chautner style,

1:26.0

but on this day you said,

1:28.0

you know, just break me over the coals.

1:30.0

No, it was really fun to be a guest on this show.

1:33.8

Your greatest fear is being shot nerd?

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