Working: Using A Writing Grant Wisely

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🗓️ 9 February 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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For this week’s episode of Working Overtime, hosts Karen Han and Isaac Butler respond to listener Emily’s question about how best to plan out a period of creative freedom she’s been given through a writing grant. It can be a challenge to find motivation while working on spec, or without concrete deadlines, but Isaac and Karen share ideas for psyching yourself into a creative routine. Do you feel unable to plan out your creative future? Leave a message at (304) 933-9675 or email us at working@slate.com. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:49.4	Welcome to Working Overtime, the Advice Forward's Sunday brunch to Working's three course
0:54.3	Tasting Menu, I'm Isaac Butler, and I'm Karen Han.
0:57.6	Hey, Karen, how you doing?
0:58.6	I'm good.
0:59.6	How are you?
1:00.6	You know, the week that we're recording this is the first week of the new semester where
1:05.4	I teach.
1:06.4	And so I do feel a little bit hit by a truck, but just trying to keep going.
1:10.9	Karen, you may remember, because I think you were the co-host that week that a couple
1:14.0	weeks ago, I begged listeners to help me procrastinate by sending us letters for me to read.
1:19.8	And one of our listeners, this woman Emily, was kind enough to aid me in the near blowing
1:24.4	of a deadline by sending a wonderful email filled with recent cultural experiences she
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