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Weird. But in a surprisingly good way. I'm your other host Isaac Butler.

And I'm yet another host,aman Alam. That's right all three of us are here because

this is a very special listener call in episode where we dig into our mailbag and

respond to questions and concerns about creative work.

Raman, you're a novelist, Isaac, you have been a theatre director and you have just finished the first draft of a non-fiction book.

Raman, Isaac, do you often have people coming to you for creative advice?

The sad truth is that the questions I get most often are really technical.

You know, one of them maybe the most common one is how do you get a literary agent.

And in fact, usually the question is actually how can I get your literary agent and you know those

aren't fun to answer really because it's actually so easy to figure out how to get

a literary agent and in fact to get my literary agent is not, it's very straightforward.

You just find her email address and email her.

But I do teach periodically and some percentage of what my students ask me about is more creative stuff how to stay productive how to collaborate with an

editor how to put one foot in front of the other when you're writing a long project and

I actually really like those questions.

Yeah totally I have a friend who is just getting back into

writing after a long gap actually she was a writer before I, but then took time off for a minute and is getting back to it now.

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