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Sep 2019
35m 10s

Anxiety

Night Vale Presents
About this episode

Have you ever had a big deadline and all of a sudden you have to listen to that new audiobook? In this episode, we talk about how anxiety about your writing can lead to moments like this. Then we discuss ways to motivate yourself from steering into the skid, to doing achievable tasks, as well as how taking care of your body and mind affects your creative work. 

Consume: Listen to Mark Can’t Rap with British poet Mark Grist 

Create: Set a calendar alert for 5 days in a row to spend 10 mins writing non-stop. 

Each day, write about a different body part. At the end of the 5 days, put each of the sections together and look at the experimental novel you’ve created.

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

Theme written by Joseph Fink. Currently performed by listener Mike Lynch. If you'd like your own cover of the theme song featured on this show, email us at startwiththis@nightvalepresents.com or share it in our membership community.

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