Join me for Creative Lift!
A podcast about leveling up your creative projects in the most joyful of ways: by playing your way to the page.
Are you a writer?
Or really, any other kind of artist who uses story as a key medium? If you take your work, your practice and your growth seriously enough to dare to play your way to the page, this podcast is for you.
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Would you like to be a guest on Creative Lift? I’m featuring listener experiences and insights from season one in upcoming episodes.
SEASON ONE:
STEP INTO YOUR STORY
In this first season, we explore how story can be a compass for your creative growth. Dip your toe into Writerly Play and listen for your own call to adventure. What’s next in your creative journey?
SEASON TWO:
PLAY YOUR WAY TO THE PAGE
In season two, we put play to practical use in your creative practice. Each episode includes an invitation for your curiosity, a game or thinking experiment, and a question or two to take into your week.
RECENT EPISODES
Creative Lift 027 – Make the Most of Your Design Thinking Tools
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Creative Lift 026 – Trial and Error Your Way Forward
How do you move a project toward completion? How do you know a creative project is done? This season, we’ve been talking about Design Thinking, and...
Creative Lift 025 – Feedback is a Gift
How do you feel about creative feedback? This is a tough question for me, because often my mind responds one way and my heart responds another. But...
Creative Lift 024 – How Prototypes Can Help You Think
You’ve probably heard the question somewhere before: Are you a plotter or a pantser? But, have you ever considered the possibility that you might...
Creative Lift 023 – I Thought I Knew How to Brainstorm, And Then …
Especially if you're the kind of person who always has a thousand ideas, learning to brainstorm more effectively may seem pointless. After all, if...
Creative Lift 022 – Where You Start the Creative Process Determines Where You End Up
It's a question I've heard so many times: Should I make this choice or that one? The creative process is filled with decisions large and small. We...
Creative Lift 021 – How Does Empathy Fit in the Creative Process
Design Thinking starts with empathy. If we were making a widget or any solution to meet an external user’s need, we’d want that empathy to begin...
Creative Lift 020 – How Design Thinking Works and Why Writers Should Care
The more original, the more interesting, the more important your creative work is, the harder you have to work to craft the bridge between what’s in...