Some 2024 Announcements!
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
What's going on with This Creative Life? What am I doing? How old am I? Is there going to be a new podcast in this feed? All these questions and more answered in under 6 minutes!
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87. Ashley C. Ford and the Ultimate Pivot - TCL Finale (?)
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
I know you’ve been waiting a long time on a wish and a promise for this final episode in the Pivots, Comebacks, and Reinventions series. I appreciate your patience while I went and figured out myself and my own potential pivots and reinventions! The wait is over and I present to you my conversation with Ashley C. Ford, bestselling author of and . I’m so grateful to Ashley for her time and generosity in this conversation. I know you’re going to love it as much as I did. by Tananarive Due Get the book Thanks to for the theme music.
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Audio Updates - October, 2023
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
Fall updates! New interview episode coming in November. (This Creative Life newsletter will be ending)
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TCL Mini: Updates & the Future
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
News about my next book, and an opportunity for space that I am taking! Get the This Creative Life ebook on sale for $2.99 through June! @ @
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TCL Mini: The Writing Life Audit
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
This is the audio version of the most recent newsletter PLUS some thoughts about what's next for the pod. Get of this post Get Get
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86. Melissa Walker Takes Action
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
In late 2016, Melissa Walker was working on her 10th novel when she went to a holiday party and heard then Senator Daniel Squadron talk about the importance of state-level politics—even for the national landscape. She was inspired to take action. That action eventually grew into a pivot from full-time writing to full-time work with The States Project. This conversation is everything I wanted from the Pivots, Comebacks and Reinventions series. It’s a great example of how passion and purpose can realign for a season or a reason, while the writing is still always there. It got surprisingly...
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TCL Mini: No Sure Things
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
The audio version of this week's newsletter on living with the uncertainty of writing. Get of this post Get !
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85. The Publishing Year in Review with Agent Michael Bourret
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
From the supply chain issues that started the year, to the conversation about AI that's ending it, I talk through the year in publishing with Michael Bourret of . Also, we answer listener questions! This will be the last episode for the year, and the last one before a break during which I'll go off to Boston to teach and maybe even revise my novel. I'll be back (most likely in February) to pick up the Pivots, Comebacks, and Reinventions series. Get the Get (holiday pricing good through 12/21) Thanks to for the theme music Happy Holidays!
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84. Bennett Madison's Permission to Let Go
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
What do you do when you've established a writing career and then it's not giving you what you came for? What does it look like to be a person who writes but whose entire identity isn't wrapped up in Being a Writer? Is there life on the other side, if you can just let go? Bennett Madison joins me for the first time since 2013 to talk about the work of deprofessionalizing his writing life to pivot to joy in creative work--and a steady paycheck doing something else. Get the Get Thanks to for the theme music!
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TCL Mini: Year In Review
This Creative Life with Sara Zarr
New full episode next week! Until then, here's the audio version of this week's newsletter, with a question for YOU about your dream writing podcast. Get of this post Get
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