[Jodie Noel Vinson, Part 1]: Saving time to stare at the sky + turning challenges into muses Ep 1041

Finding the Throughline with Kate Hanley

Jodie Noel Vinson is an essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Harvard Review, Literary Hub, and Ploughshares. Her essays have received honorable mention in the annual Best American Essay anthologies, and she's won multiple awards and residencies, including the Susan Adefat Prize for Creative Nonfiction from Arts and Letters and the Maureen Egan Writers Exchange Award from Poets and Writers. Jodi lives in Providence, where she's also the program director at Lit Arts RI, a co-working space and so much more for the Rhode Island creative community. Fun fact: Jodie taught the Podcasting 101 class that I took before I launched my first podcast, How to Be a Better Person, back in 2019. And now I am so thrilled to be hosting her on Finding the Throughline as one of my very first guests.

In this first episode on the practical matters concerns Jodie’s path and how she does her work, we break down:

- Jodie’s experience with being one of the first folks to get long Covid, and how that shaped her work–both what she writes about and how she does that writing

- The importance of not always succumbing to your drive to get things done

- Protecting your most focused work time

- The daily habits that Jodie uses to feel good

- The writing software she’s recently adopted as a tool

- How having a kitten helps with the creative process (even though it also can take time away from work)

For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.

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