S01E04 The Great Mapping Adventure

Jelly Trumpet

Welcome to episode 4. This episode comes live from the castle keep atop the Howard Centre in Welwyn Garden City.

If you want to make the most of your creativity then you have to work for it. I’m not one for processes that go from A – Z because my mind doesn’t work like that. I suspect yours doesn’t either.

Like me, your mind goes from Z to the beauty of a leaf in a puddle to C then D, E, a story written, a picture made, the end of the Holy Roman Empire (that might just be me), to F, G, H and more…think of visiting all the planets and stars in the universe. I do.

Stuff We’ll Hear in this Episode:

• I disappear from Google Maps and wonder where I really am?
• I experience Linkedin overload
• The power of mime and how to use it on radio
• Writing letters, remember?

In the show I talk about stuff I’ve done. In this episode I talk about taking a holiday from writing plays and writing short stories. Just to see how easy it was I published this short story (containing three story threads) on Amazon Kindle.

You Are Your Own Medicine

‘You are Your Own Medicine’ is all about recording your creative moments, stuff that works and what doesn’t, it’s you making the difference by being your own coach / medicine.

We touch on a very broad part of creativity, preparation and incubation. Then we’ll go into mapping, creating a structure to hang your work on, like a skeleton.

For me, who writes characters I see it as a map of a world, which is fenced in. I then ‘release’ my characters and they run around. The best and the most annoying part of that is if you get that write they don’t do what you expect. Bastards.

In short, in this episode:

02:20 You Are Your Own Medicine, the process of creative mapping for characters and plot
05:05 Challenge at Home, combining ideas and mapping them to your work
07:55 Creative Hero Time, Pixar Studios and creative detail
10:17 Guest Spot, with James Berg, Captain of Picaroons, content marketer

Guest Spot: James Berg, content marketing

11:50 The different types of content
12:49 Earliest memory of being creative
14:05 Creative heros
15:38 What’s something no one knows about you?
18:52 Our key competencies
20:12 Checking in with the crew

Plus:

23:55 Challenge Jim, creating a character you would meet on a train
26:44 Tot Topic, writing Story Wars and publishing to Amazon Kindle
28:57 List of The Week, a variety of lists used for writing
28:29 Further Thinking Spot, The Secret Language of Symbols

29:26 Music from ‘We Paint Houses’, ‘No Fear’

33:24 Ends
Guest Spot – James Berg, Picaroons

We talk to James about running a content marketing studio. Picaroons is an original content marketing agency producing all manner of funky and creative content for a wide range of clients.

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