Works in Progress Podcast

Dear readers and listeners, In this episode of the Works in Progress podcast, we discuss our experiment 6: writing buddies. We describe what happened when we spent a few minutes each day updating one another about our writing, and responding to one another’s updates. Topics include: Why we loved being writing buddiesWhether it’s a good idea to share early drafts of fictionWhat to look for in a writing buddyHow much we love each other The episode is 30 minutes long, and you can listen on...

Dear readers and listeners, In this episode of the Works in Progress podcast, we discuss our experiment 5: engaging with uncertainty. We describe what happened when we spent a few minutes each day focusing on the uncertainties we were feeling in our lives and in relation to our writing. Topics include: The importance of uncertainty to the creative processHow uncertainty can lead to feelings of more freedomUpdates on what has stuck with us from previous experiments Noah mentioned that he was...

Dear readers and listeners, In this episode of the Works in Progress podcast, we discuss our experiment 4: the writing journal. We describe what we noticed about the journal, what we liked, what we didn’t like, and whether the journal influenced our writing progress or habits. Topics include: Complaining about and also praising using numbers to represent how you feel about something (e.g., how we used ‘1’ to represent not wanting to write, and ‘5’ to represent really wanting to write. These...

Dear readers and listeners! WHOOPSIE!! We’re back, and we have more questions that we needed to talk about regarding Experiment 2. If you’re just tuning into our little circus here, we strongly recommend that you go back and listen to Episodes 1 and 2, and take a look at our blog, so that you know what the heck we’re talking about. After recording Episode 2, Indigo realized that something was bothering them about how we had conducted Experiment 2. Indigo felt that our questions - Did you get...

Dear readers and listeners! Welcome to our data analysis episode for experiment 2! We recorded this episode after we had each spent a few days immersed in our data. In the podcast, we discussed the patterns we’ve been noticing in the data, and figured out which of these patterns we want to write more about as we sum up the experiment in the next few days. Highlights of our discussion include: Overview of experiment 2: the question, the experiment, and the data we collectedWas two weeks...

Dear readers - and hopefully soon-to-be-listeners! Noah and I have decided to start a podcast companion to the blog. This is our introductory episode, to introduce listeners to our research process.