7. Valuing your storytelling vision

Have you ever pushed through to meet a writing or publishing goal, only to feel let down once you reached it? Or worse, only to find that the story you wrote wasn’t at all what you wanted to create, and you have no idea how that happened?

If you’re looking for more satisfaction and growth (and even success) in your writing life, it may be time for a new framework.

Write toward your values, not your goals.

There are two reasons prioritizing your creative values is so key to a sustainable and transformative writing practice:

1. You can’t control what happens to your story once it’s out in the world.
2. Goals inherently narrow possibility.

Tune in to learn how this framework can help you reclaim a creative life that supports you as a human, and isn’t just driven by “pushing through” or “doing the work.”

Plus, we’ll explore how to free our values (and ourselves) from the dogma of creativity-as-productivity – so we can become the storytellers we truly feel called to be.

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Episode links:

Throughline podcast: “No Bad Ideas?”

The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History, Samuel W. Franklin

History of the American writing workshop

• Workshops of Empire, Eric Bennett
• Craft in the Real World, Matthew Salesses
• The Anti-Racist Writing Workshop, Felicia Rose Chavez

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