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by Amie McNee and James Winestock
Join Amie McNee from @inspiredtowrite and her writer husband James Winestock for a podcast about building a sustainable creative life. A place to take your art seriously where you can go to reflect on your journey and build a thriving creative practice.
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- 4 days ago30 min
Gen Z are unemployable (complimentary).
We begin with the dreaded leaf-blower situation, we move onto the concept of work, specifically, whether Gen Z are bad at working. This conversation looks at why Zoomers gets so much FLack and why we should all be refusing the conditons being offered. Topics branch off into: the refusal to imagine more, the idea of a world run by memes / anti-memes, why artists should leave cynicism behind and how our new book is about finding purpose in a work-less world.You can buy our new cozy scifi here: https://amie-and-james-write-books.com/
- 1 weeks ago25 min
Artists, let's talk about money.
What is with the stigma against artists who don't just make money with art? Do we just make money with our art? How do we handle our finances? What would we do if we made a million dollars a year? And much more. A convo about money stuff, one that creatives should be having together a whole lot more.OUR BOOK IS OUT: https://amie-and-james-write-books.com/
- 2 weeks ago41 min
How to collaborate with other creatives.
A big episode that looks at what happens to a relationship when you create a piece of art together. How should you communicate? What issues could and will certainly arise? How do you navigate conflict? How to give feedback? An episode, where Amie and James let you into their marriage, and the beautiful and ugly that occured when they decided to write a book together! Buy our book here: https://amie-and-james-write-books.com/Also our map designer is the wonderful Holly Moeller: https://www.kettleandquill.co.uk/
- 3 weeks ago31 min
Is it okay to make silly art?
A conversation about the books and art that inspired our co-written novel, that meanders into a conversation about taking your art seriously, versus allowing it to be playful / silly. It is so fun to talk about the art that allowed our own art to be born. A favourite episode of mine (Amie!). ORDER OUR BOOK! https://amie-and-james-write-books.com/
- Oct 7, 202631 min
Things will go wrong ... good.
Creatives must make thousands of mistakes, they are inevitable, unavoidable, and crucial to reaching your potential.Amie and James are back and they're discussing the many things that go wrong in their art, business, books - and how, whilst they are deeply annoying, they are crucial to their growth, learning and over all success. Too many of us are trying to outsmart mistakes, and it is a huge mistake to do so. I REALLY DON'T WANT TO AUDIT YOUR SPACESHIP, their joint novel is out on the 23rd of October. You can pre-order now! https://amie-and-james-write-books.com/
- Jul 15, 202644 min
Business Tactics for Creatives
In this episode, we talk about the practical tactics we actually use to sell our art and make money as artists.This is not a mindset episode. We briefly acknowledge the shame, fear and awkwardness artists often carry around selling, but then we go all in on what we are doing right now: calls to action, repeating yourself, creating urgency, using scarcity ethically, building trust, newsletters, podcasts, websites, pre-orders, multiple income streams, hand-selling, word of mouth, and making it easier for people to buy the things you make.We talk about why creative business is different from traditional business, why selling art is not like selling toasters, and why artists need to stop assuming people will magically know what to do next. If you want people to buy your work, you have to show them the door. Then you have to show them again. And again. And again.Order Amie’s book We Need Your Art: https://www.amiemcnee.com/order-we-need-your-art-book-amie-mcneeRead Amie’s Substack: https://substack.com/@amiemcnee
- Jul 8, 202618 min
The System Is Broken. You Still Have Power.
Is the problem systemic, or individual?In this episode, we sit with the messy middle. Creative industries are full of scarcity, gatekeeping, bad incentives, exploitation, and cooked economics. But if we only talk about the broken system, artists are left feeling powerless. And if we only talk about personal responsibility, we ignore the real structures making everything harder.So where does that leave us?We talk about making art on hard mode, the patronising advice successful artists give, why hope matters, and how artists can critique the system while still building lives, careers, and work they believe in.Order Amie’s book We Need Your Art: https://www.amiemcnee.com/order-we-need-your-art-book-amie-mcneeRead Amie’s Substack: https://substack.com/@amiemcnee
- Jul 1, 202632 min
How We Built a Creative Life Together
Welcome to the Jamesy and Amsy Q&A, in which we discuss high school romance, creative chemistry, business roles, blurred boundaries, editorial bluntness, Steam Deck timing, Space Story, travel chaos, alternative careers, and whether an ibis is from Egypt. It is not. We checked.We talk about what it’s really like to work with your spouse when one of you is a vibes guy and the other is building probability models in his head. We get into how we make creative decisions, why we text each other business thoughts even when we’re in the same building, why travel wrecks our routines, and why collaboration can be both the greatest joy and the hardest part of our relationship.Order Amie’s book We Need Your Art: https://www.amiemcnee.com/order-we-need-your-art-book-amie-mcneeRead Amie’s Substack: https://substack.com/@amiemcnee
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