The latest installment from the TNG podcast team. Thanks to everyone who contributed this time around, we really enjoyed putting this one together. As always, feedback is much appreciated. More to come!! -the "steves"
For those of you not featured in the podcast, Why do you write?
An interesting arrogant ass though :) and a damn good writer.
Thanks for your help with it lil. Everyone had such great input that it makes it very difficult to edit it down to just a snippet or two from each of you. Hope you are well!
Really nice work, thenewgreen and steve. That was one of my favorites, if not my favorite. Most podcasts that I watch seem to end at just about the right time, or a bit later than they should. When one was over, I was still wanting more. Maybe it's just the influence of watching this, but I think I can say that this podcast resonates with my motivations for creating Hubski. Here we all are, writing to each other, and at the same time, writing to ourselves.
I accidentally signed up for a creative writing glass this term at school and it was probably the best mistake I've ever made. Up until that class began, I had been frustrated. I had a lot to say and -- believe it or not -- free jazz didn't quite get the message across. I felt that the indigence within would never be represented aside from some dissonant sounds. When I started taking the writing class, the professor helped me to shape my thoughts into words so that I could share what I had to say. While I'm still no expert, it has helped tremendously. Why do I write? Because jazz is not a universal language. If I want to share my thoughts and have them understood, the written word is the most applicable medium.
It really has been an incredible experience. What I'd suggest is writing about every day situations and throw in something entirely from left field. But I'm no expert so that could be way off.
One of my ambitions is pass some of the knowledge I'm attaining about urban planning to an audience. But I wouldn't know where to start: I can make a webcomic but I'm not funny enough to come up with them (the joke was a friend's), I'd love make Youtube videos but I keep getting stuck in the place Ira Glass warned about. Right now I'm taking a course on writing about science, quite fun to reflect on my writing process and motivations, but the more I learn the more I realize I'm not that good at it. But in all media I am often hesitant to make something, because I fear that nobody will care. Which is why I mostly make stuff for people I care about, and I don't seem to find many people caring about what I might write. So no, sadly I don't really write. [/offmychest] More on-topic, I really like how this vid-/podcast turned out! Great job.
I have a personal blog that is private and unshared. Mostly because I write about controversial things that would make people hate me :) I feel like the important thing is to create, and better yourself. Improve your skill, whatever the medium. If other people care, great. If not, keep improving yourself. I feel like writing is like playing with LEGO. How many people cared about the LEGO castles you made as a kid? Did that mean they weren't worth building?I fear that nobody will care
I don't seem to find many people caring about what I might write
Wow, really cool! Nice job putting that together. I'm not much of a writer. I took one creative writing class in my last year of college and I enjoyed it. My writing was okay, but nothing notable. I was surprised at how much I enjoyed writing poetry, though. It's something that I've been thinking especially in the last 6 months or so that I really want to start putting some time into, but I just have too much other stuff on my plate at the moment, and I know it's something that I would want to put time into everyday if I were to dive in. In the last few months I've finally gotten in the habit of putting aside time to read everyday. I thought I was going to have all this extra time after I finished school, but I'm busier now than I have been in the last four years. Ah well.
Van Gogh's photoshop thought bubble. Nice one steve!
Needs to be updated with new youtube link format to display inline
I write because I like creating things. To me, the feeling of writing English is just like writing a piece of code or a building a LEGO tower. I feel like I'm a pretty good writer, but I feel like I don't have much to say. I also tend to edit my writing compulsively. An hour later, a day later, a week later, ad infinitum. Sometimes I think I'd like being an editor, for those reasons.