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George Saunders on the mystery of storytelling
So if I’m going to start sharing the good stuff with you here on the site, it’s going to have to be the good stuff. And it doesn’t get much better than this video of George Saunders [https://vimeo.com/143732791] talking about storytelling and the writing
Some goals for 2017
I do tend to give myself goals at the start of each year, but I don’t often write them down and I’ve never shared then publicly before. But then this year does feel different, somehow. I don’t know why. Work I’ve spent the last year doing
Minimum viable podcast – how I showed my work and tested an idea
I made a slightly weird podcast called Leisure Club and I asked you what you thought of it. Here are the results.
Empathise
A few days before the EU referendum vote, someone close to me said that they were probably going to vote Leave. I was flabbergasted [http://www.iainbroome.com/blog/everything-burned]. First, I could see no logical reason for it. They were intelligent, comfortably middle class, apparently liberal-minded and entirely unaffected
Everything Burned
Flash fiction written in the aftermath of the Brexit vote in 2016. I will never not be cross about what happened that year.
Shelflife – a newsletter
Newsletters have been all the rage for a couple of years. I’m not saying I’m some sort of pioneer (I am), but I’ve had my own newsletter [http://iainbroome.com/newsletter] for quite some time. In the last few months, I’ve been taking it a bit
The end of the Write for Your Life podcast
I have currently recorded 157 episodes of the Write for Your Life podcast [http://iainbroome.com/podcast], the first in 2009 and the most recent, just before Christmas last year. Me and Donna [http://sorensenpoetry.com], my co-host for the last couple of years, have made a difficult and slightly
A new job at Yoomee
I’m very pleased to write that next month, I will start a new job at Sheffield digital agency, Yoomee.
Microstories
Earlier this year, I relaunched my newsletter for writers and other creative folks, The Broome Cupboard [http://www.thebroomecupboard.com]. Every week, I send an email to 400-odd people, sharing interesting links and goodies that I’ve found on my internet travels. I also include an original microstory. Unflashy fiction
Talking about my favourite album on Inquisitive
I appeared on episode 56 of Inquisitive on Relay.fm [https://www.relay.fm/inquisitive/56] to talk about my favourite album, Damien Rice’s O. Relay.fm is a great podcast network set up last year by my internet pal and former co-host of the Write for Your Life