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Ideas from the Pied Piper of public radio

Ira Glass, creator and host of This American Life, shares his Manifesto in producing great radio and chats with interested people (including you!). He's hoping to help radio beginners, people who want to create great radio pieces of their own, but his advice is useful for anyone with creative aims:

I bring all of this up to say that if you're someone who wants to make radio stories (or do any kind of creative work), you're probably going to have a period when things might not come too easily. For some people, that's just a year. For others, like me, it's eight years. You might feel completely alone and lost during this period -- God knows I did -- and I hope it's reassuring in some small way to hear that what you're going through is completely normal. Most people go through it. And there are things you can do during this period of mediocrity that will get you to the next step, that will drive you toward skill and competence.

Posted by Cindy on May 26, 2004
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