Notes on Your Notes
Summary: How do you learn to value your own creative process in a world so focused on results? Join writer Adam Lesser and director Joshua Townshend as we delve deep into the creative process across the storytelling spectrum--screenwriting, fiction, acting, directing, visual arts, sound design. We offer up tools, inspiration and insights that will transform your creative process.
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- Artist: Joshua and Adam
- Copyright: Copyright 2018 Notes on Your Notes
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Why don't New Year's resolutions work? And what does work? Joshua and Adam dive into the process of setting and achieving creative goals. They follow the 2018 NOYN Creative Workbook, a positive and effective way for getting in touch with one's creative desires and making it happen. *Get the 2018 NOYN Creative Workbook at www.notesonyournotes.com/2018 -------- *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1) *Leave a Voicemail for us: 415-735-6095* *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *We have a Youtube Channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkiJv3PVcV-K8evXCZIx9w)*
Our New Year's GIFT to our listeners is here! The 2018 Notes on Your Notes Creative Workbook is now available, for free. The workbook takes you through an inventory of what makes you excited creatively and identifies where you are strongest so that you don't just make failed New Year's Resolutions, but set goals that you achieve. Get it at www.notesonyournotes.com/2018 ------ *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1) *Leave a Voicemail for us: 415-735-6095* *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *We have a Youtube Channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkiJv3PVcV-K8evXCZIx9w)*
How do you create empathy for the repugnant character? Joshua and Adam convince you that not only is empathy possible for these characters but they're often the most interesting characters we encounter. --------- *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1) *Leave a Voicemail for us: 415-735-6095* *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *We have a Youtube Channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkiJv3PVcV-K8evXCZIx9w)*
Many writers forget that setting is as much a character in their stories as the human characters. Joshua and Adam discuss masters of creating setting, from David Simon to Wes Anderson, as well as epic failures in creating compelling settings. An overlooked topic but so critical to setting one's stories apart. --------- *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1) *Leave a Voicemail for us: 415-735-6095* *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *We have a Youtube Channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkiJv3PVcV-K8evXCZIx9w)*
Ann Randolph has a long resume as a writer, performer, and teacher but truly it's her spirit that have drawn thousands to study with her and to see her perform. For its first guest, Notes on Your Notes welcomes the Ovation Award winner to talk about everything from being willing to speak your truth as an artist to how her measures of success have changed. --------- *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1) *Leave a Voicemail for us: 415-735-6095* *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *We have a Youtube Channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkiJv3PVcV-K8evXCZIx9w)*
How important is discipline for the life of the artist? Mooney Joshua and Germanic Adam go head to head as Joshua tries to convince Adam that too much structure is the death knell of creativity. --------- *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1) *Leave a Voicemail for us: 415-735-6095* *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *We have a Youtube Channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkiJv3PVcV-K8evXCZIx9w)*
How important is discipline for the life of the artist? Mooney Joshua and Germanic Adam go head to head as Joshua tries to convince Adam that too much structure is the death knell of creativity. --------- *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1) *Leave a Voicemail for us: 415-735-6095* *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *We have a Youtube Channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkiJv3PVcV-K8evXCZIx9w)*
Perfectionism can hold artists back from developing their talent. Joshua and Adam get at the problem by creating a character who is a perfectionist and then transforming her. --------- *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1) *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *We have a Youtube Channel! (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLkiJv3PVcV-K8evXCZIx9w)*
Do you struggle with the decision to put your work out there for others to experience? Joshua and Adam talk about the blocks that keep people from sharing their work, how to get past them, and the creative rewards of getting your stuff out there. --------- *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1)
What are the objects in our everyday lives that carry meaning for us? Joshua and Adam talk about how the inanimate objects of characters tell us important details about who people are and what they want. Also, Josh breaks down the kombucha industrial complex. --------- *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at our website, www.notesonyournotes.com* *Rate us on iTunes!* (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/notes-on-your-notes/id1295924392?mt=2&ls=1)
Joshua gets his panties into a knot over a Facebook post that wound up being a "candyshop for enablers." Adam calms him down and they discuss how to authentically portray the emotions of characters in stories. --------- *Find us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Join our Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/)Group* *Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com* *Blog posts and All Episodes at out website, www.notesonyournotes.com*
For their inaugural episode, Joshua and Adam discuss the importance of committing to creative projects and how that can mean closing doors on other projects. Joshua doesn't hesitate to draw analogies between dating and choosing projects. Links: *Find us on Instagram: @notesonyournotes (https://www.instagram.com/notesonyournotes/)* *Like us on Facebook! (https://www.facebook.com/Notes-On-Your-Notes-1660281657346142/) to get all our new episodes!* *Our website! (http://www.notesonyournotes.com)--blog posts and more* Feedback? Email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com
Welcome to Notes on Your Notes, a weekly podcast about the core of the creative process across the storytelling spectrum: screenwriting, fiction, acting, directing, visual arts, cultural creatives. This is a journey into the heart of how we stay in process, how we do our most meaningful work, and how we discover individually what our own creative process needs to be. Check out our new website. (http://www.notesonyournotes.com) Or email us at notesonyournotes@gmail.com Launching soon!
