If You're Not Failing All The Time,

Great Stories Happen To Those Who Can Tell Them.

What Nobody Tells People Who Are Beginners… Is That All Of Us Who Do Creative Work, We Get Into It Because We Have Good Taste. But There Is This Gap. For The First Couple Years You Make Stuff, And It’s Just Not That Good. It’s Trying To Be Good, It Has Potential, But It’s Not… Your Taste Is Why Your Work Disappoints You… We Know Our Work Doesn’t Have This Special Thing That We Want It To Have. We All Go Through This… It Is Only By Going Through A Volume Of Work That You Will Close That Gap, And Your Work Will Be As Good As Your Ambitions.

I Think Good Radio Often Uses The Techniques Of Fiction: Characters, Scenes, A Big Urgent Emotional Question. And As In The Best Fiction, Tone Counts For A Lot.

Where Do Ideas Come From? Ideas Come From Other Ideas.

...these Stories Are A Kind Of Beacon. By Making Stories Full Of Empathy And Amusement And The Sheer Pleasure Of Discovering The World, These Writers Reassert The Fact That We Live In A World Where Joy And Empathy And Pleasure Are All Around Us, There For The Noticing.