Special 200th Episode!

First Draft Episode #200: Special Anniversary
Episode

For the 200th episode of the First Draft with Sarah Enni podcast,
previous guests sent in answers to questions like, where do you
turn for inspiration? What are you hopes and dreams at this
moment in your career? What do you do besides writing that makes
you a more skillful storyteller? And, of course, any advice!
Listen in to hear tips, tricks, and reassurances and
encouragement from dozens of bestselling and award-winning
writers!
People Featured, and Links and Topics Mentioned, In
This Episode



Podcasts I listened to obsessively, which inspired me to
start this podcast, include Fresh Air with Teri Gross, WTF
with Marc Maron, and You Made it Weird with Pete Holmes


Veronica Roth, author of the Divergent series, Carve the Mark
duology and the forthcoming short story collection, The End and
Other Beginnings: Stories from the Future (listen to her First
Draft podcasts here, here, and here)



Kayla Cagan, author of Piper Perish and Art Boss (listen to
her First Draft interview here)




Will Hines, author of How to be the Greatest Improviser on
Earth (hear his First Draft episode here)




Sara Farizan, author of Here to Stay, Tell Me Again How a
Crush Should Feel, If You Could Be Mine (hear her First Draft
interview here)




Kass Morgan, author of The 100 series and Light Years (stay
tuned for her episode of First Draft!)




Tochi Onyebuchi, author of Beasts Made of Night, Crown of
Thunder, and War Girls series




Tochi recommends playing narrative video games, like God of
War, Assassin's Creed, or Red Dead Redemption




Leigh Bardugo, author of the Shadow and Bone series and Six
of Crows duology, and the forthcoming adult novel, Ninth
House , and more (listen to her First Draft interviews here
and here)




Josh Gondelman, author of the forthcoming memoir Nice Try,
writer and producer of “Desus and Mero” and Emmy-winning
writer for “Last Week Tonight on John Oliver” (hear his First
Draft interview soon!)




Maris Kreizman, author of Slaughterhouse 90210 and host of
LitHub’s The Maris Review podcast




Ryan Graudin, author of the Wolf by Wolf, Invictus, The
Walled City, and more (hear her First Draft interview here)




Sabriel by Garth Nix




Jason Reynolds, author of Look Both Ways, the Track series,
Long Way Down, As Brave As You, All American Boys, and many
more (stay tuned for his episode of First Draft)




The New Yorker




The Newberry Award; The National Book Award; The Pulitzer
Prize




Stephanie Garber, author of the Caraval series (listen to her
First Draft episode here)




Elana K. Arnold, author of A Boy Called Bat, Damsel, What
Girls Are Made Of, Infandous, and more (listen to her First
Draft episodes here and here)




Lance Rubin, author of Denton's Little's Deathdate, Denton's
Little's Still Not Dead, and Crying Laughing (listen to his
First Draft episode here)




Freedom (computer app)




Deep Work Work by Cal Newport




Courtney Summers, including Sadie, Cracked Up to Be, This Is
Not a Test, Fall for Anything, All the Rage, Some Girls Are
(hear her First Draft episodes here and here)




“Real Romance,” The New Yorker profile about Nora Roberts




Mary H. K. Choi, author of Emergency Contact and Permanent
Record (stay tuned for her episode of First Draft)




The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) and Dia:Beacon




Bridget Tyler, author of The Pioneer and The Survivor (listen
to her First Draft episode here)




Scientific American, which Veronica just subscribed to




Samantha Mabry, author of A Fierce and Subtle Poison and All
the Wind in the World (listen to her First Draft episode
here)




Elissa Sussman, author of Stray and Burn (listen to her First
Draft interview here)




Abdi Nazemian, author of Like a Love Story, The Authentics,
and The Walk-In Closet (listen to his First Draft interview
here)




Madonna, the queen of Abdi’s book




The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron




Morgan Matson, author of he Date, Amy & Roger's Epic
Detour, The Unexpected Everything, and more! (listen to her
First Draft interviews here and here)




Julie Buxbaum, author of Tell Me Three Things, What to Say
Next, and Hope and Other Punchlines (listen to her First
Draft interview here)




Danielle Paige, author of Dorothy Must Die, Stealing Snow and
Mera: Tidebreaker (listen to her First Draft episode here)




David Yoon, author of Frankly in Love (stay tuned for his
episode of First Draft!)




Zan Romanoff, author of Look (due Spring 2020) and A Song to
Take The World Apart and Grace and the Fever (listen to her
First Draft interview here)




Writing Workshops LA




Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat, The Thorn
Necklace, and so many more (listen to her First Draft episode
here)




Aminah Mae Safi, author of Not the Girls You're Looking For
and Tell Me How You Really Feel (listen to her First Draft
interview here)




Alex London, author of Black Wings Beating, Proxy, The Wild
Ones series and more (listen to his First Draft episodes here
and here)




Nina LaCour, author of We Are Okay, The Disenchantments,
Everything Leads to You, Hold Still and more (hear her First
Draft episodes here and here), and listen to Nina’s podcast,
Keeping a Notebook




Hamline University’s MFA program




The Slow Novel Lab, Nina LaCour’s online course on writing




Lilliam Rivera, author of Dealing In Dreams and The Education
Of Margot Sanchez, (listen to her First Draft interviews here
and here)




Pseudonymous Bosch, aka Raphael Simon (author of the The Name
of This Book is a Secret and the Bad Magic series, and more)
and Shane Pangburn, who together created The Unbelievable
Oliver and the Four Jokers (stay tuned for their First Draft
episode!)




Amy Lukavics, author of Daughters into Devils and The
Ravenous (listen to her First Draft episode here)




Maurene Goo, author of Somewhere Only We Know, I Believe in a
Thing Called Love and The Way You Make Me Feel and Since You
Asked (Listen to Maurene’s first, second, and third episodes
of First Draft)




That time Maurene interviewed Sarah Enni for this podcast!
(The Sarah Enni episode of First Draft )


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Every Tuesday, I speak to storytellers like Veronica Roth, author
of Divergent; Linda Holmes, author and host of NPR’s Pop Culture
Happy Hour podcast; Jonny Sun, internet superstar, illustrator of
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Gmorning, Gnight! and author and illustrator
of Everyone’s an Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too;  Michael
Dante  DiMartino, co-creator of Avatar: The Last Airbender;
John August, screenwriter of Big Fish, Charlie’s Angels, and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; or Rhett Miller, musician and
frontman for The Old 97s. Together, we take deep dives on their
careers and creative works.



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