Poet Adrian Sanders joins us to discuss the importance of boredom for creativity!
As a poet, Adrian also answers the question, “Is Taylor Swift a poet?”
We reference the article, “You can’t have creativity without boredom” by Aaron Angello, so we highly encourage you to read it!
Adrian Sanders is a full-time copy editor living in Elizabethtown, KY. She is a graduate of Western Kentucky University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English-Creative Writing. Her poems have appeared in various print and online publications such as Indiana Review Online, Juke Joint, Maudlin House, GASHER, and others. Sanders’s chapbooks are This Side of the Dirt and Lynchian. They can be found at B**S** Lit and Alien Buddha Press, respectively.
BOOKS WE TALK ABOUT
All of these are no in our bookshop!
The Liturgy of the Ordinary by Tish Warren
Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson
LISTENER RESPONSE
Dr. David Lenoir shares his views on speculative fiction in response to our afterthought, “Speculative Fiction: The REAL Definition.”
HEY JON MEYERS
Learn more about today’s secret topic here and here!
CALL TO ACTION
Put your phone down and notice your surroundings. Tell us how it goes!
NOTES
00:00 Come to the WriterCon retreat in Canebrake, Oklahoma!
01:07 Welcome! This week’s Quite The List
02:24 How we got out of out bubbles this week. (There was no #StupidWalk this week.)
02:59 A lemonade stand!
06:32 There IS a #StupidWalk after all.
06:47 A second lemonade stand? Is this the life or what?
11:26 Emily and her church serves the community! Very inspiring!
14:26 A viewer responds to our #speculativefiction video. #HotTake
16:37 Adrian Sanders presents the #BigIdea: Boredom is necessary for #creativity.
17:58 Autographing conventions
19:28 YOU NEED BOREDOM
26:00 Redirecting you thoughts
34:14 Sourdough
39:15 The heart of a poem
40:15 Should your day job engage your mind?
46:40 Taylor Swift
49:00 Delete social media from your phone!
50:35 Adrian’s CALL TO ACTION for YOU: Put your phone down and notice your surroundings
53:48#HEYJONMEYERS What’s the largest organism?
1:01:56 Like, Subscribe, Follow FIND US!!!
1:02:24 THE FINAL ACT Jon Meyers doesn’t know his Disney
1:08:25 Do you miss Baggie yet?
1:11:45 We couldn’t have done it without you!