Welcome to the Creatively Complicated podcast, where we dive into the messiness of our creativity. Summer and Stephanie are two Americans living abroad in two different countries: Germany and China.

In this episode we get very creatively meta. Rabbit holes take us down a technology and terminology time warp. Then a quote from  Ira Glass of This American Life podcast sheds light on what makes the beginning of a creative project difficult. Spoiler: it is the gap between what your taste wants of the project and what you can actually do at the beginning. This leads the way to us working through how exactly we know when we are getting better at something, if we should apologize for our known initial shortcomings and if it's better to dive into a project or take it slow and methodical. All kinds of comparisons to language learning, writing and communication methods gets involved in this discussion.

 Terms:

"Farsickness" - Fernweh in German

"Discovery writer"-a writer who learns what they want to say by writing (as opposed to writing to say something)

 Links:

-The Creative Gap (Ira Glass): 

in written format: http://bit.ly/2WpbNKf

in video format: https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/29/ira-glass-success-daniel-sax/

-Better Podcasting, a podcast on podcasting that rocks Steph's world

-Ignorance Was Bliss Podcast, (note: Steph said the name was Ignorance Is Bliss, sorry Kate) . This podcast is as raw and honest as a podcast can get. Kate, you are truly amazing!

Quotes:

"....it's trying to be good." -Ira Glass (its referring to the creative project)

"If you're a good, curious creator, you want to continue to learn and improve." -Summer

 "Academia is my bitch." -Steph (and yes, she knows full well she will regret highlighting this later.)

Contact us: 

Creatively Complicated (in Internetland):

Email: creativelycomplicatedpodcast@gmail.com

Summer (in Germany):  

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/summeroutside/

Blog: https://eatsomethinggosomewhere.com/

Stephanie: (in China):

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephfuccio/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/stephfuccio

Website (3 other podcasts cause I am a crazy person!): https://stephfuccio.weebly.com/