293: Find Your Creative Focus - Interview with Jessica Abel

Hey there word nerds!

Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing Jessica Abel.

Cartoonist and coach Jessica is the founder of the Creative Focus Workshop, and author of Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You're Drowning in Your Daily Life, the graphic novel La Perdida, and two textbooks about making comics, Drawing Words & Writing Pictures and Mastering Comics.

Her book Out on the Wire is about how the best radio and podcast producers in the world use story to keep us listening. Jessica’s latest work of fiction is the Eisner-nominated Trish Trash: Rollergirl of Mars. She is chair of the illustration program at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

In this episode Jessica and I discuss:

• The inspiration behind Growing Gills
• The myth of the muse and “right brain versus left brain”
• The power of time tracking
• Dealing with external and internal nay-sayers
• The power of planning and creating your own rules

Plus, her #1 tip for writers.

For more info and show notes: www.diymfa.com/293