Episode 110 Bonus: Erin Zimmerman on Revising Structure

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Episode 110 Bonus: Erin Zimmerman on Revising Structure

Christie Aschwanden

Apr 25, 2024

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Is it really important for a project to have unproductive days? In this bonus episode we talk with botanist and writer Erin Zimmerman about how she met this unwanted advice, plus how data inspires her creative practice and and how hard it is to walk away from our ideas about how a creative project is structured.

Erin Zimmerman is an evolutionary biologis…

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Emerging Form is a podcast about the creative process in which a journalist (Christie Aschwanden) and a poet (Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer) discuss creative conundrums over wine. Each episode concludes with a game of two questions in which a guest joins in to help answer questions about the week's topic. Season one guests include poets, novelists, journalists, a song writer, a circus performer, a sketch artist and a winemaker.

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