May 6, 2021 • 32M

Episode 40 bonus: Cheryl Strayed's Creative Process

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Christie Aschwanden
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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In this bonus episode, we continue our conversation with author Cheryl Strayed, aka Dear Sugar. We talk about how memories shape writing and then writing shapes memory and the role of time in writing. We speak about her connection to etymology--”Words are power,” she says--and how she handled the level of fame she’s achieved. We speak of how to find the…

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