I am full of grand ideas. They aren’t necessarily “grand” in quality, rather they are “grand” in that usually it means I would be biting off more than I can chew. (Given the way I eat, one would think that very tough to accomplish.) This week, another came to me. But it’s one that I am not able to let go.
It came after I went on a search for writing podcasts, or better said: podcasts about writing. There were a lot that came up in the search. I became giddy, but soon that giddiness was replaced with surprise. Of all that I saw, only two came up with having been updated in the last 2 or more years, and only one of them actually talked about the craft in the episodes I downloaded.
Then the grand idea hit: what’s stopping me from doing a podcast about writing?
I don’t expect there to be a huge market to fill, if I was even looking in the right place to start with. What I would expect is some cathartic release by doing this—a learning experience of sorts. The idea was that I do a dual format, video and audio, with a variety of topics or interviews/discussions with storytellers at varying stages in their career. I could get people from unknown-nobodies like me to as successful a storyteller or writer I could find willing to talk to me. I really want it to be on the art, on the craft of writing a story of any kind.
It might be a pipe-dream, another of my schemes only set to distract me; however, the fact that it will be so centered on writing, it might be something worthwhile to chase. What do you think? Does it sound like something you would find interesting?
Jeremy C Kester 