Creativity and being creative shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Did you know that 94% of comedians are 87% cleverer than fish? Yes. A lot of stuff doesn’t make sense online but Jelly Trumpet does. Why? Years of experience and a willingness to be silly every moment and for every breath on this planet.

Stuff We’ll Hear in this Episode:

• How the literal world means you could be drinking a Scotch Egg
• Nigel, the drummer performs his first solo
• We meet Henk van Mann, Professor of Liquid Creativity
• We talk Jungian archetypes, well a little bit

And I share stuff. In this episode I experience darkness and how to avoid the pits, wells, and puddles of despair that comes from creative intent.

You Are Your Own Medicine
‘You are Your Own Medicine’ is all about keeping a journal. The journal becomes your coach.

We’re all about the use of your time for the best in this episode. If you write and you find it difficult to start then pay attention to ‘setting a time to write’. This is hardcore. I suspect not many will be able to do it. But from my experience it works if you are persistent. I am also sure it works for any creative discipline. You just have to put in the graft.

In short, in this episode:

02:18 You Are Your Own Medicine
05:03 Challenge at Home,preparation & incubation plus ‘the compost heap’
07:46 Creative Hero Time, Eddie Izzard and the art of reincorporation
10:17 Guest Spot, with Jess King, actor & teacher

Guest Spot: Jess King, actor

11:35 Earliest creative memory
13:38 What influences you?
15:12 Documenting every audition and job
18:24 The Scowling Dusk
19:56 Which three things wouldn’t you take to a desert island?

Plus:

23:10 Challenge Jim, 10 ideas for plays featuring mice
24:30 Tot Topic, writing deadlines and self care
26:43 List of The Week, Jungian character types 
28:29 Further Thinking Spot, Bored Panda

29:26 Music from ‘We Paint Houses’, ‘Don’t Take Me Home’

31:50 Ends


Guest Spot – Jess King, actor

We talk to the talented Jess King. I’ve had the joy of performing on stage with Jess, she saved my bacon every night. Jess is also a teacher, singer and dancer, plus working in the movies. We have a insightful conversation about creativity for an actor. 

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We’re not too serious and we have a fun show like an old-time radio programme. This episode we meet Nigel, the squirrel who loves drum solos.

Stuff We’ll Hear in this Episode:

• How to use a red flag for argument’s sake
• An award ceremony for award ceremonies.
• 3 fabulous tweets from the Swansea branch of Waterstones

And I share stuff I’ve done as a creative writer. This episode I talk about my first stage play and about the regret of working with a friend.

You Are Your Own Medicine

‘You are Your Own Medicine’ is all about keeping a journal. The journal becomes your coach. You record what works for you and what doesn’t. Only you can make yourself as creative as a doughnut and pretty as a Victoria Sponge.

In this interlude I cover the power of the humble index card and the pleasure of using a scale on each journal entry.

How to be creative is all down to you. Finding your own time and space, the tools that make you creative AND productive, plus finding ideas you wouldn’t have got to without ‘being your own medicine.’

In short, in this episode:

01:52 You Are Your Own Medicine
05:29 Challenge at Home, ‘What if?’ Plus a quota.
07:41 Creative Hero Time, Edward de Bono, 6 Thinking Hats
10:01 Guest Spot, with Adam Hunt, White Label Comedy

Guest Spot: Adam Hunt from White Label Comedy:

11:02 Combining comedy with marketing
12:09 Knocking it [the brief] into shape
12:13 Accessing the Campaign
14:18 ‘I can do anything I want’
15:37 Innocent Drinks
17:01 ‘Different sizes of paper’
20:15 The One Show, Jeremy Vine and All Saints

Plus:

24:12 Challenge Jim
25:01 Hot Topic, ‘Saying NO!’, Owning your own work
27:03 List of the week, Waterstones Swansea and tweets ‘…the thesaurus leak’
28:24 Further Thinking Spot, Tony Buzan and mind-mapping
29:19 Music from ‘We Paint Houses’, ‘One of a Kind’

32:14 Ends

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Dive in for silly, surreal and odd interludes, o’ and some great music from the house band ‘We Paint Houses.’

Stuff We’ll Hear in this Episode:

• The famous glacier in Watford
• Why we need a fourth traffic light
• What if the United States of America finally invaded the United Kingdom?
• We meet Arthur-Maurice ‘Butcher to the Stars’ (giving the lowdown on Rita Ora)

And I share stuff I’ve done as a creative writer in ‘Stuff I’ve Done’ interlude.

You Are Your Own Medicine

We’ll be tackling the core of this season’s help for creative types and that is ‘You are Your Own Medicine’. We’ll be encouraging you to take the ‘Challenge at Home’ and we have a guest spot in each episode that enquires of each person what makes them tick, where their ideas come from and their one magic tip that makes them the creative person they are.

All this and utter daftness, where, I, yes Jim gets challenged live on air with a creative exercise (spoiler, I may cheat depending on the amount of coffee in my system), we look at a hot topic to do with creativity and we have a ‘List of the Week’ everyone loves lists eh?

In short, in this episode:

01:54 You Are Your Own Medicine
04:53 Challenge at Home, Wildmind
08:33 Creative Hero Time, Michael Bentine
11:31 Guest Spot, with Mr b from ‘We Paint Houses’

Guest Spot: Mr b, from ‘We Paint Houses’

12:23 Logic Pro
13:50 Writing Down the Bones, ‘The Compost Heap’
18:49 Why getting the bass down is important
20:45 ‘What do you do when stuck?’
23:28 ‘What would you tell a 10 year old about how to be creative?

Plus:

24:53 Challenge Jim
26:38 Hot Topic
28:14 List of the Week, Top 10 Animated Movies
29:22 Further Thinking Spot
30:20 Music from ‘We Paint Houses’ play ‘Breathe’

36:36 Ends

Guest Spot – Mr b of ‘We Paint Houses’

Well, this is a pilot and Mr b was around so I thought I’d interview him. Why? He’s highly creative and has a rather unique way of working on his music projects.

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