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The Craft: Exploring the Creative Process

The Craft: Exploring the Creative Process

Written by: Carter Johnson and Colby S.
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The Craft explores the cultivation of creativity across multiple disciplines and interests. If you're a writer, music producer, photographer, filmmaker, marketer, designer, illustrator, composer, or just someone who loves to learn about the creative process, this show is for you.


Hosted by Carter Davis Johnson (Writer, PhD student) and Colby S. (Marketer, Music Producer).


New episodes drop every other Wednesday.

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Cover art by Elizabeth Newell. Learn more about her work at elizabethnewell.work or on Instagram @elizabethisadesigner.

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Episodes
  • Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism (Book Review)

    Cal Newport's Digital Minimalism (Book Review)
    Mar 7 2024

    [Rebroadcast of Ep. 14]

    In this episode, Carter asks Colby about what he learned from reading Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport.

    Be sure to check out Newport's latest book, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout.

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    33 mins
  • 52 | The Theory of Creativity

    52 | The Theory of Creativity
    Feb 21 2024

    Do legitimate common denominators exists across creative disciplines? If so, can we clearly identify these parallels and unify our thoughts about the creative process? 

    In this episode of The Craft, Carter and Colby wrestle with these questions. They begin to sketch (tentatively) a unifying “theory of creativity.” Such theory might help us, they hope, navigate a broad swath of tools and techniques that vie for our attention.  

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    Chapters:

    0:00 Introduction 

    2:22 Theory of Creativity 

    9:48 Theoretical layers 

    14:08 Marketing example

    21:32 More trees and metaphors 

    28:40 Intermediary tiers

    36:26 Conclusion 

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    Send feedback or ideas - heycraftpodcast@gmail.com

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    Cover art by Elizabeth Newell. Learn more about her work at elizabethnewell.work or on Instagram @elizabethisadesigner.
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    39 mins
  • 51 | How John Steinbeck Reinvented His Craft

    51 | How John Steinbeck Reinvented His Craft
    Feb 7 2024

    Why did John Steinbeck almost give up writing novels? 

    In this episode of The Craft, Carter and Colby inaugurate a new series, Creative Case Studies. Their first installment is a story about American writer John Steinbeck. Specifically, Carter recounts Steinbeck’s creative collapse after writing The Grapes of Wrath. In the midst of personal and professional tumult, Steinbeck attempted to reinvent his craft and develop a new way of thinking. Carter and Colby discuss this creative transformation, considering how we might learn from Steinbeck’s crisis. 

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    Chapters: 

    0:00 Introduction 

    2:55 Steinbeck bio

    4:11 Crisis and reinvention 

    14:28 Takeaways 

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    Support The Craft:

    Subscribe to Dwelling - https://carterdavisjohnson.substack.com

    Send feedback or ideas - heycraftpodcast@gmail.com

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    Cover art by Elizabeth Newell. Learn more about her work at elizabethnewell.work or on Instagram @elizabethisadesigner.
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    26 mins
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