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How Award-Winning Sports & Travel Writer Adam Skolnick (Author of One Breath ) Writes: Part One
FromThe Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
How Award-Winning Sports & Travel Writer Adam Skolnick (Author of One Breath ) Writes: Part One
FromThe Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Jan 25, 2016
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Podcast episode
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Award-winning journalist and author, Adam Skolnick, returned to the podcast to get down to brass tacks about his writer’s journey, his new book, and the globetrotting life of a travel writer. Rainmaker.FM is Brought to You By Discover why more than 80,000 companies in 135 countries choose WP Engine for managed WordPress hosting. Start getting more from your site today! Adam’s first narrative nonfiction book — One Breath: Freediving, Death, and the Quest to Shatter Human Limits — was recently published by Crown Archetype, and it’s based on his award-winning New York Times sports coverage of the death of the greatest American freediver of all time. One Breath has been compared to other classics of extreme sports journalism — like Jon Krakauer s Into Thin Air — and early reviews have been very positive. In addition to his most recent work, Adam is the author and co author of 25 Lonely Planet guidebooks, and has written for publications as varied as ESPN.com, Men’s Health, Outside, BBC, Playboy Magazine, and The NY Times. Join us for this two-part interview. In Part One of the file Adam Skolnick and I discuss: What It’s Like to do Environmental Work with Jack Johnson How to Become an Award-Winning Journalist … without Taking a Writing Class Why You Should Tell the Stories that Come to You Simple Hacks to Help You Beat Writer’s Block How Daily Word Counts Can Keep Your Writing on Track Listen to The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience below ... Download MP3 Subscribe by RSS Subscribe in iTunes The Show Notes AdamSkolnick.com OneBreathbook.com One Breath Book Trailer Jack Johnson Is Sailing In Search Of Plastic Smog When ‘One Breath’ Tests Life: Author Explores Extreme Freediving – NPR Interview Adam Skolnick Adam Skolnick on Instagram Adam Skolnick on Twitter Kelton Reid on Twitter
Released:
Jan 25, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Writer Porn: Standing Desks, Binge Reading, and James Patterson s MasterClass: This week, award-winning, globe-trotting travel journalist Adam Skolnick returns as guest host for another edition of Writer Porn, where we discuss pertinent, writerly paraphernalia that has crossed our collective radar. Adam is the author and... by The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience