
Episode 80: Stop Time
Jen and Tim are both not working. Jen is setting up her new life in Sweden. Tim is sick and mostly just sitting around reading. Quiet time,...
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An intimate weekly phone call mostly about art-making, between 10 Letters Project co-writers and friends, Jen Lee and Tim Manley.

Jen and Tim are both not working. Jen is setting up her new life in Sweden. Tim is sick and mostly just sitting around reading. Quiet time,...

Jen is finding her footing in Sweden, spending time with friends and family. Tim is crashing hard into summer time and can barely remember w...

Jen made it to Sweden. Tim made it to the end of Season 2 of The Feels. Both of them are pretty tired.

Jen and Tim have a lot happening: a big move across the country, and a big release of a show. But the reality of their days don’t exactly ma...

Jen and Tim debrief the road trip for filming Jen's "Gather."

Jen and Tim are both in unusual times. Jen is boxing up all of her projects before the family’s move to Sweden. Tim is preparing his show fo...

Jen and Tim were depleted after major projects. But now they’re back in action. Super-powered. Fully stocked. 100%. Sort of. Or, at least, t...

Monday was the premiere of Bright Lights at the Manhattan Film Festival. Jen shares how it all felt for her.

Recorded a weeks ago but misplaced by Tim, and hampered by auditory issues, this lost episode has now been unearthed and is available for JC...

Jen and Tim both have way too much to do, but thankfully they know how to bend time so they can fit everything in. Or at least they have som...

Tim continues to make a web series around the edges of all the other things he does to pay the bills. Jen is running a fever and just doing...

Tim continues to film Season Two of The Feels while starting work for the next phase of editing. Jen is cycling between many projects in dif...

Jen’s documentary, Bright Lights, has been accepted into the Manhattan Film Festival! It’ll debut in late April! She discusses all the thoug...

Jen reflects on the pacing of her process: speeding for a time, and resting deeply for a time. Tim is mostly just lying broken by the side o...

Jen is editing together the first footage from her film, and finding it’s… pretty great. Tim is almost halfway through shooting the second s...

Tim has begun filming Season Two of The Feels, and attempts to speak truthfully about what that feels like. (Something like: Depleting.) Jen...

We’re both usually completing whole projects completely on our own, from start to finish. But now, either because of the scope of what we’re...

We’re trying to make sense of the past week, trying to make sense of what to do with ourselves, with our art, with our energies. It’s hard t...

Jen is resting in bed, but about to enter a storm of work. Tim is preparing to enter Super Mode for the next six weeks, and so is being deli...

Jen is speeding through some trailers for her old documentary, and Tim is bringing together all the plans for the new season of The Feels. W...

It’s the new year and we are… fine? We’ve both been cleaning our closets and reorganizing our entire lives. We both have mixed feelings abou...

We’re getting a little done, getting a lot of family time in, and mostly just keepin’ on keepin’ on. Not much to say, but we’re finding some...

Tim is kind of hungover and exhausted, but less grumpy than in the past few weeks. Jen is open and lucid. We try to put into words what is u...

Tim is revising and revising the next season of The Feels in the wake of the new world order. Jen is listening to her children laugh and div...

After the holiday weekend, we’re both in recovery mode. Power down, then slowly do cleaning and organizational tasks. Prepare the space so t...

While we don’t want to consider what’s been happening the past two weeks normal, we do recognize we need to upgrade ourselves to become peop...

Jen takes some time to reflect on the past week, in physical health, in political health, and in creative milestones. Tim is still embroiled...

We’re working on stories that are quiet, unpolished, and maybe human? And next we’ll try to exist in them honestly. Uncertainties and hopes.

Jen and Tim are both learning to ask for help. For a while, it was correct to learn how to do every part of the process on their own. What o...

Tim is trying to learn how to break out of his slow-and-steady routine, and allow space for lightning strikes. Jen advises.

Jen and Tim talk about the apparent poshness of creative work, and its relation to the regular work mentality that more effort leads to more...

After Monday's call, Jen and Tim started recording again, and captured these bonus after-thoughts. Jen has a theory of non-linear time, wher...

Tim walks steadily, forward and forward, without resting much and without going too fast. Jen rests, lets everything silently settle into th...

Jen is inviting collaborators into her new project, but is worried about doing so when there could be unforeseen cracks in the plan. Tim is...

Tim is finishing work on Season 1 of The Feels, and excited to reinstitute good daily habits and move into whatever’s next. Jen is continuin...

Sometimes it’s like a faucet, other times like a firehose. Jen and Tim are both in a moment of excess, with full schedules and too many thin...

Jen is secretly, quietly, sideways-working on a new idea without scaring it away, and letting it come out and get written down without going...

Jen and Tim are both running on empty. It’s the end of the summer and Jen’s in the final stretch of family time. Tim’s The Feels is out, and...

Tim’s premiere of The Feels is tonight. He and Jen talk about the challenges of asking for help, and trying to help someone who’s buried in...

Jen returns home and re-establishes routines while avoiding emails. Tim presents Jen with a challenging decision for his online show: A crea...

Jen and Tim are in totally different places–physically and with their work. Tim is re-navigating the age-old challenge of lessening stress a...

Jen and Tim each have a lot to say today that isn’t usually said publicly. Jen is surviving a long period away from home and routine. Tim is...

Tim’s Kickstarter is finishing up and his web show The Feels will be out in a month. But before that, Tim must go through all the doubts and...

Jen and Tim talk about Mike Birbiglia’s new film, Don’t Think Twice, and artwork and artists that feel like friends (and sometimes like fren...

Tim lets the wheels fall off his routine for the first time in a while, and realizes how well he’d actually been organizing his life. Outsid...

Summer has started and Jen and Tim’s normal routines are totally scrambled. Tim tries to hold onto good habits but the new Final Fantasy gam...

Walking on stage, walking into meetings, walking into rooms of loved ones or colleagues… Jen and Tim can sometimes approach these moments wi...

Jen is beginning to show a draft of her film to the first circles of viewers, and her embarrassment is setting in. Tim’s work-around for thi...

Jen is in the long finishing process for her film, and Tim is probably not as close to finishing a draft of his novel as he thought. They ta...

Jen and Tim get into some real talk about the days it seems impossible to lift your head, let alone a pencil. Coaching yourself through the...