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How do you learn to value your own creative process in a world so focused on results? Join writer Adam Lesser and director Joshua Townshend as we delve deep into the creative process across...
The six-time bestselling author Laura Davis joins a very special episode of NOYN to discuss her latest book The Burning Light of Two Stars....
How do we create boundaries around our commitment to our creative work so that we can thrive and be healthy in that space? In this talk take...
Is there another way of approaching our creative work that stands in between only working when inspiration hits versus keeping a rigid, stru...
How do we nurture our creativity consistently? What do boundaries, discipline, inspiration and intentions have to do with it? Joshua and Ada...
Betty returns with a whole bunch of amazing new material. We discuss how taking notes and integrating them help develop a story as well as h...
The writer Betty Goldstein brings us a special story about her family's move from Brooklyn to Southern California in the 50's. We give her a...
The master of creative process and biographical practitioner Kim Murriera joins Joshua and Adam all the way from the island of Kauai to disc...
One Year Later. The writer Hannah Smith from the NOYN special series, "The Hannah Episodes," returns to talk about what she learned from the...
The inimitable Ann Randolph joins Joshua and Adam to talk about starting Happy Cock Church, where love rules the roost! It's an amazing jour...
How do you want to remember this wild time in your life? How do you gently take steps to engage with your creativity? Also join Joshua and A...
Educator, cartoonist and writer Jessica Abel talks to us about creative focus, self-compassion and making strong decisions about what you're...
How is your creativity doing during the age of corona? If you're anxious, weary, or unfocused, this THE episode for you! Joshua and Adam tal...
How do you take a written story and turn it into a compelling oral story to be told on stage? How do you imbue the words of your story with...
Hannah returns with her close to final draft after multiple rewrites and many turns integrating Joshua and Adam's notes. This episode is jam...
Hannah takes Joshua and Adam's notes and writes and writes and writes:) What does she bring in and how does it begin to alter the story? Sta...
From Notes On Your Notes, this special series answers the ultimate question: How do you go from a story idea to a finished narrative? Join u...
How do you move from stand up comedy to TV writing? How do you write better scenes and develop authentic characters? TV Writer Nora Nolan, w...
Watch a writer go through the full creative process from first draft to final on stage performance! Joshua and Adam bring you the Hannah Epi...
What will the future look like for writers and storytellers? NY Times bestselling author and founder of The Flow Research Collective Steven...
Manager and Producer Alex Flores joins Adam and Joshua for an enlightened conversation about the manager-talent relationship, staying flexib...
Acclaimed writer Laura Davis asks Joshua and Adam: now that she’s finished her most recent book, how does she deal with all the emotions, fr...
The singer-songwriter Clare Means joins Notes On Your Notes to talk about making a career as an independent artist, in the studio, busking a...
Joshua and Adam explore a new tool to figure out how they want to feel in 2020 creatively. From there they set goals for this year for thems...
Joshua and Adam talk about the times in the last 12 months when they were happiest creatively, and what it tells them about where they want...
How do you make a creative vision for 2020 that will inspire you? How do you follow through on it? Joshua and Adam do the 2020 Creative Work...
It's the end of a decade. When you look back what were your creative priorities? What were the priorities in your life? And what do you want...
How do we track the tiny choices each character is making in every scene so that we can write better scenes and tell better stories? * Subsc...
How do we give our characters the space in our stories not to know every answer? How can we reframe not knowing as human and bring authentic...
As artists, it's so important to have an open system, one where we remain flexible, collaborative, being willing to find a way forward! Josh...
Why are the stories we tell ourselves about who we are so critical to our lives as artists? * Subscribe to Notes On Your Notes! * Don't forg...
How do you expand your range of expression so that your can explore difficult parts of yourself, and bring those parts to your creative work...
The first film Morris Ruskin produced was the incredibly unique Glengarry Glen Ross which starred Kevin Spacey, Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon and J...
The value of an outside perspective on your creative work can be invaluable. But what's even more important is knowing what to do with that...
2 Years. 100 Episodes. In October of 2017 we launched Notes on Your Notes with the idea that we'd do 10 or 15 episodes. Test the waters. Wha...
What do you do when you disengage from a movie, a play, a TV show, any story? Joshua and Adam talk about how asking yourself why you've lost...
To work or not work on multiple projects at the same time, that is the question. Joshua is a strong yes on this question. Adam sees it in a...
Touch, Taste, Sight, Smell, Sound. What's the dominant sensory experience in your life that helps you take in the world? And what does it sa...
Why is it so important to understand a character's emotional wound and then put that part of the character under stress? Yet again, Joshua a...
Why is meeting with other creatives so important and what is the right mindset for approaching meetings with people who have the potential t...
Most people just sit down to write. Joshua and Adam discuss the advantages of having specific practices they do prior to creating to put the...
Joshua talks about a friend's date that went wrong, and examines how it reflects the choices characters make. * October 20th, in Downtown LA...
How do we create habits in our lives that support our work as artists? Joshua and Adam have some incredibly helpful tips. * October 20th, in...
Joshua and Adam talk about the three parts of the creative process--create, release, relax--and how to be aware of where in the process you...
How aware of their flaws and misbehaviors are your characters over the trajectory of the story? It's a subtle but important point but the mo...
Joshua and Adam share secret parts of their lives and histories. Also they discuss the difference between artistic technique and artistic PO...
What can we learn about storytelling and character from astrology? What if astrology was a way to more deeply understand your characters? As...
What do the people, places or objects that attract or repulse us tell us about our character? Knowing what your characters in your stories l...
Joshua and Adam balk at this question: "When Do You Know To Quit?" They examine the notion of success, committing to creative projects, and...
Can dissecting a joke teach us about how a story works? * Study with Joshua at Hollyhock in July! * Don't forget to download the NOYN 2019 C...
Do we access a story idea from the macro level (a story about love and redemption) or micro detail (the locket his lover wore)? Knowing how...