What You Consume Is What You Create

We're recording from a hotel room with questionable acoustics and a very concerned James. Welcome to the Hotel Season! In Episode 1, Amie makes the case that if you want to be a serious artist, you need to be an equally serious consumer, not just of your own genre, but of everything you want to see more of in the world. We get into why consuming great work is more useful than craft content, the stress of reading Robin Hobb when you're trying to write your own novel, how to have a genuinely good scroll on social media, and why the attention you give is the culture you're actually building. Be OUR favourite consumer, READ We Need Your Art:

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What You Consume Is What You Create is an episode from Unpublished by Amie McNee and James Winestock.

This episode is 00:31:45 long.

This episode was published on May 13, 2026.

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