Today would be a good day to get a feel for my “See the World! Podcast,” in which I’m reading my upcoming book, See the World!, a chapter at a time.
The reason I say it would be a good day for that: It’s the shortest chapter, so you’ll be in and out in a little over a minute. I’ll even let you read along:
It’s all connected
I want to write more stories.
I want to learn more stories.
I want to write more songs.
I want to learn more songs.
I want to write more books.
I want to read more books.
Like almost all of the book, the thought began life as a blog post. Back on Jan. 12, I wanted to make the point — and I’m pretty sure I did — that if you want to write stories, you should learn other people’s stories and study how they wrote them. Same with songs: If you want to be a songwriter, you should examine other people’s songs and techniques. And if you want to write books, you should read books so you know what a book is.
The podcast is my way of encouraging you to buy the book, of course. My hope is after a few podcast episodes, you’ll want to read ahead. The recording also does double-duty, because eventually I’ll assemble the chapters into an audiobook that will also be out there on the market so you can hear it all at once, without the repetitive intro and outro to each chapter.
See the World! will be available in print-on-demand paperback or ebook starting a week from today, June 10, 2025. My intention, if you’ll pardon me for doing so, is to give you these little tastes of the book every day over this next week, again, to encourage you to pre-order it so it makes a little bit of a splash next Tuesday and booksellers say, “Oh! People are buying this book. This might be a good new one to put on our shelves.”
And so here is Episode 14, the shortest episode of the See the World! Podcast:
