The Story Toolkit Bassim El-Wakil

In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

In this eleventh episode, I have the pleasure of talking to Roger Langridge, award-winning cartoonist, and writer of one of my favourite comics, Thor: The Mighty Avenger. He talks about his desire for fame as a cartoonist and how he matured past that need.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The tenth episode is with my one of my oldest and closest friends, Willard Foxton-Todd, who guest-starred on a couple of Toolkit episodes. An award-winning producer of television and podcasts, Will talks about his yearning to write personal fiction and the sense of worth attached to that process.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The ninth episode is with John McLean-Foreman. A narrative designer for various game companies, he discusses his burn out from that industry and his reasons for moving to writing a self-help book.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The eighth episode is with Gavin Verhey, a game designer for Magic: The Gathering. We talk about how Gavin's desire to write and how fulfilling a creative outlet game design can be.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The seventh episode is with Jonny White, an academic scholar of psychology and entrepreneur. With a strong love for story and desire to write his own works, I chatted to him about his standards of success and the process of over-intellectualising the creative act and analysis paralysis.

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In Islam, Jihad means the struggle for peace, particularly within oneself. In this podcast series I interview writers at different points in their careers to talk about struggling and finding peace in their work. Contact me @bassimstory and you can support this series at my Patreon of my name: Bassim El-Wakil (www.patreon.com/user?u=4409461)

The sixth episode is Daniel Joshua Rubin, author of 27 Essential Principles of Story: Master the Secrets of Great Storytelling, from Shakespeare to South Park. DJR talks about living the life of a writer and the bizarre eddies of trying to make it in LA, in one entertaining anecdote after another.

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