Podcast · Ongoing series, roughly hour-long episodes

How I Write (podcast)

David Perell · Apple Podcasts Free Intermediate

Instead of one more listicle of voice tips, this is working writers walking through how their own voice actually formed, mess and all. Perell interviews people like David Sedaris and Michael Pollan about the real process, from staring at the keyboard to the final draft, so you hear how differently each one got there. Listening across a few episodes is the fastest way to see that there is no single right voice to copy.

• Every strong writer arrived at their voice by a different, often slow route.
• The craft is in the process (drafting, cutting, reading aloud), not a fixed style.
• Studying how several writers work frees you from imitating any one of them.