If you’ve been reading for a while, you’ll know I’m a huge fan of Brendan Leonard’s work. For decades he’s been a tirelessly/recklessly brave writer, filmmaker, artist and creative experimenter who really seems to love having a go at absolutely everything - while also building his own instantly recognisable style, a widely-respected and award-winning body of work, an obsessively engaged readership and a social media following in the hundreds of thousands.

(Achieving both those things simultaneously? I think that’s rare! If you’ve ever felt like you always have to pick one or the other, to niche down or to chase everything that seems interesting to you, Brendan’s here to say you can definitely do both, and also that life is absurd & short so you should probably just do what’s actually fun and let the rest sort itself out along the way, which hopefully involves a lot of pizza.)

I’ve never talked to him face to face - so it was a pleasure, an honour and a total blast to do so for an hour over Substack’s Live Video service a couple of days ago, to talk about his new & thoroughly brilliant online writing & storytelling course, based on workshops he’s been running in person for the last 6 years.

You can listen to our chat here (or watch it, in the replay in my newsletter) - and please click below to check out Brendan’s course, and to take the first lesson of it for free:https://semi-rad.com/courses/

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