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Gifted Underachievers

Pat Dobie, James Buchanan

The podcast for midlevel creatives with delusional ambitions

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Latest Issues

Episode 118: Gifted Underachievers

With Halloween approaching the Gifted Underachievers ask: Is Halloween the most creative holiday? Halloween is the black licorice of holidays. Not a lot of people like black licorice, but those who do really love it. And when we look at the...

8 days ago

Creatives Make Good Vampires

A recent road trip by Gifted Underachiever Pat led her to some thoughts on how far we can go in using other people in our art. Can we base characters or story events on people we know and things we’ve seen happen to them?

If yes, what are...

8 days ago

Delusional Goal Update

Waaaayyyy back the Gifted Underachievers stated their delusional goals for the next three to five years. Let’s see how things are going.

Pat: Win the Booker Prize.

James: Receive a call from the Nobel committee for the literature prize....

8 days ago

Is Halloween the most creative holiday?

Halloween can be the black licorice of holidays: Not everybody loves it but those who do, really, really love it. And for many of them, it’s all the creativity that can go into Halloween, the costumes, decorations, haunted barns, and on and...

8 days ago

Episode 117: Gifted Underachievers

Ah, October! The year is waning, and we start to realize that our creative goals and deadlines have an ever-shortening window if we’re going to get them done before the calendar changes over to 2027.

This week, we have a brief and nonparti...

15 days ago

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  • Pat Dobie

    Writer, book editor, and cocreator of the Gifted Underachievers podcast on Substack. Visit me at patdobie.com

  • James Buchanan

    Ghostwriter and developmental editor who would much rather write fiction all day.

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