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Creative conversations and mindset coaching. Creative Momentum with Meg is a podcast featuring thoughtful conversations with writers, artists, musicians and performers about creative practice, process, and what it takes to keep going. Hosted by Meg Dunley, a creativity coach, each episode explores the rhythms of creative life—routine, doubt, momentum, rest, and persistence—with people making work across different disciplines and stages of practice. These are conversations about how creative work actually happens: not just the finished outcomes, but the habits, tensions, and questions that shape the work over time. Some episodes are short and focused, others more expansive. All are grounded in curiosity, honesty, and a belief that creative momentum is something that can be nurtured, not forced. Episodes are released weekly and are available in both audio and video formats. Show notes: megdunley.substack.com <br/><br/><a href="https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley?utm_medium=podcast">megdunley.substack.com</a>

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June 17, 2026

S2E16: Author Cassie Stroud on making things out of nothing, one row at a time

<p><strong>Season 2: The Home Season</strong></p><p>The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.</p><p><strong>Episode 16: Cassie Stroud, Author</strong></p><p>Cassie Stroud is a Sydney writer, editor and bookseller whose debut novel Iluka was published by HQ Fiction Australia in February 2026. A family drama set on the south coast of NSW, Iluka centres on three siblings who reunite after their grandfather’s death and discover their mother, long presumed dead, may still be alive. The manuscript was written over many years, mostly in snatches and longhand around freelance editorial work and raising a small child. Cassie has been writing all her life not because she was chasing publication but because creativity, in all its forms, is simply how she lives. This is a conversation about what it means to make things for the love of making them, and why that might be the most important creative disposition of all.</p><p>In this interview, we talk about:</p><p>How Cassie writes in short bursts of longhand to delineate it from her paid work</p><p>Why she thinks of creativity as the whole point of living and the alarm bell when she’s consuming more than creating</p><p>How knitting taught her the single most useful thing she knows about writing a novel</p><p>What ‘done is better than perfect’ really means in practice</p><p>The freedom of making work that has no purpose or audience</p><p>Whether you are trying to find your way into a longer project, wondering whether you are a creative person or just needing to be reminded that a little bit, done consistently, is enough, this episode will settle something in you.</p><p>Cassie is wise, warm and very funny, and she makes creativity feel like what it actually is: the best bit of being human.</p><p><strong>Connect with Cassie</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/cassie.stroud/">Instagram</a> - <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/cassie.stroud/">https://www.instagram.com/cassie.stroud/</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://cassiestroud.com/">Website</a>: <a target="_blank" href="http://cassiestroud.com/">http://cassiestroud.com</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://harpercollins.com.au/products/9781038933652">Book: </a><a target="_blank" href="https://harpercollins.com.au/products/9781038933652">Iluka</a><a target="_blank" href="https://harpercollins.com.au/products/9781038933652"> </a> h<a target="_blank" href="https://harpercollins.com.au/products/9781038933652">ttps://harpercollins.com.au/products/9781038933652</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley"><strong>Find all Creative Momentum with Meg show notes</strong></a><strong> and interviews: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley"><strong>https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley</strong></a></p><p>A special thanks to Yvonne Morton for the music accompanying this episode. You can find Yvonne on <a target="_blank" href="https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> (<a target="_blank" href="https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/">https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/</a>) and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/">Instagram</a>.(<a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/">https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/</a>)</p><p>Get full access to Musings with Meg at <a target="_blank" href="http://megdunley.substack.com/subscribe">megdunley.substack.com/subscribe</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Musings with Meg at <a href="https://megdunley.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">megdunley.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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June 10, 2026

S2E15: Author Sophie Stern on debut novels, pantsing it and making time for writing when life says otherwise

<p><strong>Season 2: The Home Season</strong></p><p>The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.</p><p><strong>Episode 15: Sophie Stern, Author</strong></p><p>Sophie Stern is a Sydney-based author whose debut novel What Is Left For Us (Penguin Random House, March 2026) centres on two estranged sisters forced to reunite when they jointly inherit their grandmother’s clifftop house in Bondi. Her manuscript was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize in 2024 and subsequently published this year. Sophie has spent the years since writing while working four days a week in a corporate job and raising a young son. This is a conversation about how to get a novel written when life only gives you one day a week, and what happens when you try to do it differently the second time around.</p><p>In this episode, we cover:</p><p>How Sophie built her writing life around one sacred Friday a week</p><p>The difference between pantsing her first novel and plotting her second</p><p>How she uses spreadsheets to plan backwards and leave a trail of breadcrumbs</p><p>Why she stopped feeling like her corporate job and her creative life were in conflict</p><p>Where her inspiration comes from</p><p>How growing up in a musical family shaped her relationship with structure, rhythm and creative playlists</p><p>Whether you are trying to finish a first novel around a full-time job and a small child, wondering whether pantsing or plotting is your thing or just looking for the permission slip to write the way that actually works for you, this episode is full of it. Sophie is thoughtful, funny and completely honest about the messiness of the process, and she makes writing feel possible.</p><p><strong>Connect with Sophie</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/sophie.e.stern/">Instagram</a> - <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/sophie.e.stern/">https://www.instagram.com/sophie.e.stern/</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://creativepracticenewsletter.substack.com">Substack: Creative Practice</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="http://sophiestern.com.au/">Website</a>: <a target="_blank" href="http://sophiestern.com.au/">http://sophiestern.com.au</a></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.penguin.com.au/books/what-is-left-for-us-9781761354441">Book: What is Left For Us</a> https://www.penguin.com.au/books/what-is-left-for-us-9781761354441</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley"><strong>Find all Creative Momentum with Meg show notes</strong></a><strong> and interviews: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley"><strong>https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley</strong></a></p><p>A special thanks to Yvonne Morton for the music accompanying this episode. You can find Yvonne on <a target="_blank" href="https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> (<a target="_blank" href="https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/">https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/</a>) and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/">Instagram</a>.(<a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/">https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/</a>)</p><p>Get full access to Musings with Meg at <a target="_blank" href="http://megdunley.substack.com/subscribe">megdunley.substack.com/subscribe</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Musings with Meg at <a href="https://megdunley.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">megdunley.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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June 3, 2026

S2E14: Author Lauren Novak on mum rage, debut books + journalism instincts that shape her writing

<p><strong>Season 2: The Home Season</strong></p><p>The second season of Creative Momentum with Meg, The Home Season, features interviews with Australian writers and artists where I explore how and why people do their creative work.</p><p><strong>Episode 14: Lauren Novak, Author</strong></p><p>Lauren Novak is an award-winning journalist at The Advertiser in Adelaide and the debut author of Meltdown: Why Motherhood Makes Us Angry and What to Do About It, published by HarperCollins in 2026. Having spent more than two decades covering family violence, child safety and education, Lauren turned her professional skills inward when she found herself experiencing mum rage and couldn’t find a single book about it. What she built instead was part personal reckoning, part research project, part narrative journalism and all deeply readable. This is a conversation about what it takes to go from journalist to book author, and how the skills that serve in one world can both help and hinder in the other.</p><p>We chat about:</p><p>- How surveying 200 mothers from around the world became the foundation of Meltdown</p><p>- How Lauren used her journalism training to structure a book</p><p>- The writing routine she built around a four-year-old and a two-year-old</p><p>- Why she had to unlearn the journalist’s habit of ‘finishing things nicely’</p><p>- Why she thinks curiosity, not English skills, is the real key to writing</p><p>Whether you are working on your first big non-fiction project, wondering how to translate professional writing skills into a book, or trying to find any time at all to write around small children, this episode will give you both practical grounding and genuine reassurance. Lauren is warm, funny and very honest about where she is in her creative life right now, including the parts that are not working yet.</p><p><strong>Connect with Lauren</strong></p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/laurennovakwrites/">Lauren on Instagram</a> (https://www.instagram.com/laurennovakwrites/)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://laurennovak.com.au/">Website with survey links</a> (https://laurennovak.com.au/)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://laurennovak.com.au/meltdown/">Meltdown</a> (https://laurennovak.com.au/meltdown/)</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley"><strong>Find all Creative Momentum with Meg show notes</strong></a><strong> and interviews: </strong><a target="_blank" href="https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley"><strong>https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley</strong></a></p><p>A special thanks to Yvonne Morton for the music accompanying this episode. You can find Yvonne on <a target="_blank" href="https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/">Bandcamp</a> (<a target="_blank" href="https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/">https://yvonnemorton.bandcamp.com/</a>) and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/">Instagram</a>.(<a target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/">https://www.instagram.com/yvonne.morton/</a>)</p><p>Get full access to Musings with Meg at <a target="_blank" href="http://megdunley.substack.com/subscribe">megdunley.substack.com/subscribe</a></p> <br/><br/>Get full access to Musings with Meg at <a href="https://megdunley.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&#38;utm_campaign=CTA_4">megdunley.substack.com/subscribe</a>

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What is Creative Momentum with Meg Dunley Podcast?

Creative conversations and mindset coaching.

Creative Momentum with Meg is a podcast featuring thoughtful conversations with writers, artists, musicians and performers about creative practice, process, and what it takes to keep going.

Hosted by Meg Dunley, a creativity coach, each episode explores the rhythms of creative life—routine, doubt, momentum, rest, and persistence—with people making work across different disciplines and stages of practice. These are conversations about how creative work actually happens: not just the finished outcomes, but the habits, tensions, and questions that shape the work over time. Some episodes are short and focused, others more expansive. All are grounded in curiosity, honesty, and a belief that creative momentum is something that can be nurtured, not forced.

Episodes are released weekly and are available in both audio and video formats.

Show notes: megdunley.substack.com <br/><br/><a href="https://megdunley.substack.com/s/creative-momentum-with-meg-dunley?utm_medium=podcast">megdunley.substack.com</a>

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