Want to create an interactive transcript for this episode?
Podcast: Follow Your Curiosity: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Creativity.
Episode: You Cannot Mess This Up with Amy Weinland Daughters
Description: Freelance writer Amy Weinland Daughters mostly wrote about college football until she decided to try her hand at, in her words, “a hilarious time travel novel.” That novel, You Cannot Mess This Up: A True Story That Never Happened, turned out to be a catharsis, giving her a whole new look at her childhood and her family. It’s gone on to win the Silver Winner for Humor in the 2019 Foreword INDIES and the Overall Winner for Humor/Comedy in the 2020 Next Generation Indie Award.
Amy and I talk about the experience of writing about sports as a woma...