Ancient Worlds and New Chapters with Neil Laird

About this episode

Neil Laird shares his journey of rediscovering creativity through fiction writing after a successful career in documentary filmmaking.

Blending filmmaking and fiction: Neil Laird is a veteran documentary filmmaker and television executive who rediscovered a new creative spark in midlife through writing fiction. In this episode Neil shares his journey from a small steel town in Pennsylvania to directing documentaries for the Discovery Channel and National Geographic, and eventually finding the courage to self-publish his own novels at the age of 50. Inspired by the fearless reinvention of David Bowie, Neil discusses the...

People in this episode

Host: Claire Waite Brown

Guest: Neil Laird

Topics covered

• filmmaking
• fiction writing
• midlife creativity
• documentary
• reinvention

Keywords

• creativity
• filmmaking
• fiction
• midlife
• self-publishing
• documentary
• David Bowie

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Discovery Channel, National Geographic

Places: Pennsylvania

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