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Michael Dargie interviews Corey Croft about the intersection of writing, depression, and ego.

"Let the ego shrivel up and die on the vine." In this episode, Michael Dargie sits down with Vancouver-based independent author and publisher Corey Croft for a candid conversation about writing, depression, ego, and the strange compulsion to finish terrible books. This episode is sponsored by my new book BRANDJITSU , helping you find, shape, and share your story with the world. Corey shares how his path to becoming a novelist began not with ambition, but with anxiety. During a difficult stretch marked by depression, he realized he always had "time" to write — he just wasn't using it. A community writing challenge to produce 1,000 words a day became the catalyst. What began as an experiment turned into a therapeutic practice, and eventually into a serious body of work. Writing, for Corey, became a way to confront inner chaos and shape it into narrative. The conversation moves from craft to philosophy. Corey speaks openly about ego — how it quietly sabotages artists — and the importance of humility when pursuing creative work. He reflects on literary influences like Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment , the discipline he learned from Stephen King's On Writing , and why he treats…

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