Episode 012 – Aaron Farrell | MAKE // BREAK
Welsh-born writer Aaron Farrell returns to MAKE // BREAK for a candid, high-signal conversation about discipline, identity, and creative survival. Author of The Lost and Found and the poetry collection Artbeat, The Ekphrastic Spastic, Aaron traces the path from lockdown essays and his “Violent Expression” column to an unflinching Barcelona manuscript, while reopening his work with V13. We get into stay-at-home parent realities, pandemic PPE and burnout, martial arts as a writing method, and why killing perfectionism is the only way forward. With Jung in one hand and Eastern philosophy in the other, Aaron makes a case for truthful prose, pragmatic publishing, and showing up when it’s hardest.
👀 What you’ll hear
🕰️ Chapters
00:00 Cold open and return-guest banter
00:22 Who is Aaron Farrell now and why he’s back on MAKE // BREAK
03:05 Stay-at-home dad energy, sick kids, showing up anyway
05:22 PPE reality check and pandemic life in hospitals
08:31 Barcelona move, curfews, and starting over
12:18 Transmetropolitan, Spider Jerusalem, media cynicism
16:45 Violent Expression origin, truth-telling, culture shock
22:06 Self-publishing in lockdown, first books and columns
26:24 Beat of Barcelona draft, decadence and discipline
32:48 Style over fitting in, permission to write as yourself
40:03 Breaking down, autism context, rebuilding identity
55:43 Jung, sense vs nonsense, closing notes and next time
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