Discover the Mysterious Goings On of creativity
Exploring the Mystery of Creativity
Exploring the Mystery of Creativity
Exploring the Mystery of Creativity
Where do stories actually come from? Nobody fully knows — that's the fun of it.
Join us for fresh conversations that get a little closer to the answer, one writer at a time.
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Fiction & Creativity
Exploring the Mystery of Creativity
Exploring the Mystery of Creativity
Authors and creators pull back the curtain on the choices, the instincts, the moments that turn a blank page into a story.
Celebrated Podcast
Exploring the Mystery of Creativity
Celebrated Podcast
Recognized by Apple Podcasts as New & Noteworthy, with plenty of other award nominations along the way. Since 2016, MGO has been unraveling the craft behind the mystery of creativity — one conversation at a time.
Meet the Creatives Behind the Work
Join host J. Alexander Greenwood on Mysterious Goings On, sitting down with the authors behind your favorite mysteries, sci-fi, and thrillers to talk craft: how the clues get planted, how the twist gets built without you seeing the scaffolding, and what it actually takes to make you believe the impossible.
About Our Host
Meet J. Alexander Greenwood, creator of the John Pilate Mystery Series — noir with teeth, horror with a conscience, historical fiction that actually checks its sources. He's a sought-after speaker, editor-in-chief of All the Fits That's News, and 20 years deep in podcasting, broadcasting, and social media, which is either a career or a diagnosis.
His interview rule is simple: conversations, not interrogations.
Alex gets to the humanity behind the creative person, whether that's an Oscar winner, a Grammy nominee, an Emmy winner, a New York Times or USA Today bestseller, acclaimed indie author, or someone with exactly two book sales to their name. He's a friend of writers, and it shows.
By day he works in university communications and occasionally teaches; by night he's plotting crimes on paper, which is the safer of his two jobs.
Writers & Fans Welcome
Look past the book jacket.
This is where aspiring writers, working authors, and book fans alike find out what actually happens between the blank page and the finished novel — the craft, the false starts, the stories behind the stories.
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