We spend most of our time on this site talking about plain language and business writing. This recommendation is deliberately broader.
David Perell's YouTube channel is home to How I Write, a long-form interview podcast about the craft of writing in all its forms. Perell sits down with novelists, screenwriters, songwriters, speechwriters, comedians, journalists, and yes, business writers, and gets them to open up the bonnet on their process: how they find ideas, how they draft, how they revise, and how they think about their readers.
Why we recommend it
It covers all sorts of writing, not just plain language. Our work is about clarity, but clarity is only one ingredient of good writing. Listening to a songwriter talk about compression, or a screenwriter talk about structure, or a comedian talk about timing, will sharpen your emails and reports in ways a style guide never will. The principles travel.
It's for many people, not just people in business. If you write anything, work documents, a newsletter, fiction on the weekend, speeches, social posts, there's an episode for you. The conversations are about craft and habit, not industry. You don't need to be a professional writer to take something useful from nearly every episode.
Writers explaining their actual process is rare. Most writing advice is abstract. These conversations are concrete: real drafts, real routines, real revision habits, told by people who write for a living. It's the closest thing to sitting in the room while someone good works.
It makes writing feel less lonely. One theme comes up in episode after episode: everyone finds writing hard, including the people who are brilliant at it. The difference is what they do about it. If writing anxiety is part of your relationship with the blank page, hearing world-class writers describe the same struggle is quietly liberating.
Where to start
Browse the channel and pick a guest whose work you already enjoy; the episodes stand alone, so there's no need to go in order. Episodes are also available on the usual podcast apps if you'd rather listen than watch.
Clarity Writers has no affiliation with David Perell. We just think it's a genuinely useful, free resource for anyone who writes.