Howdy! In between rounds of drafting, writing, revisions, I like to learn how better to write. I've compiled a list of mostly free resources which I share in blog post 7. As below, those I've utilized are marked with an asterisk. Lately, I've been leaning away from strictly how-to lessons, and listening more to author lectures that cover a wider scope. Most of these authors were pulled straight from my Goodreads "Read" list.
Free Online Author Lectures/Interviews:
Alan Moore: (Keynote) Trans- States conference 2016
*Aldous Huxley: interviewed by Mike Wallace, 1958
Alice Hoffman: Between The Covers
*Andy Weir: a Talk at Google
*Christopher Paolini: Worldbuilding, Fantasy/Sci-fi, How to plot, and Themes
*Cormac McCarthy: in conversation with David Krakauer
*David Mitchell: Melbourne Writers' Festival at the Athenaeum Theatre
Eoin Colfer: on Highfire: A Novel
*Haruki Murakami interview: BBC 45' Radio Doc Reveals Writing Methods
Holly Black: 2013 National Book Festival
*Isabel Allende: at the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing
*Isabel Allende: On Living a Literary Life
*Jonathan Safran Foer: on Ethics and Realities of Eating Things with Faces
Jonathan Stroud: Politics & Prose
*JRR Tolkien: Interview compilation
*Kazuo Ishiguro: Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 Speech
*Kurt Vonnegut: 2004 Lecture at Case Western Reserve University
Libba Bray: 2015 National Book Festival
Mark Haddon: Empathy, connection and the power of listening
*Margaret Atwood: Understanding Debt Through Literature
Matt Haig: on living with depression, social media addiction & changing the nervous planet
*Max Brooks: Speaking about WWZ to the USA Armed Forces
*Maya Angelou: One on One Interview, 1983
*Melissa Broder: Speaking on The Pisces
Natalie Goldberg: on Haiku, Writing, and Awareness
*Nick Harkaway: on Turning Ideas into Stories
*Orson Scott Card: Being Interviewed at The Red Booth
*Ottessa Moshfegh: Speaking at Kelly Writers House
Patrick Ness: 2013 National Book Festival
*Philip K. Dick: Speaking at Metz, in France, 1977
*Philip Pullman: Open University 40th Anniversary Lecture
*Ray Bradbury: at The Sixth Annual Writer's Symposium by the Sea
Robin Sloan: on Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
*Sayaka Murata: International Women’s Day, Speaking on “Gender, Sexuality & Identity”
*Stephen King: His Books, and Their Origins at Lisner Audiotorium
Sylvia Plath: Two of a Kind: Poets in Partnership
*Terry Pratchett: 'Imagination, not intelligence, made us human'
Toni Morrison: on Language, Evil and 'the White Gaze'
Tyler Wittkofsky: Finding Hope in Storytelling
V.E. Schwab: 'In Search of Doors,' Tolkien Lecture 2018
William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse
*Zadie Smith: How I Became a Best Selling Novelist
*Zadie Smith: On Being an Artist And a Citizen
I'll keep adding to this list as I locate more. Hopefully you found this helpful. Thanks for stopping by! I drop a new blog poste every Monday. Toodles!
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Howdy! I'm done editing my paranormal women's fiction novel, Soul Walker and have begun querying it. Wish me luck!
This past week I knocked out two woodburnings and began a third. I will produce more art this week, likely woodburnings. Friday I'll be selling art and books from my booth in downtown Bryan.
Hiratake Process Video
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I'm currently reading The Unbearable Lightness Of Being by Milan Kundera. It's a favorite novel of a friend, and from the title, I guessed it would offer themes of self empowerment like in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, or maybe The Alchemist. I'm 3/4 in and thus far the story is fast paced but there are low stakes and I'm not invested in a single character. The structure is unusual, in that the narrator comes off as a friend of the protagonists, while knowing personal details those characters would never have shared. Also, the story isn't just out of chronological order. It dwells on the same periods from multiple perspectives, which is popular for thrillers and higher stakes stories, but this isn't that.
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