This is a special compilation devoted to a subject very close to
my heart and currently consuming a large percentage of my waking
hours: writing. Over the years, I’ve asked some of the writers I
admire most questions like: How do you choose a project and stay
with it? How do you begin when inspiration refuses to show up?
How do you build a practice that reliably produces pages? And how
do you keep going when you fear your pages are terrible? Listen
in to some of my favorite authors answer these and other
questions. Please enjoy this special compilation on the craft of
writing.
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Timestamps:
00:00 — Introduction
01:52 — Elizabeth Gilbert: Choosing and committing to a project
06:25 — Anne Lamott: Shitty first drafts and taking it bird by
bird
13:04 — Joyce Carol Oates: Don’t wait for inspiration
15:47 — Jerry Seinfeld: Building a writing system
26:27 — Mary Karr: Revision and throwing out 1,200 pages
35:08 — Brandon Sanderson: Consistency, word counts, and output
45:04 — Seth Godin: Fear of bad writing
Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of Eat, Pray,
Love; Big Magic; and City of Girls. Her ten books have sold more
than 25 million copies worldwide.
Anne Lamott is the author of 20 books, including
Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions, and Help, Thanks, Wow, and
co-author—with her husband Neal Allen—of Good Writing.
Joyce Carol Oates has written more than 70
books, including Blonde and We Were the Mulvaneys, and won the
National Book Award for her novel them.
Jerry Seinfeld co-created and starred in the
sitcom Seinfeld—which ran nine seasons and won 10 Emmys—and later
created Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee and wrote Is This
Anything?
Mary Karr wrote the bestselling memoirs The
Liars’ Club, Cherry, and Lit and her book on writing, The Art of
Memoir.
Brandon Sanderson created the Mistborn and
Stormlight Archive series, completed Robert Jordan’s Wheel of
Time, and raised more than $41 million on Kickstarter for four
secret novels.
Seth Godin has written 21 bestsellers published
in 40 languages—including Purple Cow, Linchpin, and The
Practice—and a daily blog of more than 10,000 posts.
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