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Jan. 12, 2012
Advertising Jacob
Random House produces a video ad for Defending Jacob.
Tags: Defending Jacob · video
Sep. 10, 2011
How to Tell a Story
Matt Stone and Trey Parker drop in on a writing class at NYU (video).
Tags: South Park · storytelling · video · writing tips
Jun. 3, 2011
“And then I saw her…”
When I’m stuck — as I have been for some time now, trying to crack the plot of my next book, to “break” the story, as screenwriters say — I always look for older stories to use as templates. The writer David Lodge has a great term for this sort of literary model: “precursor texts” [...]
Tags: bookfour · film noir · Out of the Past · Robert Mitchum · video
May. 27, 2011
Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer!
Harlan Ellison has some choice words for those who presume writers will work for free.
Tags: Harlan Ellison · video · writing life
Mar. 22, 2011
Seth Godin: Ten Bestsellers
Seth Godin’s memorable presentation at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in February 2008: *10 Bestsellers: Using New Media, New Marketing, and New Thinking to Create 10 Bestselling Books.* (video)
Tags: bookselling · ebooks · Seth Godin · video
Feb. 16, 2011
Daniel Pink: What Motivates Us
An animation of Daniel Pink’s wonderful lecture about what really motivates creatives and other “idea workers.”
Tags: Daniel Pink · motivation · video
Jan. 6, 2011
Chinatown
Dec. 6, 2010
Darwinian Theories of Art
Are we hardwired to find certain art forms beautiful and to enjoy certain kinds of stories?
Tags: Brian Boyd · Denis Dutton · evolution · storytelling · TED talks · video
Oct. 25, 2010
Happy St. Crispin’s Day
Happy St. Crispin’s Day, which *shall ne’er go by, / From this day to the ending of the world, / But we in it shall be remember’d* [video]
Tags: Henry V · Kenneth Branagh · Shakespeare · speeches · St. Crispin's Day · video
Oct. 15, 2010
How Writers Write: Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood discusses her own writing process (video).
Tags: How Writers Write · Margaret Atwood · video
