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6/30/2023 0 Comments Lisa cron's story genius![]() ![]() ![]() And we're gonna do this exercise and then when we come back we're gonna talk about, okay, what is the what if, and then we will workshop what the point is at that point. Ten something because you will have dug really deep into something in your own self that you're really looking for answers to or unsure of. Because you never end up knowing if it's gonna be published, if it's gonna be successful, but you will have got. Was working with a writer recently who said her mentor had said to her in college, when you write, go deep, write into some deep thing that you wanna probe inside yourself. ![]() It's hard, it takes a long time to write a novel and it means you're going to be digging deep into who you are. ![]() And to be vulnerable, means to be courageous. And to be personal, means to be vulnerable. You don't want it simply to be something that is conceptual or abstract. We'll be digging deeper and deeper and deeper into them. What I'd like to do now, before we get to then writing our what if is to do an exercise, and that is, to ask yourself, what's your point? Now, and to be very clear, up first what's your point and why is your story important to you? Why is making this point important? You wanna be as specific as you can. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Travels with charley book review![]() And he reflects on the American character, racial hostility, on a particular form of American loneliness he finds almost everywhere, and on the unexpected kindness of strangers that is also a very real part of our national identity. ![]() With Charley, his French poodle, Steinbeck drives the interstates and the country roads, dines with truckers, encounters bears at Yellowstone and old friends in San Francisco. ![]() A quest across America, from the northernmost tip of Maine to California's Monterey Peninsula To hear the speech of the real America, to smell the grass and the tress, to see the colors and the light-these were John Steinbeck's goals as he set out, at the age of fifty-eight, to rediscover the country he had been writing about for so many years. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments James riley story thieves series![]() ![]() ![]() Please welcome middle-grade author James Riley on the show! Reading with Your Kids is ELATED to bring to you the N ew York Times bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time and Story Thieves series, as well as many books too unwritten to count. We have a very special show for you today. Happy Thursday everyone! Thank you for joining us on this edition of the iTunes # 1 Kids & family podcast Reading With Your Kids ![]() In Conversation with James Riley, the New York Times bestselling author of the Half Upon a Time and Story Thieves Series Please click here to get your copy today. Check out The Great Martini, A fun and touching story about Sam, a lovable but far from a perfect magician who learns that the greatest transformation is transforming feelings of caring into action to help another human being. The Great Maritini, as an exclusive Amazon e-book. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Mike schur how to be perfect![]() Schur punctuates the book with real life-dilemmas, from the absurd (“Should I punch my friend in the face for no reason?“) to the complex (“Can I still enjoy great art if it was created by terrible people?”). ![]() It’s a whistle-stop tour of the main philosophical and ethical arguments of the past 2500 years: Aristotle, Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, the big names ticked off and their views summarised. So, it’s not surprising he has written a book exploring the ethics of living, boldly called How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question. ![]() Or does it? Is it ethical? Should we even care? Schur says he has always been obsessed by rules and abiding by them, so this is the sort of stuff that preoccupies him. It’s no big deal, a simple celebration of karma that causes no harm. ![]() Mike Schur, comedy writer and author, is obsessed with obeying rules. ![]() |