They’re told to tap into the force, write down to the bone, court the muse for all they’re worth, and if they’re lucky, the notoriously capricious muse will speak through them and bring their prose to life. Writers are often led to believe that the muse is responsible for unleashing, not to mention guiding, their creativity. I’m thrilled she’s with us today to talk about the most mercurial of all writerly imaginings: the muse itself. Since she is herself also a writer she brings not merely an analytical and intellectual perspective–though she provides that too–but the essential hands-on, insider’s view that belongs to practitioners alone.” Said the UCLA Film School Screenwriting Chairman, Richard Walter, of Lisa, “Lisa Cron is every serious writer’s dream: a source of caring, candid, capable, creative support. Lisa has also been an instructor through the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program for the last five years. Showtime) and some prestigious literary agencies (e.g. Norton and John Muir Publications) before working as a story consultant and producer for TV (e.g. Lisa knows of what she speaks, having spent a decade in the publishing industry (W.W. I’ve had the chance to peruse an advance copy of Lisa’s book, and I can tell you that it’s gold. Lisa Cron has written a fantastic new craft book for writers called Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence, available in July. Today’s guest is someone you’ll see here again.
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They left on March 10th, not knowing that Scott, Oates, Bowers and Wilson were struggling for their lives 60 miles away. They arrived at the cache on March 3rd and waited for seven days, hoping to meet the returning Polar Party. In late February 1912, Atkinson tasked Cherry Garrard and Dimitri to take a dog team and replenish One Ton Depot with dog food. Garrard was also part of the attempt to reach the South Pole, accompanying the party to the top of the Beardmore Glacier before returning, among the number, when the second support team was sent back. Ultimately the three men returned and had brought with them, three Emperor Penguin eggs, which was deemed a huge success story for the scientific aspect of the expedition. Their Winter Journey to Cape Crozier and back was one of appalling conditions and suffering, in temperatures that plummeted lower than -60º C, and most of Cherry-Garrards teeth shattered due to constant chattering. He was involved in depot laying teams, establishing a supply route for the assault on the Pole, and then in July 1911, during the harsh austral winter, he set off with Wilson and Bowers in search of unhatched Emperor Penguin eggs. Introducing Noreen into the mix of familiar neighbors changes everyone, if only a little, as they respond to her fear that she can’t love or be loved, and her longing for both. Their relationships, conveyed in convincing dialogue, inevitably entail friction as well as growth as each struggles with his or her own concerns. No matter their age, from Lynda’s young son to a sad middle-aged farmer to Dolores’s aging friend Mary, they are utterly human, often edgy and annoying, but ultimately good. But the “true confessions” are only one part of a narrative that excels at creating palpably real characters. An older neighbor, Dolores, elicits Noreen’s life story: a mother who drinks, a physically abusive stepfather, a loving older stepsister exasperated by Noreen’s selfishness, and Wesley, the kind boyfriend she’s deserted. Lynda, a café owner, takes Noreen in for the night, even though she senses the girl is trouble. When 17-year-old Noreen steals her boyfriend’s money and car, she ends up in Pembina Lake, Manitoba, stranded by a storm. Set during ten days in July, this beautifully written story explores the effect of a stranger on a small town. At the small garage they bring the truck to the trio meet Gus, the owner of the shop. Not too long after that the truck they are traveling in starts making funny noises. On the way Ben decides to pick up his tough-guy high school friend to join them on the trip. Without talking it over with his wife he packs up his son and their older dog for the trip. 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And, in the aftermath of the existential gloom of The Evenings, that’s exactly what I needed. I still dip into the books now and then, when I need something light and cuddly. Then there was the series of Discworld maps the quizbook the art book the companion guide and the three computer games ( Discworld Noir was brilliant: I’m still sad that it won’t work on current editions of Windows). This was The Colour of Magic, the first in a long line of Discworld novels that would appear for birthdays and Christmases, and which would soon become a defining feature of my teenage years. About twenty years ago, I found a secondhand book in a charity shop or at a jumble sale (it was 35p, according to the scrawled pencil inscription in the front). The sale includes Christie's beach house, a writer's retreat built for the novelist, who also drew on the island's remote setting for her novel And Then There Were None. The Beatles also stayed overnight before playing a concert in Plymouth. 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A mysterious man, Rasmus, tells Hanna the truth: her father was a powerful shaman who went into Tuonela, the Realm of the Dead, in order to barter for more life, and has been held captive by Tuoni, the God of Death. But when Hanna discovers that her father's body is missing, that's when things really get weird. Being in the enchanting land of ice and snow feels miles away from Hanna's busy life back in Los Angeles, especially under the complicated circumstances. When 24-year old Hanna Heikkinen's estranged father dies, she reluctantly makes the trip to Northern Finland for his funeral. Miller Take Hades & Persephone, transport them into twisted Nordic mythology, add in Beauty & the Beast and some Alice in Wonderland, and you get the high steam dark fantasy, River of Shadows. "Magical, witty, deliciously seductive.River of Shadows is a uniquely immersive & tantalizing journey of love and sacrifice that has you rooting for Death and his little bird." - Bestselling author Sav R. Now, twenty-five years on, biographer Andrew Morton has revisited the secret tapes he and the late princess made to reveal startling new insights into her life and mind. Never before had a senior royal spoken in such a raw, unfiltered way about her unhappy marriage, her relationship with the Queen, her extraordinary life inside the House of Windsor, her hopes, her fears, and her dreams. Greeted initially with disbelief and ridicule, the #1 New York Times bestselling biography has become a unique literary classic, not just because of its explosive contents but also because of Diana’s intimate involvement in the publication. When Diana: Her True Story was first published in 1992, it forever changed the way the public viewed the British monarchy. The sensational biography of Princess Diana, written with her cooperation and now featuring exclusive new material to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death. 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