Writers' Confessions

Just another working stiff

admin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:24 +0000

No boss, no punch clock, no office meetings, so just how do writers structure their days?

length: 2 minutes 57 seconds

featuring:
Diane Setterfield, Ronan Bennett, Colson Whitehead, Laura Elise Taylor, Wayne Johnston, Carol Off and Sarah Waters

Where do you write?

admin — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:00:27 +0000

Not since teenagers have a group of people spent so much time secluded in their rooms doing who-knows-what.

length: 3 minutes 31 seconds

featuring:
Yasmin Crowther, Janet Fitch, Adam Gopnik, Colson Whitehead, Jane Hamilton, Tom McCarthy, Alan Lightman, Wayne Johnston, and David Adams Richards

What do you do when you hit the wall?

admin — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:00:29 +0000

Just about every writer hits a point in their project where giving up and starting over on something new begins to look like an appealing option, and that’s when a hard choice has to be made.

length: 2 minutes 10 seconds

featuring:
Miriam Toews, Kristen den Hartog, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Kevin Patterson, Tim Bowling, and Judy Fong Bates

Writing for a younger audience

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:00:50 +0000

Children become readers in part because of the great books being written for children, but it isn’t easy writing great books.

length: 2 minutes 29 seconds

featuring:
Joan Barfoot, Anita Desai, John Wilson, Clem Martini, and Kenneth Oppel

The black sheep of the family

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:00:05 +0000

If you had told your family at a young age that you wanted to be a writer for a living, what reaction could you have expected? Or, If you’ve already lived through this scenario, what do you wish the reaction had been instead?

length: 2 minutes 57 seconds

featuring:
Anita Rau Badami, David Adams Richards, Charlotte Gill, Colson Whitehead, Michael Redhill, Rawi Hage, and Tom McCarthy,

The coaching staff of the literary world

admin — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 12:00:40 +0000

When you’ve taken your book as far as you can on your own it’s time to get a little (or a lot of) help from your editor.

length: 3 minutes 40 seconds

featuring:
Keith Maillard, Janet Fitch, Kate Grenville, Ami McKay, Kevin Patterson, Ronan Bennett, Andrew Taylor, Tom McCarthy, and Ania Szado