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This week we’re talking about writing a novel because guess what? Tom wrote a novel.

We also discuss some other guy who uses the pseudonym of Tom Reynolds, SAG name rules, the other Mark Wahlberg and maybe the most horrific episode of a game show ever thanks to Fox’s now canceled ‘Moment of Truth’.

After that’s out of the way attention is turned to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), where thousands and thousands of people around the world try to crank out a full length novel in just one month’s time. We give advice from famous writers whose names we cannot remember, talk about Stephen King’s thirst for revenge, and take a look at Amazon’s Top Ten Bestselling Books of 2012 and look at how to take elements from all of them to guarantee yourself a spot on 2014’s list.


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Writing A Novel

Debbie Millman reads from Dani Shapiro's "Still Writing: The Perils and Pleasures of a Creative Life" – more here: http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2014/06/02/dani-shapiro-design-matters-interview

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Debbie Millman reads Dani Shapiro's advice to writers

If Virginia Woolf came back to life today, what would she make of it? How would she feel about what’s happening to books, and to the reputation of her own books, and of the Bloomsbury group?  The acclaimed novelist Maggie Gee, whose thirteen previous books include The White Family, My Cleaner and My Animal Life, this month publishes her new novel, Virginia Woolf in Manhattan, which imagines what ensues when an author working in the New York Public Library becomes so passionate about Woolf that she suddenly materialises. In a conversation chaired by Anne Chisholm, biographer of Frances Partridge, the long-lived Bloomsbury diarist who remembered Woolf from her youth, Maggie Gee discusses her novel with Alexandra Harris, author of Romantic Moderns, which explores connections between some of the 20th Century’s greatest writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Eric Ravilious and John Piper, and of a short biography of Woolf. They reflect on her imaginings of both past and future, and ask what she means to readers and writers today. Is she, for women writers in particular, a hard act to follow?

We are grateful to the Royal Literary Fund for sponsoring this event, and to the Bloomsbury Hotel for supporting it.

Virginia Woolf in the 21st Century

Transcript and background: http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/09/25/william-faulkner-university-of-virginia-recording/

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William Faulkner on writing

Tarantella by "An Ghrian" (Italian traditional music)

Marco Beasley E L'Arpeggiata A Che Più L'arco Tendere

If you're going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise, don't even start.

If you're going to try, go all the way.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives,
relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.

Go all the way

It could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision, mockery, isolation.

Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance,
of how much you really want to do it.
And you'll do it.
Despite rejection and the worst odds
and it will be better than anything else you can imagine.

If you're going to try,
go all the way.

There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods
and the nights will flame with fire.

Do it, do it, do it.

Do it.

All the way
All the way.

Roll The Dice, by Charles Bukowski (feat. Tom O'Bedlam. SpokenVerse)

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Composer: Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Piece: Prelude(España, Op. 165)
Performer: Carlos Márquez

Isaac Albéniz: España Op. 165 - 1. Preludio

رجاء.

Where Do I Go

"The arrows of adverse criticism cannot scratch, let alone pierce, the shield of what disappointed archers call my 'self-assurance.'"

Background and context:  http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/01/18/vladimir-nabokov-james-mossman-interview/

Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

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Vladimir Nabokov on literature and life (1969)

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