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tctpod-season1-03: Writing in the raw (with Kristen Forbes)

September 22, 2013 by yuvi

In this podcast episode, I get to talk to my good friend Kristen Forbes about writing well-crafted pieces that cover emotionally raw material. I really enjoyed speaking with her, and other than the number of times I stupidly say, “Wow!”, I’m pretty pleased with how this conversation turned out. Check out the first two links below to read the two main essays that we reference in the discussion. Also, I’m still working out minor audio issues… bear with me… Please?

Show notes:

  • I Have An Eating Disorder And No One In My Life Knows by Kristen Forbes
  • Dream Girl by Kristen Forbes
  • Quote from Sy Safransky that Kristen references 52 minutes into podcast: “I’m looking for a writer who doesn’t know where the sentence is leading her; a writer who starts with her obsessions and whose heart is bursting with love; a writer sly enough to give the slip to her secret police, the ones with the power to accuse and condemn in the blink of an eye. It’s all right that she doesn’t know what she’s thinking until she writes it, as if the words already exist somewhere and draw her to them. She may not know how she got there, but she knows when she’s arrived.”
  • Amy Butcher: Sick, I Was Always Pushing
  • Chad Simpson: Tell Everyone I Said Hi
  • Cheryl Strayed
  • Elissa Bassist
  • And this essay: Why It’s Not OK To Trash-Talk My Ex-Boyfriend
  • Kristen Forbes: her blog identity and her Twitter identity

Video inspired by the conversation

Meta links:

  • Find out more about this series (and how to subscribe)
  • Yuvi’s overview to podcasts and podcatchers
  • Download the show directly
  • Subscribe in iTunes
  • Get the podcast feed URL

Filed Under: z podcast archive Tagged With: editing, grief, interviews, literary, submitting, the-creative-turn, therapy, writing

vid001: Marinating with Joan Didion and Telaina Eriksen

August 11, 2013 by yuvi

In this video, I fixate on two cool topics that came up during my conversation with Telaina Eriksen:

  1. Writing in the moment vs. letting things marinate
  2. Putting your thoughts within the context of a particular scene

I take an under-educated stance on why Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking worked so well.

I also find a way to stick my kid’s precious stuffed animal (Shaggy the Jaguar) into the video.

Related links:

  • Complete audio conversation
  • Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

For more information about this half-baked series (and how to subscribe to it), check out The Creative Turn.

Filed Under: videos Tagged With: grief, interviews, literary, the-creative-turn, tributes, writing

tctpod-season1-01: The depressing episode (with Telaina Eriksen)

July 28, 2013 by yuvi

In this podcast episode, I get to talk to my friend Telaina Eriksen about how she is able to write about grief and loss and death in her essays. I first met Telaina in 2008 when we both were in the Antioch University low-residency MFA program. I’ve been wanting to ask her about how she gets to these difficult places in her writing for a few years now, and this so-called podcast thingy gave me the chance… Join us for this delightful romp through grief and loss and death.

Show notes:

  • Telaina’s essay about grief: Upright
  • “Dear Sprite” essay can be found in Recovering the Self, Vol III, No. 2.
  • “Incurring” in Two Hawks Quarterly
  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (FYI, this is a shameful amazon affiliate link, so if 500,000 of you buy this book, I’ll be sitting pretty…)
  • Final six minutes of Six Feet Under (SPOILERAMA!)
  • Telaina on Twitter: @TelainaE

Video inspired by the conversation

Meta links:

  • Find out more about this series (and how to subscribe)
  • Yuvi’s overview to podcasts and podcatchers
  • Download the show directly
  • Subscribe in iTunes
  • Get the podcast feed URL

Link to audio

Filed Under: z podcast archive Tagged With: depression, grief, interviews, literary, the-creative-turn, writing

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