I check in regularly at Barnes & Noble Studio to check out interviews with writers. In the interview above, noted fiction writer Ethan Canin, author of The Palace Thief, For Kings and Planets and, most recently, America, America, talks about the books that made him want to become a writer.
For me, the list includes everything [...]
I’m enjoying this creative writing master class series with children’s author Keith Gray, produced by the Scottish Book Trust. In the video above, he addresses developing characters, particularly the protagonist. One of his key points is that “character is action.” What the character does teaches readers who the character is.
Gray also has a list of [...]
Her long run on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update news desk put her in the national spotlight. Her series “30 Rock” made her a critics’ darling. And her dead-eye impression of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin catapulted her to superstardom. (It even earned her AP’s Entertainer of the Year Award.) But it’s Fey’s [...]