10 Minute Writer's Workshop

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A peek into how great writers conjure and craft their work. From creative rituals to guilty distractions, writers reveal what it really takes to get pen to paper.

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2 min
01/31/2018

The Last Line

After more than two years and 60 episodes, the 10 Minute Writer’s Workshop is signing off to make room for new projects and podcasts. Thanks to everybody who has listened and learned from the show. As we dream up our next undertaking, we want to hear from you aspiring writers and literature lovers out there. What sorts of things do you do to keep yourself creatively engaged? Are there exciting writerly events happening in your community? Do you lead a book club, or a writers workshop of your own? Let us know! You can reach us several ways: Send us a message on Facebook: @10MWW Twitter: @10minutewriters Or send an email to: wordofmouth@nhpr.org We’re not sure what the future holds (creativity takes time, after all!) but to hear about upcoming projects involving Virginia Prescott, follow her @Verginger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

5 min
12/27/2017

Workshop 60: Manoush Zomorodi

Some of you may know Manoush Zomorodi as host of the podcast Note to Self from WNYC. She is also, now, an author. Her book Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self came out of her own experience and curiosity about the creative process and confronting digital distractions - one of the biggest challenges for writers. She asked her audience to help her figure out what it would mean to let all of that go and to learn to shut down in order to build your creative juices up. Bored and Brilliant is the result, and it begins with an extreme case of writer’s block – what Manoush refers to as “a blankness.” Episode music by Ryan Andersen Follow us on Twitter @10MinuteWriters and find Manoush at @manoushz and @NoteToSelf Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

14 min
12/13/2017

Workshop 59: Jennifer Egan

Conventional, linear narratives are not really Jennifer Egan’s thing. She's a shape-shifter of fiction – jumping through time, space, voices and forms. She's written a graphic novel, a short story composed of tweets, and, in the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad, a kind of novel-as-concept album. Jennifer Egan takes on historical fiction in her newest novel, Manhattan Beach. We called her at her home in Brooklyn to ask about her process and how she begins her unpredictable novels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

13 min
11/29/2017

Workshop 58: Welcome to Nightvale's Jeffrey Cranor & Joseph Fink

Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, co-creators of the phenomenally popular Welcome to Nightvale podcast, the “Nightvale Presents” series of podcasts, and New York Times bestselling co-authors of the new novel, It Devours, their second book set in the fictional world of Nightvale. We caught up with them at the 2017 Boston Book Festival. Episode Music by Disparition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

14 min
11/15/2017

Workshop 57: Dan Brown

The blockbuster 2003 thriller The Da Vinci Code launched Dan Brown into the best-selling stratosphere. More than 200 million copies of his books have sold worldwide since. Three of his novels have been made into films starring tom hanks as fictional Harvard professor Robert Langdon. Brown is a disciplined writer, rising at 4am to a breakfast smoothie and "bulletproof" coffee, writing every day, and throwing himself into his research. He spent four years researching Origin, his latest novel, which again thrusts Langdon into a 24-hour scavenger hunt for keys, codes and symbols in spectacular European locations. The breathless action drives bigger questions about faith, conspiracies, and organized religion. The question of whether contemporary notions of god can withstand scientific scrutiny is at the heart of Origin. We caught up with him just before discussing the book at The Music Hall in Portsmouth for Writers on a New England Stage. Music in this episode by Gregory W. Brown, used with permission by PARMA Recordings, and Podington Bear. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

13 min
11/01/2017

Workshop 56: Speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz

For many writers, hitting their stride means finding their voice. Success for Sarah Hurwitz is in creating a voice for others. Sarah was candidate Hillary Clinton’s chief speechwriter during the 2006 Presidential primary, and was quickly snatched up by the Obama campaign team. She landed in the White House, soon being named First Lady Michelle Obama’s head speechwriter. We asked Sarah about her work and confirmed that she worked on that 2008 speech to the Democratic National Convention that was plagiarized by then candidate Trump's wife, Melania at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

13 min
10/18/2017

Workshop 55: Virginia Macgregor

Virginia Macgregor, author most recently of Wishbones, has a knack for capturing the voices of children and young adults and projecting her novels through their lenses, giving us young narrators with accurate levels of experience and naivety - and a perspective not often found in adult literature. Our conversation with her centered around that: how she conjures the voices of young people, insures they are three-dimensional, and navigates those voices around complicated adult situations. Episode music by Broke for Free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

11 min

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I would love to be a guest!

08/01/2020

Colorlessaura98

I would love to be a guest on this podcast! I love that’s it’s short and straight to the point. My latest book is still number one on Amazon. How to Teach Your Children About Racism. Looking forward to coming on. ❤️
Fantastic broadcast!

12/31/2019

Dh5673

This podcast is so informative & inspiring. Always makes my day!
Perfect!

02/28/2018

HLS6

Excellent guest list, adept interviews (no cringing here), clean production quality. This podcast is absolutely wonderful... Makes me wish for 20 minutes instead of 10. Thank you! PS. Dear NHPR, I am SO SORRY to hear this podcast has ended! Best of luck in all you do, and please don’t forget “us writers” as you plan your next project. HS 2/4/18
Really Good

11/02/2017

Glassesgal

Very short, easy to listen to, great variety of authors. One of my favorites!

A peek into how great writers conjure and craft their work. From creative rituals to guilty distractions, writers reveal what it really takes to get pen to paper.