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Vidbit Writing Tip No 10 support the places where you want to publish
#Vidbit #Writing Tip No. 10 - support the places where you want to #publish - the journals, the publishing houses - you have a personal interest in their survival - buy a subscription, buy a single copy, put a couple of bucks in their tip jar, donate - buy a #book from a small press you admire
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Episode 14 of the podcast has dropped
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Episode 14 of our #podcast A Lesson before #writing dropped a few days ago. We discuss all sorts of writing-related topics. Check out twelvewinters.com and click on podcast.
"A Wintering Place" by Ted Morrissey
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I read my short story "A Wintering Place," which is included in Delta of Cassiopeia: Collected Stories and Sonnets, a finalist for the 2023 Big Other Book Award in Fiction. The story is a sequel to Mary Shelley's #Frankenstein, a novel that has been a regular source of inspiration for me. "A Wintering Place," first published in the journal Eleven Eleven, is reprinted in the paperback edition of...
A Lesson before Writing -- Episode 14
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Co-hosts Brady Harrison, Ted Morrissey and Grant Tracey discuss the relationship between the manuscript page and the printed page, experimental techniques, incorporating graphic elements with text, and other writing-related topics. The featured story is "Night Watch" by Mathew Goldberg, published in Boulevard. See twelvewinters.com/a-lesson-before-writing/ for other episodes and information abo...
A Lesson before Writing - Episode 13
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In our one-year anniversary episode we discuss the fine line between fiction and nonfiction; the need for experience to incubate before being turned into fiction; the many permutations of revisionist storytelling; and other writing-related topics. The featured story is "The Looking Glass of Arthur Gordon Pym" by Frank Meola, published in Azure, issue 5.
Vidbit Writing Tip No. 7
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#Vidbit #Writing Tip No. 7 - don't interpret rejection as evidence of a piece's shortcomings - if you believe in the #story, #poem, #essay, etc. keep sending it out until it finds a home
Vidbit Writing Tip No. 6
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#Vidbit #Writing Tip No. 6 - It's important to master the short form - the story, the single poem, essay, etc. - before tackling long-form work and whole collections. Fundamentals matter.
#Vidbit #Writing Tip No. 4
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My idol William Gass's advice for young writers was to learn not to take advice. Trust your own artistic instincts. Listening too keenly to others will only water down your work.
#Vidbit #Writing Tip No. 5
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Validation for #writers is important - it fuels the creative engine - find it through #publication of short pieces in small magazines, both in print and online.
Vidbit Writing Tip No. 3
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A #writer must understand that rejection is just a way of life & it's not a reflection on the quality of the work - believe in it & keep sending it out. tedmorrissey.com/
#Vidbit #Writing Tip No. 1 - Don't wait for inspiration
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Writers who wait for inspiration to write often don't get around to writing anything - habit is more important than inspiration - tedmorrissey.com/
#Vidbit #Writing tip No. 2 - The habit of writing
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Establish a writing habit & don't feel like you need a lot of time - writing regularly is the important thing - tedmorrissey.com/
A Lesson before Writing -- Episode 12
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In this episode, we discuss having more ideas for projects than one has time to write, and how does one decided which project to focus on; the importance of mastering the short story before attempting to write a novel; the changing marketplace for publishing fiction; unconscious influences; and more. The featured story is "Double First Cousins" by Jean Ross Justice (1924-2016), part of The Unsu...
The importance of mastering the short form
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In this video I discuss the importance of mastering short-form material before trying to write long-form projects. That is, fiction writers should master the short story before tackling a novel; poets should master the creation of an individual poem before trying to write a whole thematically organized collection; etc.
The lesson of the cave painter
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In this video I talk about the path to writing happiness (or at least contentment) and it's not necessarily the path that most writers envision, especially at the beginning of their writing journey.
Notes on Day Two of the American Literature Association Conference 2024
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Notes on Day Two of the American Literature Association Conference 2024
Notes from Day One of the American Literature Association Conference 2024
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Notes from Day One of the American Literature Association Conference 2024
You've completed your degree in writing -- now what?
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You've completed your degree in writing now what?
Welcome to the Thesis Course for the MFA in Writing
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Welcome to the Thesis Course for the MFA in Writing
The ever-changing online landscape for writers
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The ever-changing online landscape for writers
Book launch of "The Strophes of Job" by Ted Morrissey
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Book launch of "The Strophes of Job" by Ted Morrissey
A Lesson before Writing - Bonus Episode 1
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A Lesson before Writing - Bonus Episode 1
Notes on Day Two of the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
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Notes on Day Two of the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
Notes from Day One of the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
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Notes from Day One of the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture
Think of your author website as a creative project
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Think of your author website as a creative project
Do you know the reason why your video has so few views
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Nice Video❤
Helped a lot for my yr 11 assessment, thanks :)
Terrific insights Ted. Thank you!
I saw this video on Twitter and followed it over. Interesting stuff! I hope that we're getting looser on genre, too; I've never really let it inhibit what I write, but I've also noticed especially in the commercial field of publishing and promotion genre plays a tremendous role. Thanks for posting this, and I hope your reading goes well tomorrow!
Thanks for watching and commenting. Yes, in the commercial publishing world, agents and editors are very uneasy if a manuscript doesn't easily fit into a particular pigeonhole because that means bookstore managers won't know where to place a book.
I wonder how niche is experimental literature? Or, is it a thing that is just treated that way.
It's obviously not a binary: traditional narrative (whatever that means) vs. experimental narrative. Rather, it's a continuum -- and one may have touches of experimentation in an otherwise mostly traditional narrative. And of course vice versa. Thank you for watching and for posing an interesting question -- one I've only barely begun to respond to.
This was very helpful for my final exam, thank you for sharing!
What happened in the end?
Love it! Cheers from Brazil
Well done! Great to hear someone talking about Gass! And I had no idea he started The Tunnel so early. Really looking forward to hearing you talk about Omensetter's Luck and The Tunnel. Both absolutely magnificent works! Cheers.
Man I never thought anyone would notice the author photo ... but I totally get what you mean. ^.^
Following up, Professor Morrissey. I admit to avoiding videos - I'll do better! I had read about Hemingway's trick previously - I tried it, but end up more often doing what you do - leaving myself notes for the next step. I have established a writing routine of daily 20-30 minute sessions, but they are stolen wherever I can get them. I always have my commonplace journal with me - or a computer. It helps me remember that writing IS a thing in my life - and more ideas seem to be flowing this way, too!
Writing regularly is honored advice for every writer. I'm not sure I could write for only ten minutes at a time, or if it would make any sense if I tried!
CZcams knows me too well, they know that when I search for a video at 2 am I want something that will put me straight to sleep. Thank you for the lecture professor Morrissey!
I like the advice from Beth Warden, If you have an idea, write an essay; if you have a message, write a short story." The thesis statement in a creative piece could happen anytime, couldn't it? I would think that if you have a story in mind and the story has a Freitag storyline, wouldn't it have a basic message to convey, but maybe it would change sometime through the writing because rarely will a piece stick to the plan as the writer works through the project to its end. I think Brady was hitting on it.
I would have to agree with you, @simmonslcsw, about some distance between an author's political views and their writing. Heidegger comes to mind. He supported the Nazis, but his writings have changed the world of philosophy of the 21st century. I know people who, to this day, raise their noses now after finding out more about Heidegger. Presenting oneself is a dangerous game in this day and age as well. People with opinions on social media can "find"" you and then stalk you both online and in real life. On the other, as an author, you have to promote your work and want to get your work out there, and one way to do that is to have a presence on all the platforms and be everywhere. This needle that needs to be threaded is something that people make entire careers figuring out and get paid large sums of money to make happen.
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21:57 I appreciate you sharing your experience and process of how you draft with us. I also needed to hear your thoughts on how not to compare my work with that of the finished work of people who have spent months or years working on their’s. I am going to have to extend that to others students as well. I will be “stretching” my comfort zones and writing in genres I have never written before.
Amazing!
I enjoyed this quite a bit. Is this podcast available via podcast software outside of CZcams? Like Google Podcasts? One thought I had regarding author presence on social media is I prefer some distance from an author as a reader. An author's reactions to issues of the moment via Twitter can get in the way of my ability to have all sorts of fun transference. You don't want to know all your therapist's political opinions and/or see them get into social media spats. I feel similarly about authors.
Hard to take u seriously when u can’t pronounce Nabokov, Anna Karenina or Ivan Ilyich properly… and I don’t mean their Russian pronunciations… u can’t even say them properly in English.
Hmmm. I'm not finding myself too far off the mark, but I appreciate your trying to educate me.
Awesome. Great story, Laura!!
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interesting. thank you ted :)
Oh my goodness! I just realized I called my favorite Shakespeare scholar, Emma Smith, Emma Watson. Emma Watson is a wonderful actress, and she may know a lot about Shakespeare -- but I meant to say Emma Smith. Apologies to both Emmas.
I really liked your video. Nabokov also said that it was the best short story ever written, do you agree?
is there a follow up to this video i am unable to find it on your channel
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Here's a related video. In it I tell the tale of author Herman Melville and his writing of "Moby Dick": czcams.com/video/KnvM50WP3uA/video.html
It was really nice and fantastic. I learnt many things. Thanks for your captivating explanation.
thanks so much for this! I am doing revisionism for my poetry module so this is lovely !!
I allude to a debate on moral fiction between John Gardner and William H. Gass, and I say that I'll post a link to an audio recording of their debate. Here it is: drc.libraries.uc.edu/handle/2374.UC/697052
Very nice
You can hear my interview about The Artist Spoke on the 42 Minutes podcast: syncbook.syncbookradio.netdna-cdn.com/mediasfree/42Minutes353B.mp3 -- also, the online preface for the novel is available here: tedmorrissey.blog/2020/10/27/preface-to-the-artist-spoke/ .
1. How could you mention the Mary Reilly film without mentioning Julia Roberts, who played the title character?! (I say that with both laughter and defensiveness, as I'm a little bit of a fan of her brother's.) 2. Testament of Mary was released in 2014, according to Amazon. (But it must have been a year earlier, as I mentioned it in the introduction to a book I released in 2013.)
The Testament of Mary showed up in the browsing shelves at the university library I haunt, and generally those are new releases -- it fooled me.
Sure, blame it on the University, Prof. ;)