John Green's "dream" piece of writing advice
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2018
- Rejected from a writing class in college, Green later received some key words of wisdom
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This is an advice I have heard given to writer's very often. People tend to slip back into their own ways of speaking and thinking when they write. And stories based on our own personal experiences, the ones we have pondered in our private time over and over are usually the types of stories we tell best.
I love how the interviewer is like struggling trying to take in all this insecurity.
Please include closed captions so that the information is accessible to everyone
I can transcribe it for you if you'd like.
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@@franceszapata951 Uuuh idk if the other person did the transcription so i guess I'll alt text it
John Green: When I went to Kenyon there were two fiction writing classes at the time. 'Intro to Fiction Writing' and 'Advanced Fiction Writing,' and I did not get into the 'Advanced Fiction Writing' class. It was really devastating for me.
Interviewer: It was devastating?
John Green: Yeah, there were only like 16 applicants, and there were 12 spots, so it felt really rough not to get in. And for a while after that I thought 'you know maybe-- you know if you're not one of the 12 best writers in the class at college, can you make a go of it?' And then my writing professor invited me to his home and he said "the way you write stories, it sounds like someone else, but when you tell me a story, it was very good. If you could just write the way that you tell me stories from your life, that's what you need to try to do." And that was revelatory for me, and I stopped trying to sound like I thought writers were supposed to sound like and started trying to tell stories the way I sounded like.
Interviewer: Is that a dream piece of advice? Every writer would want to hear that, 'you tell great stories, now just put pen to paper.'
John Green: And it was totally possible he was just trying to comfort me in a very difficult time of my life, but it really stuck with me.
Interviewer: You still do that, right?
John Green: Yeah, I'm still trying to do that. And I owe a lot of that P. F. Kluge
Excellent advice! I'm glad you're passing it along, John. 🙂
Both John Green and the interviewer seem as if they're on the verge of being farklempt, but in a nice and decent way, owing to the strength of their humanity. I watch a lot anime, so I can see the signs.
The interviewers are dimwitted.