August 20, 2024

Ep 25: Theme: Laurel Snyder on Maintaining an 8 year-old Brain and Creating in the Face of Capitalism

54 minutes

We're thrilled to introduce our first guest of Season 2, the brilliant author Laurel Snyder. Highlights in this episode include:

Theme bumping against character, setting, plot and more in order to find its path

Writing from the heart in a capitalist system

Writing like a cook, not a baker

Why the outline changes the minute she starts writing

The realities of loving, and envying!, authors like Kate Messner

Episode links:

Laurel's episode on the Commonplace Podcast with Rachel Zucker

The Ezra Klein Show podcast episode with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy

Laurel Snyder is the beloved author of many picture books and novels for children, including National Book Award nominee Orphan Island, the Geisel Award winner Charlie & Mouse, and the Sydney Taylor Award winner The Longest Night. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she teaches in Hamline University’s MFA in writing for children and young adults program. She lives in Atlanta with her family and can be found online at laurelsnyder.com.

IG: @ohmylorelai

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