The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience

How Bestselling Author Jennifer Weiner Writes: Part One


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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of 12 books, Jennifer Weiner, took a few minutes to talk with me about the writer’s life, her new memoir, and Revenge of the Nerds.

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Start getting more from your site today!Prior to her prolific career as a novelist, Ms. Weiner started out as a small town newspaper reporter and freelancer, before signing her first big book deal for her novel Good in Bed (2001).

Since then her books have spent over five years on the New York Times bestseller list, she has had a novel made into a major motion picture — In Her Shoes, starring Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette (2005) — contributed op-eds to the New York Times, executive produced a TV series, and published a children’s book (The Littlest Bigfoot).

Her latest offering is the memoir Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, and it “… is about yearning and fulfillment, loss and love, and a woman who searched for her place in the world, and found it as a storyteller.”

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In Part One of this file Jennifer Weiner and I discuss:

  • How Her Iconic Writing Mentors Joyce Carol Oates and John McPhee Helped Guide Her
  • Why Ten Years and 10,000 Hours in the Trenches Is Par for the Course
  • How Working in Busy Environments Boosts Your Productivity
  • Great Tricks to Keep the Ink Flowing, without Opening a Vein
  • The Show Notes

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    • How Bestselling Author Jennifer Weiner Writes: Part Two
    • JenniferWeiner.com
    • So you want to be a novelist? Jennifer Weiner
    • The Littlest Bigfoot – Jennifer Weiner
    • Jennifer Weiner on Twitter
    • Kelton Reid on Twitter
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