While inspired by the whirlwind romances in Hallmark movies, Racquel Henry knows all too well that life doesn’t always feel like a fairytale. But an unexpected diagnosis (and 92 rejections) couldn’t stop her from becoming a published author. content warning: cancer, chemo Racquel Henry and I were supposed to meet at Lineage Coffee, where we […]
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The Art and Craft of Profile Writing: An Interview with Susan Orlean It begins in a Florida swamp. It was 2015, and I was struggling to figure out how to structure a book I’d been working on for over a year; I’d interviewed 120 people about a dream come true in their life, but now I had no idea how to turn those interviews into a book. The structure I’d imagined when I started (something more like a how-to book, with anecdotes and quotes scattered throughout) no longer felt right. The book I’d set out to write wasn’t the book I was going to write. It needed to be something else, but I still had no idea what that was.
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Journalist Jonathan Landrum on failure not being an indicator of your potential. Jonathan Landrum dreamed of being a sports writer. Until the star basketball player at his high school crumpled up one of his first stories in high school. Jonathan was a sophomore at the time and had written a story for the school newspaper […]
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Oscar-winning songwriting team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez on finding their dreams and what’s even better than winning an Oscar. Today I saw the movie CoCo for the first time (spoiler alert: I cried 17 times). Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Bobby Lopez wrote the Golden-Globe and Oscar-nominated title song, “Remember Me,” for the Disney Pixar film, and I couldn’t help but smile as I watched the Golden Globes recently and caught a glimpse of them sitting in their finest at a round table with other artists I love (like the director and writer of Frozen. A few months ago I sat at a square table on my porch in San Diego, California, phone in hand, about to call Kristen and Bobby.
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Journalist Jada Yuan on why needing 17 rounds of edits doesn’t mean you’re bad at your craft. You’ve probably never heard of “Jada Yuan,” but you’ve heard of the people she’s interviewed: Steven Spielberg, Taylor Swift, Mindy Kaling, Stevie Nicks, to name a few. But she knows is not what makes Jada interesting – it’s she writes; she is one of my favorite writers. Jada is a storyteller – and I want to find out how she got so good at her craft.
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