A month ago, we shared our first video series on the making of memoir, a Udemy offering that can now be found here.
This past week, we filmed a series of ten video essays all relating to the big challenges, themes, and opportunities that present themselves to those writing for the young at heart. These essays reflect the thinking I've done over the past many years on topics ranging from the question, What is excellence? in this category, to the essential truths in all fictions, to the development of authentic voices and complex characters. Some of the pieces are adapted from keynote talks; most of the material is brand new, fashioned from the challenges I've faced as a writer, from the conversations I've had with teen readers and fellow prize jury members, and from my ongoing dialogue with the leading practitioners of YA and MG.
The full suite of videos will be up on Udemy by week's end.
Today I'm sharing this single episode from the series. I'm focused on complexity here—why it is important, and how it is achieved. I hope you'll find the time to watch it through. If you like what you see, perhaps you'll share it with a friend. If you'd like to receive an update when the series goes live, you know where to find me.
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and this is one of the many things I love about Jen.
Jen's whole piece, on Hairpin, is here.
Her final words are a sweet, right challenge:
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By: Beth Kephart ,
on 6/9/2014
Blog: Beth Kephart Books (Login to Add to MyJacketFlap)
JacketFlap tags: Laurie Halse Anderson, Markus Zusak, Nina LaCour, matthew quick, Jen Doll, Reading YA, E. Lockhart, Sherman Alexie, Slate, Andrew Smith, Ruth Graham, Hairpin, Add a tag
Jen's whole piece, on Hairpin, is here.
Her final words are a sweet, right challenge:
So read, read Y.A., read adult literature, read blog posts, read magazines, read your box of Cheerios in the morning. Read all you can and want to read, acknowledging the easy and unchallenging and the difficult and complicated, and form your own opinions, trying to add a little room for nuance and understanding and openness in all that you do. That’s the best you can do as a reader, a writer, and a human.And how honored am I to have Going Over included among works by Markus Zusak, Nina LaCour, Andrew Smith, Cammie McGovern, Laurie Halse Anderson, Sherman Alexie, Aaron Hartzler, E. Lockhart, and Matthew Quick on Jen's "10 Contemporary Y.A. Books That Made Me Think (and That I Loved)."
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