J.R. Johnson

Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
—Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Perhaps your weekend will be spent climbing Everest or solving cold fusion, but if you plan to spend at least some time facing down a blank page in an effort to write, the following TED talks may be of some use. This collection comes to us via Aerogramme Writers’ Studio and includes a variety of topics and speakers:

1. Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
2. Isabel Allende: Tales of Passion
3. Andrew Stanton: The Clues to a Great Story
4. Lisa Bu: How Books Can Open Your Mind
5. Amy Tan: Where Does Creativity Hide?
6. Billy Collins: Everyday Moments, Caught in Time
7. Elif Shafak: The Politics of Fiction
8. Joe Sabia: The Technology of Storytelling
9. Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius
10.  Tracy Chevalier: Finding the Story Inside the Painting
11. Jarred McGinnis: Writing is the Only Magic I Still Believe In
12. Julian Friedmann: The Mystery of Storytelling
13. John Green: The Paper Town Academy

I featured #9 in a previous post but there are a dozen other talks too. A baker’s dozen. … Hmm, baking… Perhaps I’ll make something tasty to go along with the above educational material. Because, cookies. Butterscotch ripple cookies, even:)