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:
- Chimamanda Adichie: The Danger of a Single Story
- Isabel Allende: Tales of Passion
- Andrew Stanton: The Clues to a Great Story
- Lisa Bu: How Books Can Open Your Mind
- Amy Tan: Where Does Creativity Hide?
- Billy Collins: Everyday Moments, Caught in Time
- Elif Shafak: The Politics of Fiction
- Joe Sabia: The Technology of Storytelling
- Elizabeth Gilbert: Your Elusive Creative Genius
- Tracy Chevalier: Finding the Story Inside the Painting
- Jarred McGinnis: Writing is the Only Magic I Still Believe In
- Julian Friedmann: The Mystery of Storytelling
- 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:)
J.R. Johnson 