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Listen "Ep. 31: Character: Jasmine Warga on Robots, Geese, Turtles and the Alchemy of Writing"
Episode Synopsis
Here are some highlights from our conversation with NYTimes-bestselling, award-winning author Jasmine Warga!:
Excavating not simply WHAT your characters want, but WHY they want it
The necessity of internal contractions
Becoming a collector of ideas and moments throughout the drafting and revision process
How images drive her plotting process
The role of alchemy in storytelling
The consistent theme at the root of her stories, and writing for our inner 10-year-olds
The art of crafting the twist
Jasmine Warga is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of middle grade novels Other Words For Home, The Shape of Thunder, A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall and A Rover’s Story. Other Words For Home earned multiple awards, including a John Newbery Honor, a Walter Honor for Young Readers, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. The Shape of Thunder was a School Library Journal and Bank Street best book of the year, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Children's and YA Book Award, and has been named to several state award reading lists. A Rover’s Story, her latest novel, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Indie Next List and a Junior Library Guild selection, and was named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post. She is also the author of young adult novel, My Heart and Other Black Holes, which has been translated into over twenty different languages. Originally from Cincinnati, she now lives in the Chicago-area with her family in a house filled with books.
Excavating not simply WHAT your characters want, but WHY they want it
The necessity of internal contractions
Becoming a collector of ideas and moments throughout the drafting and revision process
How images drive her plotting process
The role of alchemy in storytelling
The consistent theme at the root of her stories, and writing for our inner 10-year-olds
The art of crafting the twist
Jasmine Warga is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of middle grade novels Other Words For Home, The Shape of Thunder, A Strange Thing Happened in Cherry Hall and A Rover’s Story. Other Words For Home earned multiple awards, including a John Newbery Honor, a Walter Honor for Young Readers, and a Charlotte Huck Honor. The Shape of Thunder was a School Library Journal and Bank Street best book of the year, a finalist for the Barnes & Noble Children's and YA Book Award, and has been named to several state award reading lists. A Rover’s Story, her latest novel, was an instant New York Times bestseller, a Indie Next List and a Junior Library Guild selection, and was named a best book of the year by Publishers Weekly and The Washington Post. She is also the author of young adult novel, My Heart and Other Black Holes, which has been translated into over twenty different languages. Originally from Cincinnati, she now lives in the Chicago-area with her family in a house filled with books.
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